I want to share my experience (very long), I just terminated a Fillipino domestic helper last month, Myrna ? Ledda, aged 43 from Hundred Years Employment Services in Mongkok, I believe she worked together with the agency to earn money. That agency side on its domestic helpers in an very abnormal manners.
That maid was terminated by her ex-employer after 2 month service but I really need to maid to take care of my children urgently and I think she is a mother of 3 children and worked in a family with children. However, after employing her, my children and I got very tough experience.
May be due to her age or her mission to get one-month payment in lieu of notice and the agency earn agency fee, she is very very stubborn (when she made mistakes and I wanted to explain to her, she used to use both her hands to cover her ears and said too many things - very simple things, very confusing, I know la, I am not new la, you teach me like a child, I already in Hong Kong in 1995 (backed home after one contract) and did many impossible things at my home. In fact, I decided to terminate her after 1.5 month service. During her employment period, she just wanted to sit, lied down, chat and laughed over phone. When she changed my bed sheets, she could simply put my quilts on other beds in my children's bedrooms was ok, however, she said she needed to walk few times (just few steps from one bedroom to another bedroom), she moved the chair from my son's bedroom to bedroom to board the entrance from morning to evening, until I backed home after work still the same.
Liked to answered back severely. A Filippino staff of that agency told me that the maid was good at cooking, however, her cooking skill is very poor, even I gave her instructions, she sometimes only cooked one simple dish (fried vegetable with meat), still said she was very busy.
The most worst thing was that she used FISTS to treat my children and showed she wanted to hit them. She also liked to speak their language to scold my children. When I asked her why she used fists to treat my children, she still laughed. Very terrible.
Though she is a mother of 3 children, and one of her previous jobs needed to take care of children (but after she reported duty that I knew her mum is a full time mother and their grandmother was lives with them.
I do not know due to her age or not, she almost needs to sit down to do anything, ironing (even one piece of t-shirt), drying dishes, hanging clothes (when I asked her to hang clothes, she liked to sit down, touched her sole, then clipped and hung our clothes), as she worked very slowly and intentionally waste gas, electricity, water and food, so the consumption of electricity increased about 55%, water increased abt 155% and gas for bathing only, more than $900 during her employment period.
She also does not want to bring lunch to school for my child and bring her to attend tutorial class though those places are very near to our home. That agency - Hundred Years even said we have a lot of work, bring lunch to school (30 mins round trip) made the maid tired. Bring her to attend activity class not only downstairs, needed few minutes also interrupted the maid's work. Some of their maids only needed to bring children to take school bus only. How an agency could say those rubbish. That Ms Yu really covered her heart to say those words. What we need is a domestic helpers to take care of our children, bring them to school, activity class, etc.
That Fillipino domestic helper's age / experience / gust may enable her to do many terrible things.
I communicated with that agency numerous times about that maid's very poor behaviouir and performance, that agency suggested me giving the maid a happy ending. She told me "you go home to tell her you will release her very soon, she may be happy and change her attitude." Anybody can guarantee what will happen if I give her notice of termination.
That agency only wants to make use of domestic helper, they want to have more time to find a new employer for her and earn agency fee again, they want to have more time
I terimated that horribe woman in the presence of security guards, otherwise, she may create many stories to enable her to have longer time to stay in Hong Kong or get me into trouble.
I think many mothers in BK got tough experience with their domestic helpers and the unfair govt policy, but what can solve the problems, many of us really need a helper so that we can go out to work and there is insufficient service / affordable fee to take care of children.
Over 40, may not have energy to run after 2 young children. Also she is very impolite and impatient to u on the phone. She may have forgotten how to cook Chinese food already and the agent may be just lying for her.
I will not recommend hiring her.
Over 30 or 35 is ok, over 40....no way.
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喜洋洋
thanks for sharing, I've already rejected her :D
發表於 11-6-9 11:47
其實仲有大把激氣嘢, 不能盡錄!!
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