My mother treats her maid too good, I always think my mum is crazy, she:
1) let the maid wash all her clothes in the same washing machine everyday
2) install TV in the maid's room, the maid switch on TV from 9am-12am non-stop and hide inside her room always. Even ask her to come out to work, she pretends she can't listen
3) she cooks 1 full big cooking bowl rice (enough for 8-10 persons to eat), but she only needs to cook 4-5 persons portion. The leftover will be given to our neighbour's maid who does not have enough food to eat from that maid's employer
4) give her $200 to buy 1 dinner for 3-5 persons, and $300 for 6-8 persons meal. The maid normally use more than that.
5) talk over the phone for at least 5 hours per day, even when cooking.
6) she said she loves my dog, but even if my dog calls her to pickup poo, she would disregard, until she hang up the phone (which is after 1 hr)
7) turn on all the air con at home when you are not at home. This has been discovered by us a few times (we felt air con breeze when we got home; we saw her quickly turned off the air con as she did not expect we came home early; my bro's maid told us that my mum's maid taught her to turn on all air-con at home when no one's here). My parent's electricity bill (only 2 persons+1 maid) is $1800 per month in summer! My parents are not at home from 9am-7pm everyday (except Sat and Sun).
Whenever I tell my mum the maid cheats on her, my mum would scold me. Employer MUST control the habit and behaviour of the maid.
NEVER treat your maid too good (i.e. don't let her wash her clothes in washing machine and watch TV). Just treat her as an employee, not your family member.
Agreed to Suneo:
"我初初想她會悶給她一些娛樂,但是我好後悔,因為印印真的沒有良心,你給她小小娛樂她就會得寸進尺的,我的印印就是咁不只看電視不照顧我的兒子還買劇集dvd回來看."