….. can really ‘kaik sei ngor’ (can really anger me till death). Though she’s hardworking, some of the things she does can really kaik sei ngor.
She tries to be efficient by putting the dirty clothes into the washing machine whenever she sees them in the laundry basket, even if there were only a few pieces of clothes… and she put 2 full caps of laundry detergent into the washine machine with only a few pieces of clothes. Can you imagine how much suds there were in the washing machine? I even had to ask her to rinse the clothes with water again after the cycle had finished. Though I had told her to ask me first before putting any clothes into the washing machine, she had forgotten again today and did the same thing. There were so much suds inside the washing machine that some suds were seeping out from the door of the washing machine.
She removed the plug of the kettle from the wall socket when the switched was turned on.
She used the cloth that we wipe our dining table to wipe the fans and windows.
Though she’s stick-thin, she can eat like a sumo wrestler. I think her previous employer must have starved her. She’s lucky that she’s working for us coz no one ever goes hungry in our house.
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hahahahaha..shireen, now u know why my cambodia maid till now still drive me up the wall!!!!!! i should blog that as soon..hahahaha..
YES..totally agree with u, they do work SUPER DUPER SLOW! u know my maid wash two toilet (not big) for two hours!!!! That’s y now i’m like stepmom, everyday scream and shout! my mum said i like mad woman! hahahahahahaha, because the maid drive me crazy!
hahah sounds like annie’s maid!
muahahahaa….this is too funny!
Sometime maid can really drive us crazy … it’s a LUCK to get good or bad maid …. all the best to u lor … 🙂
He,he…no wonder, I always heard scolding and screaming from my neighbour when she change new maid…..
Luckily she’s just a temp.
hahaha…i dont let my maid touch the washing machine. i put my laundry in, she just take it out to hang. my sil told me not let maid touch electrical item!
my maid even worst, she removes all part of standing fan for wash, but after that cant fix it back correctly. 🙁
wei, did u explain and teach her everything when she first arrive ah? or is she just forgetful and dumb? i understand how u feel cause my ex-maid oso as stupid and dumb! really kek seri ngor. dumb and stupid nevermind, i can teach, but like cockels mouth, that i cannot tahan. that was my maid! does urs talk or ask if dont know?
is this your temp or permanent one?
Aiyoh ah, all maids is the same la. Mine last time also kek sei ngor. Yes lor talking about the food they eat, mine one also can eat the rice like a mountain and even eat more than my hub.
I have just sent my combodia maid back after working for me for 4 years. I felt a bit reluctant and sad to send her back but after thinking twice……
On the day before she left for the airport then only I found out from her that one “mak salleh” & wife neighbour had tought her how not to do too much work ((only 3 in the family and she only cleaning the double storey house. She doesn’t need to cook and look after my child at all!)), cry when you feel like it to attract attention from neighbour for help and so on so forth! Since then, she behaved very strangely for 1.5 years but my family put up with it until lately, on a few occassions we witnessed her form our cctv that she started to punch & beat herself, laughed strangely and even screaming & crying when we were not at home. Before the “mak salleh” talking to her, she performed her works orderly and happily but not after that! She started to woke up late, lazy and threw angle to my family whenever she wanted! God knows what the “mak salleh” & wife told her! Strangely, she refused to go back but wanting to work!
She told me that she would come back to Malaysia again. What I can say is good luck to her future employer and hopefully she doesn’t behave strangely until poses any danger to the new employer! One thing for sure is that she will not behave properly anymore after what the “mak salleh” had tought her! If you want to get a maid, try to get a fresh maid that has no work experience.
Susie…. what a horrible neighbor you have, instigating your maid!
I am so glad to know now that I’m not alone in this. My stress level has shot to the ceiling since hiring a cambodian maid 3 months ago. She does well when I tell her but after sometime she goes back to her old ways. she keeps saying ‘I forget’. She was about to clean the dustbin with the same green cloth used for washing the dishes before I screamed and blew my top. She left the iron on 3 times after ironing the clothes even after I told her to check after ironing. The last time she left it on it was on the ironing board and a hole was left in it!!!! She was actually rejected by her former employer and the agency pinned her on to me by saying she was a hard worker and that her former employer overworked her. Now I know why she was rejected. i want to send her back but then i pity her because she hasn’t been paid for 9 months. God is really testing my patience with this one!!!
aha, i too just got a cambodian maid after 3 unsuccessful indon maid. yes, the camb is the same. lazy and forgetful. But really eat a lot. like 3 years never eat before. ask her to think, she said her head spoil already. sometimes they are worst then indon. at least indon can understand what we are trying to tell her. this camb dunno pretend or really dont understand. phew
I’ve had my cambodian maid for a year and she still does things her way. I’m working so I’m out of the house the whole day. She takes hours to do things and I’m wondering if there is any use in getting the agent to have a pep talk to her. I thought my mistake was that she is in her thirties but sounds like “relaxed” disposition is a Cambodian trait. Really need to bear with this one.
I had recently called the cambodian trainer who trained her and the agent to my house to talk to my cambodian maid. After the talk she was doing her work well, but I knew it was too good to last. She went back to her old ways. Now, it is the same as usual. I have to keep reminding her as to what is to be done every single day. How can they be so forgetful? Today I had to remind her to scrub the plates harder when washing them because the plates were smelly even after she had washed them. Then, I had to remind her to put clothes pegs on the clothes when drying. At night I had to remind her yet again not to mix the washed clothes with the unwashed ones. Sometimes I feel like I’m going out of my mind because I have to keep reminding her about every single thing. The next time I get a maid I’m definitely going to get one with some education, and definitely not a cambodian!!!
This camb maid is my 4th maid since Feb 07 after 3 indon maid. Believe the agency taught them, if anything they didn’t do, just say forget. this is the only way to survive. Yup, she’s with me for 4 mths, till now i have to remind her everyday her duty. Else, she will just look at me if I ask her whether so does this and that. Dunno whether she really dont understand english or she just pretend. i now dont have a choice. at 8th mth pregnant, i can’t afford to do all the housework myself couple that i am full time working. I now give up on how to teach a maid. Looks like indon or camb has no difference. anyone has idea if a phillippino is better? Do they really cost RM1400 per month? Looks like most of us has problem with camb maid. Camb are relaxed.
So as indon. I have a timetable for all my maids. None of the 4 work out. only 1 whom stayed with me for 2 years (indon) worked out. I had sent the past 3 indon maid again and again to the agent for retraining, none of them work out. So, i have no intention to send this camb maid for retraining anymore. Just dunno what to do with her. The longer she works, the lazier she becomes. Notice she skipped time table quite often nowadays.
shireen, which maid agency u go to? can give me the contact no? maid agency good or not? thks
i hired cambodian maid cos agency told me they won’t run away. Maybe thats the only plus point. It’s been 1 year now, still got communication problem. They are lazy, forgetful and slow. Must keep reminding them on what to do. No use scolding cos they don’t understand. Really “waste saliva la”
Oh ! seems like Cambodian maid can really give us problems.
I’m waiting my Cambodian maid now. Can anyone here can share with me your Maid Working Schedule ?
My Cambodian maid has been with me for alomst amonth now…yes I fully agreed that Cambodians are lazy. Language barrier between employer-maid posed a major problem.
You’re rite…perhaps they’re pretending (purposely)not being able to understand English.
They eat like hungry ghost. No matter how much I give her…all finished up in within minutes.
Just wonder ..how long I could tolerate her ?
My new Cambodian maid is stupid and slow! Was in training camp for 8 months, now she tells me they didn’t teach her how to iron men’s shirts (I think she’s lying). She takes 2 hours to iron 4 shirts…no wonder she tells me she sleeps at 11.30 p.m. because she is ironing shirts. (I was wondering what’s wrong, only 4 shirts to iron and all dishes already washed and kept at 9.30 p.m. so can finish ironing by 10.10 p.m. and go to sleep??) Turns out she she mistook my instruction to put the iron dial at “number 3” i.e. cotton function (3 dots), instead she turned the dial 3 times. Somehow, the dial ended at warm function (wool) – no wonder she keep on ironing same shirt for half hour!! Stupid or not??
Then takes 3 hours to wash 3 toilets. When I asked her to wash faster, she just skip washing the wall!! Reason why I get her to wash 3 toilets at one go so that on Saturday she doesn’t have to do major housework and can rest or go out with us. Kek sei ngor!!
Washing plates – only scrub the top part, the bottom part never scrub. Somemore got cheek to tell me the bottom part oily because she put on the kitchen top which was oily (she thinks I am as stupid as her?? – the plate is not flat, it has a base and how did the oil on kitchen top get transferred to the bottom of the plate if only the base touches the kitchen top?) geram…I threaten to send her back to agency for retraining…
No sense of urgency or time management… basically, if cannot finish means no need to finish.
I so regret – if this one can’t buck up in 3 months time, I am going to get experienced Filipino – at least no communication problem and not so stupid.
i have my cambodian maid for 8th months. oh god…. really kek sei ngor.. i really go crazy when everyday i check on her work every morning. i tell her to vacumm the floor every morning , and she tell me that she sweep the floor. instead she didn’t clean the house on morning. cambodian maid is lazy and like to lying too. indon maid is better than cambodian maid. i tell her to clean window glass, 4 panel windows takes her 2 hours to clean. it is okay slow if they do clean. wah lau eh.. slow and still dirty.
i don’t know whether they dont know that is still dirty or they pretend. and i think their salary is RM600.00 p/month. as i see their working attitude is not worth that.
everyday they have execuses i forget/i dont know.. you hear this everyday..and they like to disturb you. although i have list down the daily work schedule to her, still she will come and disturb you example.. after she finish wash the cloth and hang the cloth, her next work is to clean toilet.well she will come to you and say ” mem i finish wash the cloth already i wash toilet now ok?”…. every work she complete she will come to you and report to you..i go crazy ….
i have told her not to report the work when she finish i will check myself when i free.. well she like to do what they like. keep on disturbing you…my husband is one of the victim too.. one day he gets very angry and shout very loud towards her.. and from that day she never try to disturb my husband again..
in future i will not take cambodian maid anymore… i dont want kek sei by them..
Oh .. i was feeling bad and guilty of what have happen but after reading all above letters they are all samelah… good eater , liar, pretender and lazy. I have a cambodian maid who is 4 mths old and she was send for counseling for past 3days and i don’t know what is the outcome… any suggestions?
Do u think is it a good decision to go 4 another biodata or jz go on with her ‘tolerating ‘ and kek sei ngor all the while
i oso very kek sam la…cambodian realy is stupid ,lazy,dirty,4get,hungry ghost!!!
my stupid camb ald 4 month++ wth me…when i pregnant almost baby came out she worked in my house,now my baby ald 5month jor…she stil dono how to do my baby bath water ..every days do very hot hot hot!!!!then,everytimes do the mistake is wrong she said no no no only…then lazy to bath..everydays stil need ppl asked her bath ,go bath!!!!i almost crazy!!!!this few days i check her,she got go bath ,but no take towel go inside!!i asked her use wat???she knoe but said dun understand like tat!!!then smiling a bit,go take the towel..now i know ald,y she so smelly,she used her dirty clothes to dry her body..so dirty!!everydays only do same house work ,im take care baby,she very free at home..no need to cook oso,coz she unlike wash her hand everytimes lo..then we dun wan she touch all the food…she lazy oso,asked her to cook ,saided dunno dunno!!eat a lot ….always hide inside the toilet or kitchen only..when got ppl bk home,at downstair,she go upstair,when ppl at upstair,she go downstair…nothgs to do,her hand only bring the cloth walk here walk thr only..if i scold her,said dun wan give her eat rice today,then she scared a bit la…she so clever oso,when she wan eat somethgs…wil used the sweet sound to asked me!she wan to eat ,her sound is very good 1…when i asked her to work ,she black face dun wan look at me…then do wrong !!!she got a bit something wrong 1….when who ppl come my house ,she so happy non-stop to saw tat ppl la!!!orang gila….when she start reach my house,set the alarm 6:15am to wake up 1,now 7am++ oso not saw her leh!!!coz now i feed milk ,wil go wash bottles ..then saw her inside the toilet..the light off oso,then i knock the door,she look like sleept inside la…wake up jor stil dun wan go work..haiz…now everydays when i woke up saw her i feel angry!!!!going crazy!!!coz she is a bad bad bad bad maid la….im realy regret la….i tot hire maid to takecare my baby 1….now,takecared myself lagi baik…waste money only,…camb maid dun come work la….is a damn lazy worm….everydays only know eat rice rice rice !!!!eat eat eat!!!!
I thought that I was the only one facing all these kind of problems but after reading yr post i’m kinda of relief as I’m not the alone one. My cambodian maid is also lazy, dirty and with attitude problem. After finishing her work at 9am, she’ll sit on the sofa (with her both legs on the sofa) holding the remote control and watch the TV until night. She will sleep at 9pm and wake up at 7 in the morning. At the very beginning, i closed one eye since the must-do chores has already done. But after a few weeks, her attitude is intolerable and i did speak to her nicely on the things she shouldn’t do. After that, when we asked her to do certain housework she will show her long face. There is once we saw her taking nap on our bed!! Oh no!! She even put her clothes and undergarments to wash with our clothes in the washing machine. Then the agenda continues, our money, camera, lingerie, pictures all went missing. When i called up the agency, the lady even tell me “Cambodian maid is like that lah, they all very lazy one. Their country so poor so they all wont work one”. I was like “duh” since u know the average Cambodian maid has this kind of attitude you’re still recommending me to hire one. Not only the maid pissed me off, even the maid agency too!! I wished i had read yr post earlier so that I wouldn’t hire a Cambodian maid.
My comb maid come 1 week now she 1 to go back Agency?????? I jux 1 her to clean the toilet properly Coz the wall is dirty after she clean n I already show how to wash, after I check I 1 her to clean d wall again. Dan we go out for dinner,hubby forget to take something that we return back, n she told hubby she 1 to go back agency, hubby ask y? She said her English is bad she cannot understand!!!! Hai…. Sian