My mum and I have just discovered one of the reasons why our Cambodian maid is super slow in her work. Can you beat it that she takes more than 2 hours to clean our bedrooms upstairs everyday? Well, my mum found out why yesterday. Yesterday, my mum read an exercise book that my maid keeps to write her English and Cambodian words. In the book were pages full of stories that she has copied from my kids’ story books and electronic story book. She must have spent a lot of time copying the entire story book into her exercise book when she is upstairs cleaning the room or when we leave her at home in the morning when I bring Sherilyn out for a walk.
Last week, we were all searching high and low for the Snow White story book that my mum had bought for the gals from Ipoh. We asked our maid if she had seen it but she said no and pretended to look for it under the bed and everywhere. The next day, she told us that she found the book behind a plastic cabinet in my mum’s room and we believed her. I am now wondering if she had the intention of keeping the story book coz there is no reason why the story book would be behind the plastic cabinet. Also, this is the story book that she had copied the entire story into her exercise book. She must have thought that we would not notice it as my gals have too many story books. I am also now believing that she also had the intention of keeping my bedroom slippers when I found it behind the sewing machine in the laundry room. This is where she puts her bag and belongings. When I asked her why she kept my slippers there, she just gave me her usual silly smile.
I hardly have the time to go upstairs to supervise her when she cleans the room. I guess I have to spot check her from today onwards.
This Cambodian maid sleeps at 12 – 12:30am almost everyday. My former maid could go to bed by 10:30pm -11pm. Just before going to bed, this Cambodian maid would go into the laundry room and close the door, thinking that I will not see it as I would be upstairs putting the gals to bed. I always wonder what she does inside the room and sleep so late at night. The agent has told her explicitly that she cannot close the room door when she works. When I asked her why she closed the door, she just gave me her silly smile again.
I was beginning to have pity on her and have told her not to help me prepare the kids for bed and I have also reduced some of the household chores. After this discovery this morning, I don’t think I will have pity on her anymore. With my previous maid, I need not have to do much work but with this maid whom I have to pay more than double for her salary, I even have to do more work myself and stress myself up. If I were not having a 3rd baby soon, I will really consider doing without a live-in maid but it looks like I now have to hire a live-in maid for at least another 4 more years.
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