It’s the 3rd week she’s with us now and I have been telling myself to be patient, patient and more patient with her but I’ve had it. I’m exhausting myself and risking my pregnancy just because of her incompetence and ‘blurness’. I can still accept the bizarre things that she does but I just can’t stand the way she works – so terribly slow and her blurness. She even walks slow. When she first came, I thought she hurt her legs and had to slouch and walk slowly but now, I realize that it’s the way she walks – so slow like an old grandmother.
With my former maid, though she was really sociable and had problems with boyfriends, her work was really good. I need not lift my fingers much to do housework. With this slow coach Cambodian maid, I have to do many things myself. If I weren’t pregnant, I would not really mind but with my ultra sensitive uterus that’s contracting and tightening most of the time, doing all these chores, especially bathing the kids (which is quite a back-breaking task) is really torturous.
Just a moment ago, she made Alycia puke – the third time in 2 weeks. She doesn’t seem to know how to brush Alycia’s teeth. Each time she touches Alycia’s mouth with the hanky or toothbrush, Alycia would puke. I’ve told her not to brush Alycia’s teeth but that forgetful lady forgot again. I was busy cleaning up Sherilyn and preparing her for bed in the bathroom in my room when I heard Alycia puking in the bathroom outside my room. The entire bathroom floor was filled with her vomit and my blur maid just stood there looking lost and blur. I then told my maid to clean up the mess on the floor and to quickly wash Alycia up. When I went out minutes later to check on her, the blur lady was walking from room to room searching for something with poor Alycia naked in the bathroom. I asked her what she was doing and she told me she was looking for some papers to wipe the vomit. When she said that, I was really pissed off with her. I told her that she could have just used water to wash off the vomit since it’s on the bathroom floor. That silly girl then used the bathroom brush / broom to sweep the vomit! Of course the vomit got stuck to the broom. I was just seething with anger looking at her. I wanted to show her how to wash off the vomit but poor Alycia was naked and had vomit all over her body and Sherilyn was telling me she wanted to poo poo…. oh what an opportune time to want to poo poo when I have already washed her up all clean and put her pjs on. In the end, I dragged both gals into my room – put Sher on the toilet to poo poo whilst I cleaned Alycia up. I hate washing them up coz I had to squat and squatting down means squeezing my big belly and that causes more tightenings on my belly.
That’s not it, as I am typing this post, my careless maid has just broken a ceramic spoon in the kitchen. She has also forgotten to turn off the shower in the bathroom upstairs and I have just reminded her to go upstairs to turn it off. How can I just go to sleep in peace every night? I can only pray that my new permanent maid will arrive very soon and that she will be much much better than this blur and slow coach.
I hope I am not boring you with my maid stories everyday but she’s really affecting my life. I guess I should be thankful that at least I still have a maid, albeit a blur and super slow one to help me out.
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adoi…maybe she’s from a very ulu kampung, that’s why she doesn’t know how to do many of the housechores. like what you said in your other blog where she threw the porkribs bones on the kitchen floor, i think it’s a habit she got used to.
ya, slow coach is better than havin no maid at all. close one eye, don’t stress yourself too much. how’s ya chinese new year? hope you had a great one.
i know it sucks big time…add a little more patience, it’s hard without a helper.
is it her first time to work as a maid?
I feel sorry for her. She probably knows that you’re mad or upset with her. I’m sure it’s frustrating for you but she must not know how to do everything.
Pardon me..your girls still can’t take bath by themselves..and Sherilyn still needs you to clean her up to get ready for bed? This may be a good time to have them to help themselves more…particular in view of your current situation… I am sure they are old enough to understand..if you give them the chance..
sorry to hear that 🙁 she does look kinda blur 🙂 don’t over stressed yourself. hopefully with your mum here these few days, you can have a bit of rest.
Lizzy… you let your toddlers bathe themselves with no supervision? My gals are only 4 yo & almost 3 yo. Wouldn’t that be too young to ask them bathe themselves and clean themselves up with no supervision? Aly & Sher know how to brush teeth themselves. I help them brush the inner part.
so frustrating I know to have such maid, but just be patient for the new maid to come, this won’t last long… hope & pray!
I understand you and I also have a bad experience with my previous maid. Anyway just close one eye and let it be la cos with your big belly, don’t stress so much ah.
Hang in there Shireen, i know how u feel, because i also got one at home and mine is permenant and is not temp. I know many ppl ask me to change a new maid, but it will took forever to replace a new one, and additional charges. With the new maid, have to train her from the very beginning again, and have to get her to get along with the boys again. *sigh*, i told myself, just nag nag nag and sometime close one eyes, get the things done myself, just get her to do the housework, at least got someone to boil the soup and clean the house for me. After two years, sent her home and i don’t wan to hv anymore maid.
Sometimes i wonder is all cambodian maid is all like that? Blur and do things super slow? Like u said, they walk also super duper slow! *faint*
haha, I have been following your maid stories diligently but never comment. Looks like your maid really cekik darah ….my maid going to be with us for 8 months has not improve much either. Extremely bodoh till I can vomit blood. I just tell myself to “yan” , bodoh is better than cunning… at least I got some help to relieve me
Aiyo……sending lotsa bear hugs over….