After giving her the final ultimatum, looks like my Cambodian maid still did not get my message. As I am not feeling too well, I woke up late today, at around 8am. When I came downstairs, I saw my maid singing away in the wet kitchen. Everything’s not done yet – the wok after cooking yesterday’s dinner was still soaked in water, the crockpot used to boil soup yesterday was also soaked in water, soup that I had instructed her to boil was not boiled yet, she did not even defrost the meat or prepare anything that I had asked her to do. Clothes were also not put into the washing machine yet. I was really boiling when I saw this. I thought to myself that this lady is really incorrigible and I am just wasting my time and stressing myself up everyday.
She was dilly dallying in the wet kitchen and would only move her butt when I told her what to do. She should know what to do without being told as she has already been with us for more than 1 month. Later when I reminded her to steam sweet potato for the gals for breakfast, she steamed a potato instead. I had written on a piece of paper last night what she should be cooking today and instructed her to steam sweet potato. I even stuck the note on the fridge but I guess she did not read the note. This morning when I woke up, I reminded her again to steam sweet potato, yet she steamed a potato. I then told her to quickly steam the sweet potato so that the gals can have it for lunch as it was already 10am. I told her she can keep the potato and eat it for lunch. Whilst I was busy preparing breakfast for the gals, she was busy eating her potato away. I was really fuming mad.
I then called the maid agent and told him I would like to have this Cambodian maid returned to the agency to be exchanged with the Indon maid he had originally promised me. Luckily the Indon maid wasn’t assigned to another employer yet and my maid agent came to my house within half an hour with the new temp Indon maid.
When the maid agent was at my house, he asked me to brief him again my maid’s weaknesses and mistakes. After briefing him, the agent reprimanded my maid big time. We then went to the laundry room where my maid keeps her clothes and watched her pack her things. I then told the agent that this maid has been treating the laundry room like a rubbish dump as she has been keeping things that we had thrown into the dustbin in this room. All of a sudden, the unexpected happened. The agent did something to the maid which I did not expect that he would do it at my house…. right in front of me. I was really shocked, dumbfounded and for a moment, I felt bad that the agent had done it to my maid, not only once but thrice. My maid was in tears and I felt sorry for my maid. After the agent had briefed the new temp maid what to do, he left with my Cambodian maid.
Now, I have to start training my new temp Indon maid from scratch. I hate to think that just when she has gotten use to everything, she would have to leave when the new permanent maid arrives and I will have to train the new maid all over again.
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