Maids…. are they a help or a pain in your neck?

My current maid of 1.5 years is my 5th maid in less than 5 years. All my previous maids were fired by me before they finished their 2-year contract. I wonder if my current maid will survive the 2-year contract period or not.

Suliah, my current maid is generally an acceptable maid with fairly good work attitude and is diligent. However, she doesn’t like to be corrected of her mistakes. She loves to do work her way, not my way. Each time I correct her mistakes or the way she does her work, she will put on a sour face or let out a sigh. I’ve chided her a few times before. This morning, as she was carrying the garbage from the kitchen to the front of our house to dispose them, I noticed some stinky water dripping out from the garbage bag all the way from the kitchen to the hall. When I asked her to mop the floor, she let out a big grunt, hhhhiiii….yyyahhhh……. as if to tell me “you fussy lady boss”. Trivial matter like this really spoils my day and I always ask myself why am I paying close to a thousand ringgit a month just to stomach someone’s nonsense.

Suliah’s contract will be expiring in December this year. I am still in a dilemma whether to extend her contract or just be done and over with live-in maids for the rest of my life. Maids…. you can’t live with one, yet you can’t live without one.

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Author: Shireen

I am a WFHM of 3 lovely girls - Alycia, Sherilyn and Cassandra. I am a health, fitness and clean freak. I am a freelance content writer and occasionally help out my other half in his food catering business. I also do product reviews and accept sponsored posts on my blogs. I hope you'll enjoy reading my blog as much as I enjoy sharing my day-to-day adventures and mostly boring ranting :P Welcome to my blog! :)

3 thoughts on “Maids…. are they a help or a pain in your neck?”

  1. maids ah? got also headache, no also headache. I’m in the same dilemma as you. This is my 4th maid in 5 years span, she’s ok, but she’s a little KPC and m MIL doesn’t like her. So no way to extend. Now I have phobia about my new maid which will arrive end of next month.

    I wish to live without a maid…. but that will be another 2 years I suppose

  2. I do agree. Can’t live with them and can’t live without them. Mine is 3rd maid in 2.5yrs.I guess all indon maids like to do things their way and think that we are either fussy or stupid. My maid used to grumble whenever my MIL tells her off and I told her not to be rude and just be quiet as she’s an old lady. I guess she’s already used to my MIL already. Whenever MIL said something, she’ll just be quiet. When we r being nice to them, they climb on ur head. When we bully them, they’ll take revenge on us.Hai…..

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