for people who are very keen on hiring maids especially indonesian maids, the issue on the maid's wages that had been seriously discussed and scrutinized before must have been the most interesting topic for them, and so it did to my aunt. from this source, i learned that the Indonesia had actually asked for a minimum of RM800! FYI, even if i earn RM3000 net, i also wont agree on that because its just too much! for 800 u could hire one more maid and u shoud be entitled for 5-star service if u were to waste 800 on a hardly-could-do-house-chores maids!
ok, indonesians who come here hunting for jobs will mostly work as maids, since no Malaysian wants to do the job anymore. however, not all of them are well-trained for the job since many of them have never come to Malaysia, and too bad they first step in Malaysia to work as maid.maybe some of them are good in house chores when they were in indonesia, but different countries require different things. even different employers in one same country will look for different qualities for maid. too bad many maids who have become experts in serving households after 5 years of service, they wouldnt want to stay and serve any longer since they have earned too much that it's enough for them to last the whole lifetime (that's if they know how to manage the money) like what had happened to one of my aunt's maid. as u know, Malaysia RM is of bigger value than Indonesian rupiah, that is for 32 cents u will get 1000 rupiah. here, for 32 cents, u could only buy sweets, sms, and thats the minimum we could go but on the other hand, for 1000 rupiah, u could buy two pieces of kuihs.thats how big the difference is. u could feed ur stomach with 32 cents value in Indonesia when in Malaysia, for two pieces of kuihs, the minimum is 40 cents! kuih no more cost u 20 cents per piece like when i was in primary school!
so, then they leave us with fresh maids who know nothing and sometimes, refuse to learn and catch up things fast to improve and most of the time, this is what happens but of course both the employers and employees have to bear with the situation and just wait for the contract to end (the minimum is a year) so that both parties wont see each other's face anymore.
i'm currently at my aunt's house and i'm staying here for the next 9 killing days! okshe has just got her maid replaced since the previous one had gone back to her hometown and she officially ended her service on 6th of November..
well, she's the third whom i know and now, here's the fourth one. hahaha. the first one is the one we love the most because she's very good. bear in mind, she had been working with my aunt for 7 years! thats why she becomes so good in the house chores and she could do almost anything and please anybody and anyone in the house, even us, the relatives. and of course the attitude counts in too and she is the perfect maid and the best my aunt have got all this while.
when she is leaving, i wonder whether we could ever meet anyone like her anymore and turns out, it's really hard to find her duplicate, exactly like her. she is very sensitive with the guests and she will entertain the guests at her best.
when i came to the house, she will cook for me even if i'm the only one eating and she will serve me. of course i'm not expecting 5-star service but at least, give me food since i'm a guest and of course i cant go there and cook just like at my own house.
so, when i go there, i expect her to serve me food, whatever it is and i can do the cleaning afterwards.i dont mind because i'm a girl and i'm not that lazy to clean and do the dishes since she had cooked for me.
however, things are really different with the new maids and the first one who was hired after her, she is really a kid, she knows nothing and she talked back at my aunt if my aunt complained at her.my aunt, though she is one strict and vocal woman, she became restless with this very one maid. she got frustrated that she wouldnt want to say much anymore.then, the contract ends (i'm surprised this kid lasts for 2 years after nothing worthwhile she had done) and the new maid is someone recommended by a good friend and she's actually a relative of the friend's husband. the problem with this one is she was really slow in picking up instructions and she always did things wrongly. part of it is the language barrier, since she speaks pure Bugis and she couldn't understand BM much. so, there goes another painful yet hilarious year for my aunt.
my first encounter with her ended hilariously.i came to the house to pick up some things one weekday and i left a message, telling her to tell my aunt that i have stopped by. fortunately, i felt like texting my aunt telling her about my stopping-by and i did. the other day, i came to the house and my aunt asked me this.
"what did u tell her that day when u came to the house?"
well, i was kind of curious with that kind of question. i said, "i told her to tell u that i stop by. why?"
my aunt giggled and replied, " u know, she told me that u told her to cook because u r coming back to eat with some other friends."
i gasped. "oh my. i didnt say that because of course i'm not coming back!"
she laughed. "yeah, lucky thing u texted me informing me about that. when she told me that, i had this in my mind, "she must have understood my niece wrongly" and that was what actually happened. she understood ur words wrongly."
oh my, thats bad and not to my surprise, thats not the only situation relating to misunderstanding when it concerned her and my aunt's instructions. there's one more story about Maggi Mee and Maggi chicken cube.
one fine day, she briefed my aunt about the kitchen's provision that need top-up and one of them is Maggi cube. my aunt had told her many times, that is MAGGI CUBE, its cube!
unfortunately, she told my aunt, she needs MAGGI. u know what maggi for Malaysian means of course! it means Maggi mee! and she added, chicken. so, my aunt took it as chicken flavour Maggi mee and the maid wanted 3! at that point of time, my aunt did wonder why would she want this much when as my aunt knows well that her children dont favour that flavour much. can u imagine what my aunt bought responding to the request? she bought 3x5 packets of chicken flavour maggi mee and the maid, upon seeing so many maggi mee raised her eyebrows.
my aunt asked, "is this not what u want?"
she shooked her head. "no. it's this one." and during that time, she was clever enough to show her sample of CHICKEN FLAVOUR MAGGI MEE and turned out, its the cube that she wanted.
oh dear. then my aunt knew from that time onwards, she cant believe whatever comes out from her mouth anymore without actually seeing it. hahahaha. and my aunt was worried of how would her children eat all the maggi mee and finish them all.
when she told me this story, my big bro and i who were visiting her just couldnt stop laughing and i wonder what else will come up after that and of course there are series of hilarious stories that i couldn't recall all of them anymore.
she was partly ok but she was homesick and for the first few weeks, she cried at night and i pity her but i know, its good that she was earning for her family and i salute her for that and of course she served the family better than the previous maid though she did got injected by 'false' stories by the previous maid who had kindly 'briefed' her about how horrible life was with my aunt. how bad. and i cant believe i let her stepped on me by instructing me to do this and that when she were around. oh, how i regret that!
and now, here's the new one, and she is here for not even a month yet and she has got no problem with understanding us and i believe, she is better in many ways than the previous two.of course she is not perfect since this is the first house and she couldnt wait to go home after a year of contract with my aunt since she is married with 4 children. i asked her about the salary and its 450 and for me, thats already quite a lot for them. if u convert 450 per month, u'll get approximately 1, 406, 250 rupiah and thats heaven!
hell a lot and i dont see why cant they make do with it and thats for only a month. since my aunt is very kind, she wouldnt take even a portion of the salary for the maid's food, health care, clothing, and all basic living neccessities while she is here and the 450 goes for her family net.
like i said before, if the maid knows well how to manage the money, she could get more from it, like what the perfect maid did. she bought a piece of land using the money she had accumulated from her monthly wages and from what we heard, she is now a millionaire as she owned and worked the piece of land now. how nice. but she deserves it after 7 years of serving loyally to the family and how i missed her and the good days. muahaha.
i have got another story about 'happy' maids but i guess i will reserve that for later. i've already written much and this will do for today.
again, if u r looking for maids, pray hard so that the maids dont have boyfriends, friends, relatives, or anyone here in Malaysia cause that could be very dangerous, referring to all the mischieve caused by maids with 'company' here. haha.
p/s: hire phillipines. thats what chinese do nowadays since the religion is the same.but for muslim? hmm, this is one big dilemma.sigh~
ok, indonesians who come here hunting for jobs will mostly work as maids, since no Malaysian wants to do the job anymore. however, not all of them are well-trained for the job since many of them have never come to Malaysia, and too bad they first step in Malaysia to work as maid.maybe some of them are good in house chores when they were in indonesia, but different countries require different things. even different employers in one same country will look for different qualities for maid. too bad many maids who have become experts in serving households after 5 years of service, they wouldnt want to stay and serve any longer since they have earned too much that it's enough for them to last the whole lifetime (that's if they know how to manage the money) like what had happened to one of my aunt's maid. as u know, Malaysia RM is of bigger value than Indonesian rupiah, that is for 32 cents u will get 1000 rupiah. here, for 32 cents, u could only buy sweets, sms, and thats the minimum we could go but on the other hand, for 1000 rupiah, u could buy two pieces of kuihs.thats how big the difference is. u could feed ur stomach with 32 cents value in Indonesia when in Malaysia, for two pieces of kuihs, the minimum is 40 cents! kuih no more cost u 20 cents per piece like when i was in primary school!
so, then they leave us with fresh maids who know nothing and sometimes, refuse to learn and catch up things fast to improve and most of the time, this is what happens but of course both the employers and employees have to bear with the situation and just wait for the contract to end (the minimum is a year) so that both parties wont see each other's face anymore.
i'm currently at my aunt's house and i'm staying here for the next 9 killing days! okshe has just got her maid replaced since the previous one had gone back to her hometown and she officially ended her service on 6th of November..
well, she's the third whom i know and now, here's the fourth one. hahaha. the first one is the one we love the most because she's very good. bear in mind, she had been working with my aunt for 7 years! thats why she becomes so good in the house chores and she could do almost anything and please anybody and anyone in the house, even us, the relatives. and of course the attitude counts in too and she is the perfect maid and the best my aunt have got all this while.
when she is leaving, i wonder whether we could ever meet anyone like her anymore and turns out, it's really hard to find her duplicate, exactly like her. she is very sensitive with the guests and she will entertain the guests at her best.
when i came to the house, she will cook for me even if i'm the only one eating and she will serve me. of course i'm not expecting 5-star service but at least, give me food since i'm a guest and of course i cant go there and cook just like at my own house.
so, when i go there, i expect her to serve me food, whatever it is and i can do the cleaning afterwards.i dont mind because i'm a girl and i'm not that lazy to clean and do the dishes since she had cooked for me.
however, things are really different with the new maids and the first one who was hired after her, she is really a kid, she knows nothing and she talked back at my aunt if my aunt complained at her.my aunt, though she is one strict and vocal woman, she became restless with this very one maid. she got frustrated that she wouldnt want to say much anymore.then, the contract ends (i'm surprised this kid lasts for 2 years after nothing worthwhile she had done) and the new maid is someone recommended by a good friend and she's actually a relative of the friend's husband. the problem with this one is she was really slow in picking up instructions and she always did things wrongly. part of it is the language barrier, since she speaks pure Bugis and she couldn't understand BM much. so, there goes another painful yet hilarious year for my aunt.
my first encounter with her ended hilariously.i came to the house to pick up some things one weekday and i left a message, telling her to tell my aunt that i have stopped by. fortunately, i felt like texting my aunt telling her about my stopping-by and i did. the other day, i came to the house and my aunt asked me this.
"what did u tell her that day when u came to the house?"
well, i was kind of curious with that kind of question. i said, "i told her to tell u that i stop by. why?"
my aunt giggled and replied, " u know, she told me that u told her to cook because u r coming back to eat with some other friends."
i gasped. "oh my. i didnt say that because of course i'm not coming back!"
she laughed. "yeah, lucky thing u texted me informing me about that. when she told me that, i had this in my mind, "she must have understood my niece wrongly" and that was what actually happened. she understood ur words wrongly."
oh my, thats bad and not to my surprise, thats not the only situation relating to misunderstanding when it concerned her and my aunt's instructions. there's one more story about Maggi Mee and Maggi chicken cube.
one fine day, she briefed my aunt about the kitchen's provision that need top-up and one of them is Maggi cube. my aunt had told her many times, that is MAGGI CUBE, its cube!
unfortunately, she told my aunt, she needs MAGGI. u know what maggi for Malaysian means of course! it means Maggi mee! and she added, chicken. so, my aunt took it as chicken flavour Maggi mee and the maid wanted 3! at that point of time, my aunt did wonder why would she want this much when as my aunt knows well that her children dont favour that flavour much. can u imagine what my aunt bought responding to the request? she bought 3x5 packets of chicken flavour maggi mee and the maid, upon seeing so many maggi mee raised her eyebrows.
my aunt asked, "is this not what u want?"
she shooked her head. "no. it's this one." and during that time, she was clever enough to show her sample of CHICKEN FLAVOUR MAGGI MEE and turned out, its the cube that she wanted.
oh dear. then my aunt knew from that time onwards, she cant believe whatever comes out from her mouth anymore without actually seeing it. hahahaha. and my aunt was worried of how would her children eat all the maggi mee and finish them all.
when she told me this story, my big bro and i who were visiting her just couldnt stop laughing and i wonder what else will come up after that and of course there are series of hilarious stories that i couldn't recall all of them anymore.
she was partly ok but she was homesick and for the first few weeks, she cried at night and i pity her but i know, its good that she was earning for her family and i salute her for that and of course she served the family better than the previous maid though she did got injected by 'false' stories by the previous maid who had kindly 'briefed' her about how horrible life was with my aunt. how bad. and i cant believe i let her stepped on me by instructing me to do this and that when she were around. oh, how i regret that!
and now, here's the new one, and she is here for not even a month yet and she has got no problem with understanding us and i believe, she is better in many ways than the previous two.of course she is not perfect since this is the first house and she couldnt wait to go home after a year of contract with my aunt since she is married with 4 children. i asked her about the salary and its 450 and for me, thats already quite a lot for them. if u convert 450 per month, u'll get approximately 1, 406, 250 rupiah and thats heaven!
hell a lot and i dont see why cant they make do with it and thats for only a month. since my aunt is very kind, she wouldnt take even a portion of the salary for the maid's food, health care, clothing, and all basic living neccessities while she is here and the 450 goes for her family net.
like i said before, if the maid knows well how to manage the money, she could get more from it, like what the perfect maid did. she bought a piece of land using the money she had accumulated from her monthly wages and from what we heard, she is now a millionaire as she owned and worked the piece of land now. how nice. but she deserves it after 7 years of serving loyally to the family and how i missed her and the good days. muahaha.
i have got another story about 'happy' maids but i guess i will reserve that for later. i've already written much and this will do for today.
again, if u r looking for maids, pray hard so that the maids dont have boyfriends, friends, relatives, or anyone here in Malaysia cause that could be very dangerous, referring to all the mischieve caused by maids with 'company' here. haha.
p/s: hire phillipines. thats what chinese do nowadays since the religion is the same.but for muslim? hmm, this is one big dilemma.sigh~
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