New Maid is Here

The "agent" (not really an agent) mentioned in my previous post did bring over a maid this evening at about 5 pm. I thought if it turns out to a NO-SHOW, I would have to go to the Community Center tomorrow to get one...which I kinda dread as their list of maids available generally worked for ang-moh expats. And you know lah...work for ang-moh, where can work for us??? They are soooooo spoilt. My friend's maid live-out, work from 8 till 5 pm. So she ends up cooking dinner and cleaning-up. Now she is saying that she wants to have a live-in, but don't want to UPSET anybody... And yes. She is ang-moh. And these ang-moh maids  get paid waaaaaay much more than the "normal" maids. This other ang-moh friend also spoils her maid...pays her USD 150/-, lets her husband stays in her house..maid doesn't cook. Only clean the house and her laundry, i.e. laundry for ONE person. Don't work weekends summore. So lah..you say spoilt or not?? Definitely CANNOT employ one of these lah... 

I won't call myself a slave driver...but really cannot tolerate the ang-moh maids.

Errr... I don't mean maids that are ang-mohs...but maids that work for ang-mohs...

Back to my maid.....As the norm, the maid came with all her stuff....ready to start STRAIGHT AWAY. The "agent" did tell her the key items prior to our meeting, i.e. her pay, off-days, jack-of-all-trades duty, her being the only maid, the requirement to cook and cut pork etc. Her experience? Apparently worked for a local/HK Chinese family...that had 12 employees working under the roof!!!!  Then, for a Malaysian family up till Xmas... So will see....

Didn't ask her to do any task this evening, except that she tidy up her own room and stuff. Will start training her tomorrow morning. She looks okay (as if looks are any indications??!?!?!!!!! :-P )...... So far, she's certainly does look better than the one that came for interview on Friday afternoon. 

This other one ah....Call me discriminative, but the headgear kinda put me off already. I had a stool in the kitchen, and she just sat on it without being invited to. She didn't want to tell me her last paid salary, and wanted to have more than USD 100/month...which I wasn't willing to give as a starting salary. With the headgear, off course I asked if she was willing to cut/cook pork, and she said NO. So no need to discuss further lah...but she still was rather persistent to ask how much I was willing to pay her if NOT USD 100. 

Anyway,...hopefully this one works out. Re - cooking pork? She said she can cook but I'll have to do the taste-testing. Alamak! Of course, I don't expect her to taste lah.... The "agent" was still there, and was like encouraging her to just estimate on the flavorings...NO NEED to taste lah.... Aiya! With her so new, I definitely will not leave her to do the cooking just yet!

Wish me luck...