| I also fired my confinement lady after 4 days which I think is far too long as well! My baby was premature, so the original confinement lady couldn't make it straight away, so they sent a replacement. This lady would sleep through the night (and day) and forget to feed the baby. I didn't say anything since she was only with me for 2 days before the original one came.
Then the one I hired arrived. From the moment she stepped in, she would ask me for things like soap, shampoo etc. for her personal use every 30 mins, my husband asked her to write a list of all the things she needed so that we could get it for her once and for all instead of me getting up every 30 mins to serve her and she said it was too difficult to do that since she did not know what else she would need!
I asked her to give me a menu for the whole week so that I could translate all the ingredients and give the list to my maid to get all the food in the market for her, again she said that it was too troublesome to do that, which I had no idea why that was! I told her to try since I didn't want to have to translate every meal for the next.
The last straw came when she asked me what she was eating that night (she asks me every meal and I tell her the same thing everytime ' you can eat whatever you like from the kitchen'). That night, I told her the same thing and she said there was nothing to eat, so I asked my maid why she didn't get anything for the lady (I specifically asked my maid to have some meat and veg for her since she was bothering me all the time), and my maid said that she gave her some chicken, veg and rice and she didn't want it.
I asked her if it was true, then she complained that my maid bought frozen chicken for her, to which I asked what was wrong with that? Then she said she didn't like choi sum or bak choi and she will be fine just eating plain rice (in the most sarcastic voice you can imagine). She went on and on and on and I tried to calm her, but she just wouldn't stop, so I told her that I didn't want to argue with her anymore and asked her to leave my room. She then banged EVERY door and stamped her feet all the way back. I was totally shocked.
After 5 minutes, she came back to my room and said that she need to change the diapers for my baby, and was really rough handling her, so I said, forget it, I will do it myself. AGain, she stomped out and banged the doors. I was really worried that with her temper, she might just throw my baby on the floor or something in order to vent, so I asked her to leave immediately.
I too gave her a huge deposit and the really amazing thing was, her agent called repeatedly afterwards and asked me to settle the balance. I was so mad, so I told her that not only will I NOT settle the balance (since she only worked for 4 days and I have paid them 50% which was 13 days), I will sue them if they pester me anymore (since I became sick as soon as she left!!). Luckily they didn't call me again.
Rani, can I post the name of the agency here? Anyway, the confinement lady was called Chu Wai Lan, short (around 4 ft) and in her late 40s or early 50s.  |