I think so.
A colleague of mine just hired a maid. This is her first time. The maid's too.
For the past one month, she spent time training the maid, her children and whoever that's involved in her household.
I would say, she spent too much time.
Recently at work, every half an hour, she would be on the phone with her maid.
She's either instructing her maid to run some errands or trying to check on her, or her children. I'm not kidding abt the 'every half an hour'.
If I'm her boss, I will gladly give her a warning letter, but that's another story.
Anyway, today she was calling her maid several times in the morning since 11am and could not get her. She was so pissed. She then asked her sister in law's maid to check on her maid (they stay in the same block) and found that her maid had actually brought her daughter downstairs to wait for the school bus - half an hour earlier than bus arrival time. She was so worked up that she scolded her maid loudly.
She shouted at her maid for going downstairs earlier than scheduled - her maid was supposed to bring her daughter to wait for the bus 5-10 mins before bus arrival.
She accused her maid of talking to other maids - she told us she's worried that her maid will be led astray by the 'seasoned' ones.
She kept shouting and shouting and shouting.
"Who give you money? I ask you who give you money?"
"M'am give you money! You should listen to M'am!"
"Why did you listen to my daughter? She give you money? She give you money?"
"I ask you who is the boss?"
Seriously, I wouldn't care two hoots abt her family affair. But she was affecting my concentration at work as I was sitting just behind her.
Later in the afternoon, she found out that her maid overcooked some food and served it to her son. Her picky son threw tantrums and decided not to eat.
Of course, my colleague hit the roof.
She shouted at her maid again.
"Why did you kasi (give) didi black black food?"
"Huh? Why?! I ask you why?!"
"I told you the food is supposed to be cooked for yourself, not for didi. Why did you cook and kasi didi? And why you cook until black black and kasi didi?"
"Who give you money? You want to listen to who?"
"M'am tell you..." blah blah blah
After she hung up, my other colleagues and I started to persuade her not to be so nitty gritty towards her maid. I told her that maybe, there was some misunderstanding due to the language barrier and a different cultural background.
But my colleague got angry and she insisted that since she used a trustworthy online translator, her maid should understand what she was trying to tell her.
I explained to her that sometimes, a different culture may mean that even the same words bring a different meaning.
She got so fucking pissed she told my manager (who happened to be lurking around our area of conversation) that I was siding with her maid.
I was like WTF?!?!?!
Then she gave me a very angry smug look by getting my manager's support that her translation was correct.
Seriously, I felt like telling her to just quit the job and go home and take care of her kids.
C'mon! She spends much of her time calling her maid, her kids, her husband, etc etc at work. She tells people she has God's grace for not needing to work overtime.
When her maid just arrived, she even wanted to throw away her maid's clothes and buy her new ones. Cos' she thinks that her maid's clothes might be dirty, and she thinks that buying new ones can make up for that.
Of course, we told her that it's cruel. Later on, she decided not to do it.
Now, look at her. She's behaving like a mad and childish woman. Can't believe she's married with 2 kids and 32 yrs old.
If she has God's grace, I seriously think God is either too busy with work, or he is getting senile.
Anyway, a link for you to know abit abt 'maid training' here...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6kqvZx1Bzw
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