Maid ran away

I don't hv such an experience but I used to work with maids. One possible reason cld be that she found it difficult to adapt to a new environment. Another reason cld be that she missed her family. Yet another reason cld be that she felt that she had overworked. (It's a matter of perception; you may not hv made your maid work too hard but she might have perceived it to be so.)

Maybe your maid has been so tired and she can't handle anymore the pressure in your home. :) But you can hire another one and try to train her again coz you don't have any choice. I know an online site where you can look for maid hong kong. They will provide you with a maid to help you at home. At http://www.helperchoice.com/maid_hong_kong.php

Maybe she was feeling lonely. We also had a lot of househelps before and well no one really ran away but some stayed as short as 2 days lol... there was a time my middle child was only a year-old i was looking for a nanny for him because i was going back to school and this house help was employed..lol.. i am nice to her actually butaafter a day she left because she cannot stand how hyper my son is!

There are many reasons which she maybe can't say to you. Example she found an other owner who pay her higher than you etc... You shouldn't worry about this. You should look for a new one.

Sorry to hear that ,dream.and i don't think i can give you any conducive suggestions because my family and me have not ever hire any maids . To my mind , the wage of the average in America is not so bad .Thus ,money may account for the flight of your maid . yet i am not sure about that . You had better aske someone who once had hired maids.

I have my share of maid stories. Thankfully most of my maids usually last one year before they tell me that they want to go home. The longest maid I have so far lasted for two years. Most of the maids want to go back working for me but I always keep a distance since I reason out that once you said goodbye then thats final. Most of them say goodbye when I need them the most and after that bad experience you can say that I am once burn and twice shy about such scenario.

Could it be possible someone in your family mistreated or attempted to mistreat the maid? I have seen instances where people somehow assumed their maid (whethre live-in or not) was to be a slave. I once did live-in babysitting and remember family (though pleased with me) had some relatives who constantly flicted with me and I detested the disrespect. The family was thrilled with me, but even though husband and wife noticed misconduct by relatives said nothing. I simply packed my stuff on my day off and walked to them and said good-bye. The two children cried and I felt sorry, but I had to protect my dignity. Some people can be very thoughtless. I think it very stupid for anyone, especially domestic employer, to mistreat a help. Help always have so much power, and I am always sorry for people who do not see this and mistreat domestic help.

Hi, dream_ozn. I have never been in this situation before at all. We have never had a maid that we have had to hire to clean our home. It is very strange that she just ran off without given your mom prior notice. My only guess is that she did not want to work or she just was scared of the responsibilities of working. Whatever the case may be, it would have been much reasonable for her to just tell your mother that she has decided to quit, rather than just running away. Maybe she was ashamed to tell your mother that she no longer want to work as a maid at her house. I am so sorry that this has happened though, and I hope that it does not happen again.

yeah we have had this experience before and the bad thing is she is our cousin. its really sad because we havent done anything bad towards her it just that she decided to run away with her boyfriend. she didnt even inform us or gave us a heads up that she would be leaving really soon then perhaps we could have understood her better and explain everything to her parents. but no she opted to leave without any notice and it hass left us to guess what could be the reason why. then after a week its dishearthening to hear that she did it because of her boyfriend. im not against their relationship but im just against the way she has treated us after all the good things that we have done to her and her family. i just hope that in the end she would realize her mistake and humble herself and ask for forgiveness especially from my mom.

Could be a number of reasons and one can be coincidental that it happened again in such a short time. What you mother has to do is reevaluate on how the situations were going at the time she had both of them. Is there something there that perhaps caused them to leave in such a short time? For instance, was it a lot of work and not enough money? Was it that they were not treated well? Is your mother hiring maids who perhaps have a lot of their own issues and cannot fulfill and or commit to work? It could very well be they are not maid material and did not like the work as it just seems too soon to be leaving. Maybe if you mother takes her time on interviewing and reference checking the next applicants she maybe able to get someone suitable who would not mind staying long term. Good luck with this.

Usually maid ran away because of simple reason. They are being maltreated by their master. They might not be physically abuse but verbal abuse. My big brother once a maid from a godmother of our mom. He wasn't physically abuse. But he always receive a bad remarks. He is not doing good and all that stuff. So what he did. He confront the godmother of my mom together with my mom so that would be total of 3. And settle all things and left the house.

I hope you don't get offended by this comment but you can afford a maid? WOW....I personally don't know anyone who has employed a maid. I also find it rather strange that 2 of your maids just left without any notice.

Yes, I have such an experience. My maid ran away after he stole money from my fathers wallet. It is the fault of my dad since he left his wallet in the pants pocket. Our maid was doing laundry one day and that day she got the money from my fathers wallet. She asked permission from us if she could buy something in the market. We did not know that she was already running away bringing with her my fathers money.

Not having been in a situation where I had the means to hire a maid, all I can think of is that if you are going through staff so quickly, you may want to look at how they are being treated. You may not think you had treated her poorly, but what do you consider ill-treated, and what did she?

I don’t have such of an experience but my former classmate in high school does have a house helper who ran-away and she only served them for quite a short of a time. Probably such instances occur most especially when such house maid is still a fresh worker on such job position and she can’t handle home sickness. Another reason instance is that they fall in love with a guy over your neighborhood and the guy is asking your house helper to be with him resulting that she’d ran-away from her masters. Well, despite such workers it’s glad that she ran-away without bad assumptions because some house maid will run away and then they will steal things from you. Glad you didn’t experience such runaways.