Not everything is good about cellphones

Can you dock the maids' pay, or do you have a contract with them? Do the cell-phones cause them to FAIL to hold up their end of the contract?

Being a maid is just like any other job... If you go to your job, you just don't randomly starting talking on your cell phone for hours, do you? I'm pretty sure your work place has some rules against that... Maid is a job... Why would you allow them to talk on their cell phone for hours on end when it has nothing to do with their work? Set some guide lines... Do some back ground check before hiring them... Having a cell phone is like anything else... Maid has an access to kitchen utensils, right? How weird does that sound if I were to tell you that I'm really concerned about my maid coming after me with a kitchen knife? Leaving a gas stove on & blowing my house up? My point is, if you're gonna worry about a maid doing something wrong, it's not limited to plotting to rob your house by using a cell phone... I do believe prevention is the key...

That is also one of my concerns as well as my sister in law's concern. The maids now have their own cellphones. And taking it away from them is not possible since they would say that it is their connection to their homes. FINE! But even if you have told them that there are only certain times during the day that they are allowed to use it, still they cling on that phone 24/7. I once saw my sister in law's maid ironing clothes. If I were to do it, i think an hour would be enough. But this maid took more than 3 hours! Why? because for every shirt she irons, she makes a call or sends text messages. Also there was an incident that a new maid arrived in the morning. I have noticed that she was holding her cellphone the whole time my sister in law was telling her the do's and don'ts. So what I did was, I told that maid the her cellphone should be kept away and only during after lunch and when she is about to go to sleep at night will she be allowed to use it. You know what happened next? She cried and said that she can't work if she would not be working with another helper in the house! Grrrr! If I was just a wicked witch, could have turned her into a frog that instant!

There should be a restriction when it comes to using cellphones. It's a distraction and at the same time the maids can be unproductive. There should be a specific time of the day when they can use it. And there should be time when they are restricted to use it. It's also discipline that you are going to teach them. :)

Hello allknowing Your concern about maids is genuine. The abuse of cellphones are upsetting the society. This very problem has started in the most households. Recently in a house of our area, a gang of miscreants has robbed of valuable belongings with the help of maid. I like to say more that effect of the cellphone on the students is negative. It is damaging their spirit of studies. They prefer to gossip with their dear one for hours. Sometimes cellphone is used as a great weapon of black mail by taking the unwanted pictures of someone.