Comments on: Maid Help!

By: McB1

McB1 — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:19:34 +0000

Marina,
I had a similar situation, have a househelp who helps me with shopping, occasionally cooking, light housekeeping, plays with my 2 yr old for maybe an hour. she works 3-4 days per week. she is paid excessively well from what i have seen everyone else post. we went out of town and I didn't want to pay her for not working so I had her come 2 days a week to do some housekeeping. I didn't want to confuse things by paying for 2 weeks now and calling it vacation when she will expect it later too. Now my problem is I have decided that I want to let her go in December. She started in July so we will be right at the 6 months mark. I was thinking of giving her 2 weeks vacaction from Dec 15 – Dec 30th with pay and then 2 weeks bonus. Which equals basically a month of pay. does this sound like reasonable?and should I still get all of this in writing with her? I wanted to do everything at one time…vacation. bonus and termination? will that work?

will probably hire another person when we return at end of January for just morning housekeeping 3 days a week. we also have a maid 2 days a week as part of our rent.

Marian

By: elgordo

elgordo — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:19:05 +0000

I wouldn't need stilts or a pole, you are the type of person that spends a lot of time of his knees.

By: mike

mike — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:12:39 +0000

Q & A, if you are being sarcastic, your not funny, if you aren't, I would be glad to slit your throat !

By: Benjamin Barnett

Benjamin Barnett — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:10:34 +0000

Good idea, Mark. We drew up papers with her working hours and pay when she started and it's been useful on a couple of occasions.

By: Benjamin Barnett

Benjamin Barnett — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:09:27 +0000

You may want to check into the vacation thing, since she's part-time…but giving her vacation even if she isn't necessarily entitled to it can't do much harm, I think

By: marina K. Villatoro

marina K. Villatoro — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:07:15 +0000

Hi Mark,

I'm a bit nervous of doing this before I leave. I think I will do it once I come back. She's too simple and will freak out thinking I'm firing her. However, I am planning on doing a contract with her for sure.

By: Benjamin Barnett

Benjamin Barnett — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:06:57 +0000

LOL how did all this degenerate into throat-slitting? Mark brings out the best in us

By: marina K. Villatoro

marina K. Villatoro — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:06:02 +0000

Hi Benjamin!

This sounds doable. So basically, I'm going with the law.
I'm defeinitely not going to give her ideas to work elsewhere:)

By: Q&A

Q&A — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:02:36 +0000

mmmmm. . . . if I was to have my throat slit, would you be doing this yourself or would you be waiting for a group of friends to egg you on? Will the knife be attached to a log pole or would you be standing on stilts?

By: elgordo

elgordo — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:50:56 +0000

I am sure you're being facetious. You would have surely had your throat slit by now if you did any of your funny deductions, which are probably illegal. Funny guy.