Runaway Housemaid - An experinece to learn from!

Ha ha! Never think that such a thing would happen to me! A run away house maid after employing 3 maids! This is the worst I ever had! She had worked for us for 1year 9mths.

Came home on Sat night (14/6) after a good movie (Kungfu Panda) and a good laugh too! When I went in the house and saw the torn envelope without any house keys in it, I knew the maid must had run away! We actually planned to send her off on the next day to the airport... Now not only do we have to waste the air ticket but also might have the risk to pay the $5k... What a mess she had left! The maid left without her clothing and I read through her diary and found out that almost all of her diary entries are: 1. Need to keep long hair 2. Need to have a hand phone 3. Need to pray! These are those things the maids are not supposed to have! Wonder what kind of training the centre has given them and do the agents remind them of those "Don ts"?

Brought in the new maid from another agent on 15/6. She seemed to look fine and work fine. Wouldn't know her true self as it has been only 3 days. However, as she had been working in Indonesia as a housemaid for 2 years, roughly she knew what to do, is just that she needs to follow our way of doing things.

Hopefully, this maid does not give us problem and does not request as much as the previous one!

(The runaway maid was at the Embassy and was persuaded to go back home as we already cancelled her work permit from 11/6. Finally we had to pay for her air ticket again and some admin fee to send her luggage to the embassy together with her salary. I even top up a little more on her salary. Does she have any consideration for us? All she wants is the above 3 points: Long hair, hand phone & pray).