What Should I Pay........

[Snuffy]

What should I pay a young lady to work in my home 6 days a week from 8-6. What is the rate these days. Thanks.

[helpmann]

Originally Posted by Snuffy

What should I pay a young lady to work in my home 6 days a week from 8-6. What is the rate these days. Thanks.

What kind of work will this young lady be doing?

-Helpmann

[Snuffy]

Housekeeper and Nanny. Some cooking.

[nyteryda3]

I am currently living in a 3-bedroom apartment(fairly large) and my roomates and I pay $2000 pesos(total) a month for our maid to come in 3 days a week to mainly clean and some light cooking.

[Eddy]

Originally Posted by Snuffy

What should I pay a young lady to work in my home 6 days a week from 8-6. What is the rate these days. Thanks.

Between 4,500 and 5,000 per month. Maybe a little extra for her transportation.

[Snuffy]

Eddy...I was thinking 5000 also. However, I currently pay her 4000 pesos. That is the rate my wife's friends quoted her. Only I have a problem with it. I think it is not enough. If I can get this girl up to speed where I want her then I will increase it to 5000. I want someone who will come in and they know what their job is and they do it without me having to point out discrepancies all the time. So far I have not achieved this. She refuses to think for herself. I told me wife, I'm not paying someone that I have to supervise all the time. She uses her brain or she goes.

[mountainfrog]

Originally Posted by Snuffy

... She uses her brain or she goes.

She'll choose the latter.
Other would be 'muy incómodo'....

m'frog

[Hillbilly]

Problem is, Snuffy, is that you know more about how to do her job than she does..andyou want her to do it like you would do it if you were to do it!!

Be patient. Buy her three or four uniforms. don't yell at her, (I know you too well to think that you would) and repeat it three times. After that, you can tell her that she is on the way out.

Good luck....remember the Chinese serving dishes i bought? Well, one got burned recently...what was it? Three months ago?? That/s life here, unfortunately. That is why i don't bring down any of my antique stuff....

Bless you for being so nice..

HB

[Chris]

Originally Posted by Snuffy

I want someone who will come in and they know what their job is and they do it without me having to point out discrepancies all the time. So far I have not achieved this. She refuses to think for herself. I told me wife, I'm not paying someone that I have to supervise all the time. She uses her brain or she goes.

Repeat three times, the Hillbilly says. Ha!

Snuffy, I sympathise ... some things you're going to have to accept, and other things you're going to have to hide. These are the things that I've not managed to teach to the person who cleans for us...

- not to splash buckets of water over the walls - splashing water does not clean, elbow grease and scrubbing cleans
- bleach is not meant to be splashed all over the wash
- it is not necessary to use more washing power when the bag is full, and less when the bag becomes empty.
- kitchen knives are for specific purposes. Steak knives are not meant to have the little sharp points bent over, there are other ways to open a can
- the knife thing is a problem - knives are not all purpose tools, and I get really mad if you clean the grout between the tiles with my vegetable paring knife
- floors can be mopped without standing puddles of water
- teflon pans are not meant to be scraped clean with a teaspoon
- the kid does not need that goo stuff all over her hair
- our food is good to eat - there is other food besides rice and beans
- it is valid to serve coffee in big cups with milk and sugar
- sugar is not meant to go in fruit juice
- no, we are not going to clean the bathrooms with acid

So, I've come to terms with the splashing water thing, but I hide the bleach. The good knives and utensils are locked away. I don't use the teflon pans. The goo stuff for hair is banished (yes, she does still bring some for the kid but the kid is now big enough to scream and run when the goo jar comes out). Sugar is rationed. I've been partially successful with the coffee - it now comes in a big cup, with un chin sweet coffee in the bottom of the big cup.

My next effort is the linen closet. I'm going to try to get the sheets, the towels and the tablecloths separated. It's a real drag to have to scratch between the tablecloths to find a towel. One should just be able to lift one up from the top of the pile? No?

[canadian bob]

Over the years we have hired/fired numbers of maids, they all had their own idiosyncracies. We were most considerate, gifts of clothes, food to take home etc. We have a clothes washer (maid NO Toca!) which eliminates the detergent/bleach problem. We learned that salads are universally disliked by maids. One who liked to do a bit of garden work (& was terrified of our whipper-snipper,) insisted on using a colleen (machete) & refused to use my garden trowels, etc. Be gentle.... we live in a different world!! Good luck... Canadian Bob