Over the years maids have been highly instrumental in offsetting pressure of home management off their employers.
At a point, it now becomes like a culture for you to see a maid in virtually any rich person(s) home you get to, but the fact is, their stay has been helpful in ensuring that home making is easy for their bosses.
But then the latest labeling of maids as an instrument of devilish penetration into the family has caused most employers to be super careful on who to employ as maid, causing also the employment process to go through serious scrutiny.
Howbeit, hiring a maid to stay with you or resume at your residence is a good idea, but there are certain things to be considered before you can hire one you wont regret you hired.
1. Consider a good Reference or Agency
In getting a maid, mostly in a developed society, you are meant to apply through a home management agency which basically looks into equipping and furnishing of homes with the skilled home keepers. These agencies are not just skilled to do this one work but have done it over and over and continuously for a long time. But in the same vein, if you seek to get one from your friend, or relations try get one through the right reference. When you do you won’t actually be troubled or regret his or her coming.
2. Get the ‘right’ maid
You should be careful when selecting your choice of maid. Your unavailability at home as a wife might have effect on your marriage. Some maid for instance can be seducing with all manmer of skimpy clothing and if care is not taken could take over your home completely. So in choosing a maid choose the right one so that you won’t have to regret having one later.
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3. Ask Questions
Know where she is coming from. Know what is obtainable in her place of birth and if possible, let her tell you few of her life history. Don’t feel as though everything is okay when you actually need to ask questions. Asking questions will go a long way in telling if you should go ahead to make her your choice of maid or not.
4 Faith
You have to take this into careful consideration too. Conflict do arise on the account of religious affiliation and if it is not managed properly, it can ruin your once smooth relationship with your maid in just the twinkling of an eye. It is usually good to have a maid that believe in your religion but even if that seem not to work why not hire that maid who won’t need to reside with you, then you can be less concern about her faith.
5. Accommodation
While hiring a maid, accommodation has to be considered most especially when she will be resident in your home. Of course you can’t ‘afford’ to get her a room outside your home. At times she might need to resume working as early as 4am or 5am, so making arrangement for her in your apartment might sound reasonable.
6. Think Renumeration
This should be one of your first thought. Negotiate wisely with her how much she will like to earn, putting into consideration likewise what you can afford at the time being.
7. Treat her well
No matter how much your maid earn, if you refuse to treat her well, she might just be vexed someday and vent the spleen on your innocent children. Remember, maids are human too and not an ass your children can ride on anyhow, at every slightest opportunity.
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