Lay Off

Being an employer for over 10 years, today is the first time to lay off an employee! Not an office staff but a domestic helper!

She was from Indonesia! She is the second helper (the last one was left after finishing the 2-years contract) but was only worked for exactly 2 months as of today! We are no luck to have had her here, we already noticed her problem during the first week and have talked to her agent and we think that we should allow her more time to accommodate herself. However, nothing was improved and even worse and after 2 weeks observation, we immediate confirmed another maid from our former agent and planned to terminate her the day just before the new maid arrive who is expecting to come by mid April. God knows, she was even worser than we thought, we can't stand anymore but have to terminate her immediately even though we will not having a domestic helper for a whole month!

It seems that she is intended to be fired since she turn up, she is unexpectedly calm when giving her notice this morning and requiring her to leave immediately, she looks like she has been waiting long for this day (maybe for the $3.4k cash compensation)! She made us suffering from lost of some $6k and unquantifiable fearfulness and time spent for the last 2 months!

We are going to celebrate this tonight and will have dinner outside! Hahaha!

Hoping us luck for the new maid and God bless!