01.17.07
How to Have the Best Maid
This is part of the series:
- The Ideal Maid
- Why isn’t Your Current Maid Perfect?
- Why Is My Maid So Bad?
- How to Have the Best Maid
- What do You Want From Your Maid?
- Laundry and the Maid - not
- How Often Do I Need A Maid?
- What Kind of Maid -
Cleaning Services? - Which Maid to Hire - The Family Service?
- Which Maid to Hire?
- Networking Your Way To A New Maid
- Maid Contest from Lysol
- Nannies are Not Maids
- The Interview For A New Maid
- Salary for the New Maid
- Cleaning Supplies for the New Maid
- The Maid and Her Mop
- Cleaning Fluids
- Preparing For The Maid’s Arrival
- It’s Important Not to Let Your Kids Torture the Maid
- Training the Maid
- Trash and the Maid
- Does a Maid Destroy Your Child’s Character?
- Potty Talk - Cleaning the Bathroom
- Rules for the Maid
- Penni’s Story
- Cleaning the Bedroom
- Is My Maid Stealing?
- More Trash and the Maid
- A Welcoming Bathroom
- Another Dee Story - Children Terrorizing the Maid
Should I adopt one of her kids or sign over my paycheck?
Your goal is to get your house clean, without having everything in it thrown out or hidden, preferably at an affordable cost.
You’re going to give very precise, written instructions that can be translated by her friend and be checked by the two of you together, for every room in your home. You are only going to obsess about one or two rooms a visit. (If you have a small apartment, it will only be about one or two chores a visit.)
You’re going to make choices about where you really want your maid to spend her time. Were you asking her to do the laundry just to ensure that she stayed a minimum number of hours or do you really hate laundry? Maybe it’s just the folding you hate.
You’re going to do your best to make your maid worth twice as much an hour. With luck, you’ll be able to convince your friends that your maid is worth more so that your maid gets rid of 2 clients for every new client she takes on.
This last point is a stretch. She might be tempted to dump the person she likes the least, but to give up two people and only get one is scary. It makes her more vulnerable to terminations and she may feel its more important to bring more money home than to spend more time with her kids – even if one of her employers is only paying half as much as everyone else.
