Housemaid complaining

about me on Facebook!

Things have been strained since she came back from her holidays, which I understand and am trying to be considerate of the fact that she is unsettled, I can't imagine living apart from my kids and family like she does and it must be so painful leaving them each year.

However, she is so forgetful, really doesn't care about her job, which has meant that I have had to highlight a few mistakes that she has made (same mistakes over and over) plus there are things she overlooks that I need to remind her about. On the other hand, she gets plenty of thank you's and compliments also and regular bonuses when there has been extra workload (visitors, floods, etc).

On FB, she is calling me out as mean and that I am picking on her and not understanding that everyone makes mistakes, (written in English on her FB !) although nothing to mention that she is making the same mistake over and over again and generally not doing her job to an acceptable standard.

We are extremely generous to her, she earns a basic salary of 3k a month and extras usually bring it close to 4k. We are also very generous to her family. She has plenty of free time and not a heavy workload, although she tends to be pretty inefficient with managing her time, but I overlook how she manages her time and let her get on with it,.

She is posting messages on FB about end of contract gratuity, i.e if she leaves expecting 1 additional month of salary per year of contract. She already gets an annual gratuity of one month salary, so end of contract gratuity will only be at our discretion, unless it is made compulsory before her contract ends.

We all complain about our jobs and bosses at times, so it doesn't really bother me from that perspective, and to be honest I don't really care what she thinks of me, my conscience is 100% clear and I know I have been a very good employer to her. The fact is, she is doing her job below standard, so I don't feel unjust at all telling her that.

However, I do not like her calling me names in public, especially that my kids are friends of hers on FB. I guess the reason it is in English is for my kids benefit, which infuriates me. My kids adore her.

Help me decide whether to confront her about it ! to my face she is all sweetness, so she is being quite two-faced. I am tempted to not even bother telling her I know about it, as my health is not the greatest at the moment, so I don't need the stress, but on the other hand maybe I do need to let her know that it is not on and is actually a sackable offence in most jobs.

Overall, she is an okay housemaid, not fantastic but not useless either and I would have renewed her contract for another year (could be our last year) She has been with us a few years, and each year renewing her was the easier option than looking for someone new, as we never know how much longer we will be here.

Should I confront her or shouldn't I?