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Latest post on 10 January 2011 - 14:13

My maids cousin, who works for our friends, ran away yesterday as well!! I had written to the wife and told her to check her mobile ph (which they never did) for any clues as to yani's whereabouts, and to let us question yani's cousin as we were sure she knew where she was - which they never did. I had also warned her that her maid would eventually do the same thing to her and to never keep her out of her sight and not leave her child alone with her. Well she popped out to the shops yesterday leaving her son alone with the maid. She came back to find her 2 year old alone, screaming and no sign of the maid! This was definately arranged and planned. I hope to find them both and deport them with a ban!!

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Latest post on 11 January 2011 - 13:46

Don't know why anyone would EVER EVER leave their kid with a maid or even let the maid have ANY responsibility with the child. Freaking crazy. Because some of us [b'>NEED[/b'> to work long hours so we can feed our children. Not all of us can stay at home with our children, please stop judging if you have no idea!!! That's what nannies are for... You are right!!! I have the nanny/maid version, so I felt offended!!! I said MAID not a maid with nanny qualifications and evidenced experience! If you leave your kid with a maid with no proper evidenced experience cause you work long hours then employ a nanny or change jobs. Leaving your kid with a maid who just happens to have her own kids is ridiculous and I wouldn't risk the safety of mine for anything. I'd rather be poor in a dead end job then put them at risk. And the op's friend who left her kids with a woman who was worried her maid would harm the kids if she spoke to her about the op's missing maid - WTF? I wouldn't want to have friends like that I'm afraid. A maid CLEANS. You want someone to look after your kids? Get a NANNY or a maid that is PROPERLY qualified. Honestly Must be nice to life in this [b'>LALALA WORLD OF YOURS[/b'>, what do I have to do to get in???

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EW NEWBIE

Latest post on 11 January 2011 - 13:43

Don't know why anyone would EVER EVER leave their kid with a maid or even let the maid have ANY responsibility with the child. Freaking crazy. A person does not need any training or qualification to ensure that she would not walk out and leave a small child unattended - what's required it's human decency and compassion and it's a sad world if you can't trust people to have that. So are you saying that parents, relatives, friends etc with whom people in any country would leave their children should have qualifications as a nanny or otherwise not be trusted? Millions of grandmothers and aunties look after the next generation all over the world, Most mothers don't have any training or experience themselves when they have children! I certainly didn't. We're not talking about employing people to teach foundation one at home to young children when we employ nannies. All that is expected is a heart, some common sense and keeping the child fed, warm and happy and with very young children they are probably better in their own homes than in nurseries. Working mums carry enough on their shoulders without an extra guilt trip. Thank you so much, this is exactly my opinion!

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Latest post on 11 January 2011 - 13:14

Don't know why anyone would EVER EVER leave their kid with a maid or even let the maid have ANY responsibility with the child. Freaking crazy. A person does not need any training or qualification to ensure that she would not walk out and leave a small child unattended - what's required it's human decency and compassion and it's a sad world if you can't trust people to have that. So are you saying that parents, relatives, friends etc with whom people in any country would leave their children should have qualifications as a nanny or otherwise not be trusted? Millions of grandmothers and aunties look after the next generation all over the world, Most mothers don't have any training or experience themselves when they have children! I certainly didn't. We're not talking about employing people to teach foundation one at home to young children when we employ nannies. All that is expected is a heart, some common sense and keeping the child fed, warm and happy and with very young children they are probably better in their own homes than in nurseries. Working mums carry enough on their shoulders without an extra guilt trip.

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EW NEWBIE

Latest post on 11 January 2011 - 13:13

Too true... Have hired people in the past with degrees who really cannot do a job.... Similarly, have hired people with nothing more than a high school certificate, and they are brilliant. Im sure people dont necessarily want someone else to look after their children, but similarly, they also dont want their kids to starve or go without clothes etc. Which is the lesser of the two evils? Edited for pants spelling :D <em>edited by wikkid on 11/01/2011</em>

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EW OLDHAND

Latest post on 11 January 2011 - 13:01

mamaballs, the word "maid" is used here to describe people who can be hired to clean, cook, babysit etc... not just "clean". And I doubt any of these parents hire their "maid" and think, well I'm sure she's not capable of looking after my children but I'll risk it anyway... They interview and screen and make a decision based on that, hiring someone with "qualifications" in all honesty doesn't mean they will be any more reliable... And did the OP say anywhere that this maid she had hired was inexperienced? If so I may have missed it, but for all you know her CV could have lots about previous work with other families with children and glowing references...

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EW NEWBIE

Latest post on 11 January 2011 - 12:43

FWIW we had a maid that left our LO alone for 35 mins and I came home and caught her, she was jailed for 2 years and has a lifetime ban on her. If she has absconded the embassy can obtain pass outs for them BUT if there is a criminal case then they cannot.

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Latest post on 11 January 2011 - 12:43

I said MAID not a maid with nanny qualifications and evidenced experience! If you leave your kid with a maid with no proper evidenced experience cause you work long hours then employ a nanny or change jobs. Leaving your kid with a maid who just happens to have her own kids is ridiculous and I wouldn't risk the safety of mine for anything. I'd rather be poor in a dead end job then put them at risk. And the op's friend who left her kids with a woman who was worried her maid would harm the kids if she spoke to her about the op's missing maid - WTF? I wouldn't want to have friends like that I'm afraid. A maid CLEANS. You want someone to look after your kids? Get a NANNY or a maid that is PROPERLY qualified. Honestly It must be nice to have a qualification that is so in demand that you get to pick and choose which job you want depending on what fits your lifestyle... "I'd rather be poor in a dead end job then [SIC'> put them at risk." How about in jail because you hung around waiting for that "lifestyle fitting" job to come along and it just never did, so the rent cheque bounced... Honestly, my ***...

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Latest post on 11 January 2011 - 11:26

Don't know why anyone would EVER EVER leave their kid with a maid or even let the maid have ANY responsibility with the child. Freaking crazy. Because some of us [b'>NEED[/b'> to work long hours so we can feed our children. Not all of us can stay at home with our children, please stop judging if you have no idea!!! That's what nannies are for... You are right!!! I have the nanny/maid version, so I felt offended!!! I said MAID not a maid with nanny qualifications and evidenced experience! If you leave your kid with a maid with no proper evidenced experience cause you work long hours then employ a nanny or change jobs. Leaving your kid with a maid who just happens to have her own kids is ridiculous and I wouldn't risk the safety of mine for anything. I'd rather be poor in a dead end job then put them at risk. And the op's friend who left her kids with a woman who was worried her maid would harm the kids if she spoke to her about the op's missing maid - WTF? I wouldn't want to have friends like that I'm afraid. A maid CLEANS. You want someone to look after your kids? Get a NANNY or a maid that is PROPERLY qualified. Honestly

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Latest post on 11 January 2011 - 10:12

you are being naïve. They prefer to work as blostitubes, it has higher earning potential and more freedom. What's a blostitube? Or is it another way of saying the P word :\: curious too! hope its not the P word :( It is.

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EW NEWBIE

Latest post on 11 January 2011 - 10:07

Don't know why anyone would EVER EVER leave their kid with a maid or even let the maid have ANY responsibility with the child. Freaking crazy. Because some of us [b'>NEED[/b'> to work long hours so we can feed our children. Not all of us can stay at home with our children, please stop judging if you have no idea!!! That's what nannies are for... You are right!!! I have the nanny/maid version, so I felt offended!!!

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EW NEWBIE

Latest post on 11 January 2011 - 09:48

Don't know why anyone would EVER EVER leave their kid with a maid or even let the maid have ANY responsibility with the child. Freaking crazy. Because some of us [b'>NEED[/b'> to work long hours so we can feed our children. Not all of us can stay at home with our children, please stop judging if you have no idea!!!

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EW NEWBIE

Latest post on 11 January 2011 - 09:31

Don't know why anyone would EVER EVER leave their kid with a maid or even let the maid have ANY responsibility with the child. Freaking crazy.

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EW NEWBIE

Latest post on 11 January 2011 - 09:29

you are being naïve. They prefer to work as blostitubes, it has higher earning potential and more freedom. What's a blostitube? Or is it another way of saying the P word :\: curious too! hope its not the P word :(

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EW NEWBIE

Latest post on 11 January 2011 - 09:28

you are being naïve. They prefer to work as blostitubes, it has higher earning potential and more freedom. Ok…. and before they were nannies, such big career change…. I would feel sick if she was my maid…

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EW NEWBIE

Latest post on 11 January 2011 - 09:26

They will work as "freelancers". Many of them around here too.Not necessarily absconded maids, some are though, some are freelancing on someone's sponsorship.

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EW NEWBIE

Latest post on 11 January 2011 - 09:25

you are being naïve. They prefer to work as blostitubes, it has higher earning potential and more freedom. What's a blostitube? Or is it another way of saying the P word :\:

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EW EXPLORER

Latest post on 11 January 2011 - 09:20

you are being naïve. They prefer to work as blostitubes, it has higher earning potential and more freedom.

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EW NEWBIE

Latest post on 11 January 2011 - 09:15

Anybody knows what absconded maids doing in this country? If somebody will catch them they will be deported. And being illegally here means begging for job as a part-timer, paying your own accommodation, transportation and all other expenses which live-in maid getting as part of a package without any hassles. Where is the logic to all of this? Or im just being naïve?

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EW EXPLORER

Latest post on 11 January 2011 - 08:27

Please let this be a warning to anyone who hires a maid themselves, you get what you get and when they're gone, you get nothing back. Go to a legit agency and choose a maid from their books, sponsor her and once you have employed her and she runs away/does not want to work/etc etc, the agency must assist and bring in a new maid at no extra cost to you (you might have to pay immigration Dh500 or so). If you bring in one of your own choice or hire locally, then you are totally responsible. Dh10,000 is a lot to take a chance on. Even those who have been hired locally don't always work out, even though the employer has met them and interviewed them. Finally, please act responsibly as an employer and spell it out to the maid clearly from day 1. No requests for extra allowances etc etc.

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Latest post on 11 January 2011 - 04:17

Now do we finally think it is a good time to bring in the police???? I've been following this from a distance and cannot believe the police weren't brought in long ago!! Actually the police were brought in from day one. When hubby told the immigration it gets registered with the police straight away. he did go into a police station several days later just to double check and they showed him on the computer how the case was on their file. Sorry Ginnee...that just wasn't clear from what's been written so far. I'm so sorry you and your family are going through all of this.

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EW OLDHAND

Latest post on 10 January 2011 - 21:29

I would charge the friends whose maid's "cousin" she was. I thought you got her on their recommendation? lol Yeah she was on recommendation from two separate people in two different countries!! Yani's previous employers are shocked.

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Latest post on 10 January 2011 - 21:25

I would charge the friends whose maid's "cousin" she was. I thought you got her on their recommendation?

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Latest post on 10 January 2011 - 21:14

Sorry, I did glance over the other threads, but was just wondering does anyone have any idea why they would run away? Wouldn't it just be easier to quit if you want to leave your job?? Think its terrible what they've done to you guys, esp leaving the LO all alone... Is it not the case that if the maid wants to quit that the employer can choose to send them back to their home country with a 6 month ban if they do not want to give them a NOC? I wouldn't blame the employer doing that after a month, having paid more than 10,000DHS for all the fees and costs to get her over here. In our case it was planned right from the beginning just to use us to fund getting her here.

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Latest post on 10 January 2011 - 21:11

Now do we finally think it is a good time to bring in the police???? I've been following this from a distance and cannot believe the police weren't brought in long ago!! Actually the police were brought in from day one. When hubby told the immigration it gets registered with the police straight away. he did go into a police station several days later just to double check and they showed him on the computer how the case was on their file.

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Latest post on 10 January 2011 - 18:41

Sorry, I did glance over the other threads, but was just wondering does anyone have any idea why they would run away? Wouldn't it just be easier to quit if you want to leave your job?? Think its terrible what they've done to you guys, esp leaving the LO all alone... Is it not the case that if the maid wants to quit that the employer can choose to send them back to their home country with a 6 month ban if they do not want to give them a NOC?

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Latest post on 10 January 2011 - 18:39

that is unbelievable. obviuosly pre-planned. i too wonder why they would run...its not like they were held captive. valuables missing? PS...tsk tsk the lynch mob returns...hehe..cannot wait to see what spin this thread will get in 7days :-) edited by KoolestMum on 10/01/2011 anybody know who that nasty piece of work is? I was fuming when I saw how she had lied about the story.

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EW EXPERT

Latest post on 10 January 2011 - 18:36

From what I understand the OP hired her maid quite legitimately and followed all the legal procedures needed. I think it is prudent for new people to UAE to understand that you take your chances if you don't do so. Her experience has been horrendous, and I hope the guilty parties are punished appropriately. It is caveat emptor even with maid services.

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EW EXPERT

Latest post on 10 January 2011 - 18:03

I don't think the police would take the time to search for a maid. Alll they are concerned about is that the sponsor has fullfilled the obligations by reporting the maid as absoconding and applying a travel ban. They do regular sweeps of areas and catch a large number of maids at once or they figure the maid will be apprehended if she tries to leave the country. I really don't think they'll expend resources looking for a runaway maid.

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Latest post on 10 January 2011 - 17:50

Now do we finally think it is a good time to bring in the police???? I've been following this from a distance and cannot believe the police weren't brought in long ago!!

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Latest post on 10 January 2011 - 17:32

Now do we finally think it is a good time to bring in the police???? I can't believe they haven't, surely they would of after todays debarcle?

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