I grew up in HK and we had a horrendous experience. Our maid used to smack us for absolutely nothing - although I told my parents they didn't believe us and they were old school - 'well you must have done something to deserve it' She regularly used to lock us out of our apartment to 'clean' What she was actually doing was 'personal favours' for other men who lived in our block. The reason my parents never cottoned on was because they were both out at work all day.
Eventually we went back to the UK for a number of weeks and came back to find that she had done a runner with a lot of my parents possessions - clothes, jewelry, money etc.
It taught my parents a valuable lesson - ie to listen to their kids and take decent references.
ps - my parents always paid more than any other expat family so there was no real reason for her to behave in this way.Just goes to show things never change.
I grew up in HK and we had a horrendous experience. Our maid used to smack us for absolutely nothing - although I told my parents they didn't believe us and they were old school - 'well you must have done something to deserve it' She regularly used to lock us out of our apartment to 'clean' What she was actually doing was 'personal favours' for other men who lived in our block. The reason my parents never cottoned on was because they were both out at work all day.
Eventually we went back to the UK for a number of weeks and came back to find that she had done a runner with a lot of my parents possessions - clothes, jewelry, money etc.
It taught my parents a valuable lesson - ie to listen to their kids and take decent references.
ps - my parents always paid more than any other expat family so there was no real reason for her to behave in this way.Just goes to show things never change.