By tomorrow morning, we will be yaya-less again. The current substitute yaya is leaving for the province and the original yaya has not yet arrived.
We never had any issues with house-helpers before we had children. Jen and I would do the laundry and the cleaning by ourselves. But now that we have two kids in the house, we've become dependent on other people to do basic household chores.
The original yaya left us two weeks ago when she got word that her father passed away. She promised to return after two weeks, saying that the family needed the time to grieve. (Is this a Filipino tradition?) She got her pay and asked if we could loan her one thousand pesos to help pay for her trip back to the province. I gave her an additional five hundred pesos for the funeral.
She texted us a couple of days ago, asking if we could lend her one month worth of her pay. She explained that the funeral expense was costly and they ran out of money. I thought about it and decided to help her out. She is hardworking and probably deserves some break. Jen replied saying that we'll give her the money when she comes back.
The yaya answered back, saying that she doesn't have money to pay for the trip to Manila. She told us to send over her one month pay plus an additional eight hundred pesos for transportation. No one in the province was willing to lend her money anymore (she maxed out her credit).
That was when we decided to draw the line. We were willing to help her out, but she kept asking for more money. She's even planning to borrow another month's worth of salary on July for help pay for her daughter's wedding. Jen told her that we won't be spending her money but that we'll give her the money when she comes back.
She gave a ultimatum -- either send us the money or she won't return. Even though she is a hardworker, I realized that she does have a tendency to over-borrow money. And when she doesn't get what she wants, she threatens to leave us.
Jen and I decided to leave it at that. If she returns, then we'll continue hiring her. If she does not return, we'll continue looking for a new house-help.
3 comments:
sarap sabunutan yang yaya niyo ah.
hay naku, it's really hard to find good help nowadays. *sigh*
do you plan to look for a replacement?
It's amazing as your experience is similar to ours - and that of thousands of other people, I guess! At least we're lucky never to have had a house employee borrowing money when she's away, and avoided this kind of annoying situation. Based on our own experience, the two most likely scenarios when an employee returns to her province is: 1. she won't ever show up again. 2. after leaving you without any news for the whole time, she'll suddenly come back after six months and ask for her job back... Therefore it is probably wise to look for a new employee every time one leaves! :)
Regards,
Laurent.
P.S. I'd like to add that right now, and for the last one month and a half, we have been once again left with two young children but no yaya...
ano ba ang average sweldo ng yaya ces jours
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