Yaya Less

Friday, January 15, 2010

Howell is at home today because she will be accompanying us to the doctor. You see, I am yaya less again. I had my old yaya for almost eight months already. Actually, we really don’t like her 100% because she still needs monitoring and she can’t even follow simple instructions like how to work with our toggle switches and you can’t trust her in giving medicines to Bela because I caught her one time just getting the medicine bottle from the ref (when actually it is Howell’s medicines) and she will administer it to Bela without even reading what is written on the bottle. If you give instructions to her, you have to repeat it 5-10 times before she can follow it correctly. But she is patient with Bela and Bela likes her too so Howell said that she is worth keeping.

But then every time she goes on a day off, it will always take at least five days before she goes back to work. That is no problem actually since she rarely goes on a day-off but I told her several times that she has to tell us in advance so we can make the proper arrangement. The last time she went on a day-off, she didn’t even text me that she can’t home on the agreed day that she will come back. Luckily (or not), the sister of the maid of our neighbor was looking for work also and so I accepted her and asked my old nanny not to come back anymore.

It turns out, the new yaya is worst than my old. LOL. (I guess the joke is on me. LOL). I can’t even stand her. I taught her how to use the microwave oven, the stove, the DVD player but all I hear from her is “I don’t know.” Simple instruction on how to prepare Bela’s milk, she can’t even follow. And then she tends to make up stories. She went out to throw the trash and she was gone for like thirty minutes and her reason was my grand mother called her so my grand mother has someone to talk to and when I asked my grand mother it is even not true. Sometimes I will look for her and she is nowhere to be found only to find out that she is at her sister’s place. One time she woke me up because she needs to ask for permission if she can go to her sister. Hello, I am sleeping. Can’t you wait for me to wake up before you go on an escapade. Very frustrating indeed. And then after five days of staying with us, she asks if she can go on a day off because her husband had an accident and she needs to go to the hospital. I learned from the sister that it is not true and so I told her that she can go and don’t bother coming back.

Now I am yaya less for almost one week now. I am still on leave until next week but I hope I will be able to get a yaya soon before I go back to work.

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