We asked her to estimate the amount that she had taken from us, but she said that she couldn’t remember. So estimating the amount that we should deduct from her salary is a tough job. We wanted to be fair to her, and at the same time fair to us too.
We were not too fierce in the interrogation session, and we convinced her that we would like to help her instead of punishing her. We won’t send her to police if she cooperates with us; else she might end up in jail and won’t be able to return to Indonesia next month.
After the session, I did give her some counseling. Whenever I reminded her that a Christian should not steal, she cried very sadly. I believe she was sad that she failed the teaching of the Word of God.
Though she was labeled as a Christian maid, she didn’t practice a Christian living; she didn’t pray and read bible.
Of the four Christian maids that we had so far, we saw a pattern. Behave well were those who read bible and pray regularly.
Our first maid worked for us for a few weeks. She was older – about 30 years old - and had working experience earlier. She was lazy and pretended to be sick all the time. Due to ignorance, I sent her to hospital in Putra Jaya twice, and spent quite a sum of money as she was a foreigner. She wanted to go back to Indonesia, and wanted us to send her directly to airport instead of to the maid agency.
She said that the maid agency would kill her should we sent her there because the people there were very fierce and inhuman. She even packed her luggage and got ready to go back. We pitied her but didn’t listen to her. We sent her to the maid agency and that was when we were told that the maid was lying – acting that she was very sick. We then requested for a replacement, of course with an overhead charges of about RM2000 if I were not mistaken. But we were willing to bear the course as we didn’t trust the maid anymore.
When we examined her luggage at home, it was a shock to us that she took almost anything she could pack in the box; VCDs, clothes, books, and etc. :-(
The second and third maid were satisfactory, and here come the fourth one that gave us problem again.
We pray that the next one will be the one that really practice a Christian living and wouldn’t give us trouble anymore.
See you next post :-)
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