Gross Things Your Housekeeper Does ( and other Thais...)

[EBlair48]

Ok , I've caught my once a week housekeeper using the dish scrubbie sponge on the shower doors, and then putting it back near the sink for me to use on the dishes. I've seen her scoop out feces laden baby wipes from the the garbage pail with her bare hands- but yesterday , her using my tooth brushing water cup as a scoop for nasty floor washing water was just too much.

When I asked her if she even used the nearby antibacterial liquid soap to clean it " Oh no, shouldn't use that soap on dishes.."

This takes me into watching a bartender pick his nose and then finger a lime wedge into my soda bottle- and then he makes sure he gives the top of the straw a real rub down with his nasal pathogens. Shall I puke on his bar?

What are they teaching these people in school? Anything other than a wholly unwarranted and fierce nationalism?

Is booger picking really acceptable in public, with your fingers?

I read one theory bird flu within Thailand is a result of cock fighting when the Thais would suck the blood from the bird's beaks. Yech !!

I pretty much have stopped eating in restaurants that do not have a looming foreigner presence of micro-management, seen too many times the same rag used to wipe down tables used to dry cutlery. And school children sneezing all over the food , etc etc etc

Add your assorted grotessities here !!

Edited April 25, 2014 by EBlair48

[geronimo]

She should get a medal because she is strengthening your immune system. Soon you will be able to eat feces and grow fat too (if you aren't already)

[Costas2008]

OP, unfortunately, mine does nothing.

I pay her 400Baht a day and when I look around the house is in the same dirty state, as when she came in.

Plenty of "kin kow" breaks and nothing else.

Edited April 25, 2014 by Costas2008

[EBlair48]

Mine gets 600 for about 4 hours of work, the house looks OK but don't check under or behind stuff. I do provide used sponges and such for the nattier jobs- is she stupid or obtuse?

[Costas2008]

Mine gets 600 for about 4 hours of work, the house looks OK but don't check under or behind stuff. I do provide used sponges and such for the nattier jobs- is she stupid or obtuse?

She is Thai.

[EBlair48]

She should get a medal because she is strengthening your immune system. Soon you will be able to eat feces and grow fat too (if you aren't already)

I don't eat Thai food, but is that what happened to you ? [" just joking" smiley icon to offset personal insult ]

[EBlair48]

Mine gets 600 for about 4 hours of work, the house looks OK but don't check under or behind stuff. I do provide used sponges and such for the nattier jobs- is she stupid or obtuse?

She is Thai.

.....and of tropical origin, so we'll say unable to think of future consequence- which is me getting the trots.

[ThaidDown]

I wonder what she uses your toothbrush for ?

Not (necessarily) related.... but is the toilet spotless or how about the grouting..extra clean?

Re restaurants, not all Thai operated ones are terrible just as having a foreigner presence does not automatically increase hygiene standards.

[cooked]

Gross? How about someone amicably offering to detick your dogs and then finding that your tiled floor is carpeted with dead ticks?

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[geronimo]

She should get a medal because she is strengthening your immune system. Soon you will be able to eat feces and grow fat too (if you aren't already)

I don't eat Thai food, but is that what happened to you ? [" just joking" smiley icon to offset personal insult ]

It was just a tongue in cheek attempt at homour. Call the funny police!!!!

[bannork]

George is clearly a troll, feminine in her fastidiousity, yet prone to using words like puke which no lady would use.

.I suggest he or she dispenses with the housekeeper, rolls up her sleeves and uses some elbow grease.Only then can she be assured of the levels of hygiene to which she aspires.

[Jingthing]

I only have a lady in occasionally and I like both her and the results but I'm sure she does some things that would gross me out. I try not to think about it and I go away and don't watch her. The only thing I've "caught" her at is putting her funky handbag directly on the main food prep area on the kitchen counter. Twice. I asked her both times not to store it there, trying to explain why (bottoms of bags are usually infected from bathroom floors) but I doubt that registered. So knowing that ... what else is she doing ... oh well ...

Edited April 25, 2014 by Jingthing

[Beetlejuice]

Mine gets 600 for about 4 hours of work, the house looks OK but don't check under or behind stuff. I do provide used sponges and such for the nattier jobs- is she stupid or obtuse?

She is Thai.

She is Thai. Please can you explain in exact detail what you mean? She is Thai meaning?

And so we have yet another Thai bashing thread to add to the collection.

Posters that consider all Thais as having the same traits and are full of their own importance and superior attitutes. A look how high up on the social scale we are, we can afford an inferior Thai housekeeper, wow.

All you people seem to do is moan about the Thais in every aspect of life and the environment around you. It is obvious that you people are unable to adapt into Thai culture and way of life, you expect the Thais to jump over into your worlds and things to be exactly how they were in your own countries. I have to ask; why are you here? And is there anything you find good about the country at all? .

[pigeonjake]

Mine gets 600 for about 4 hours of work, the house looks OK but don't check under or behind stuff. I do provide used sponges and such for the nattier jobs- is she stupid or obtuse?

costas ,

you might of known he would of beet you, his would have to cost 600,

op

ive read many of your posts and to me, you shouldnt be here,

you dont like thais, you wont eat in the restraunts because kids are sneezing,,,

[deknoiJT]

Good Question.

We came home early to find our maid of several years using one of our Adult Toys to froth up her iced chocolate. When asked she answered she liked the iced chocolate farang style (frothy).

We never drank one of her iced chocolate again.

[telldem]

No complaints...The house is spotless.

[HeijoshinCool]

My housekeeper was fantastic. I gave her 20k when I left.

But I once saw a guy clipping blackened toenails you could hammer into teak.

Then a customer came up and ordered som tam.

And he made it.

[EvilDrSomkid]

We don't have a housekeeper. Mrs. Evil is a very good cleaner. Likes to clean in fact.

As for the generally disgusting things Thai people do, the reason is THEY DON"T CARE!!!!

[tingtongdingdong]

if you can see the germs there not there

[bobmac10]

She should get a medal because she is strengthening your immune system. Soon you will be able to eat feces and grow fat too (if you aren't already)

what doesn't kill you makes you stronger

[Sigurris]

Having read these posts I feel good about my cleaner. She comes 3 times a week, keeps my 140sqm spotless as well as washing and ironing all my clothes. 1000 baht well spent. Since I live alone I could do it myself but for the money I would rather use my time more productively like sipping G&T's watching the sun go down

[tingtongdingdong]

I've seen a waitress serve a Russian a cocktail with a cockroach in it.....

[beautifulthailand99]

The rag towel in Thai toilets that acts as a hand dryer always fills me with horror would rather dry my hands on my own trousers than that filth magnet - that will be after I have washed my hands with the obligatory loose tap - probably at least half the taps in Thailand are the same.

[GAZZPA]

Funny post, made me chuckle. Thai people are not unclean for sure but they do not have the level of hygiene awareness / health and safety of Western Countries (I think the West has gone to far with these things by the way). You only have to see the thousands of street food vendors and the conditions they are cooking in to see that people don't really mind here.

The best way to deal with it is be specific. Give her different cloths for different jobs and ask her politely to do things they way you want them done. I think you should at least give her the opportunity to adjust so you are happy.

Off topic a bit but 1 thing I struggle with is watching and listening to people eat and chew with mouths wide open. Also the chewing and holding a conversation so you get a full view of the mushy contents in their mouths, you also see the occasion piece of food fall (or fly) from their mouths. I struggled with this when lived in China as well.

No one here cares about that either, but again in the West you are taught from a vey early age to chew with your mouth closed. A couple of years ago my mother came to visit me in Asia for her holiday and commented that people here ate like warthogs!!

[ezzra]

Even though I have been incurably lucky to have the same Muslim house keeper for the last 14

years I have come to learn that they are not really house keepers in nature, they mostly wing it

and have rhyme or reason why they do what they do and you still have to show them over and

over again how and what to do even though they did it many time before, they are inherently

not well endowed in the brain department to say the least...

[overherebc]

Mine has a terrible habit of bending forward and letting me see down the front of her T shirt while she is sweeping and sometimes she will wear a mini skirt and ask me to steady the step ladder while she dusts the lights.

[tingtongdingdong]

Mine has a terrible habit of bending forward and letting me see down the front of her T shirt while she is sweeping and sometimes she will wear a mini skirt and ask me to steady the step ladder while she dusts the lights.

thats just terrible ...... whats her number??

[overherebc]

Mine has a terrible habit of bending forward and letting me see down the front of her T shirt while she is sweeping and sometimes she will wear a mini skirt and ask me to steady the step ladder while she dusts the lights.

thats just terrible ...... whats her number??

510-38-24-36

[loong]

Mine gets 600 for about 4 hours of work, the house looks OK but don't check under or behind stuff. I do provide used sponges and such for the nattier jobs- is she stupid or obtuse?

She is Thai.

She is Thai. Please can you explain in exact detail what you mean? She is Thai meaning?

And so we have yet another Thai bashing thread to add to the collection.

Posters that consider all Thais as having the same traits and are full of their own importance and superior attitutes. A look how high up on the social scale we are, we can afford an inferior Thai housekeeper, wow.

All you people seem to do is moan about the Thais in every aspect of life and the environment around you. It is obvious that you people are unable to adapt into Thai culture and way of life, you expect the Thais to jump over into your worlds and things to be exactly how they were in your own countries. I have to ask; why are you here? And is there anything you find good about the country at all? .

When employing somebody as a housekeeper, you believe that the employer should adapt to the employees culture and standards?

[recycler]

If they do like that they don't give a rats ass about you and the job or service they do for you.

Sure that at their own home they would never do anything near it, Thais are extremely clean when it comes to their body and food.

They can live in a pig-shed in a garbage yard, but they are always clean on themselves and their clothes.