Julia

Some of you have wrote to say the injustice of our neighbours just feeding tea and bread, well employers have to provide a food allowance, which they use to buy food and then on top of that provide tea and bread. Also here are two additional stories from our short time here.

1.) I fired Boni, mainly because the kids didn't like her but also because she was rather inflexible and somewhat ungrateful, Boni was ok on the food front but there were many little things that she would be counting and always to her benefit, she also had a long face and seldom said thank you or please. When she was sick and Nomsa covered her weekend, she would not want to cover Nomsa's weekend and wanted to be paid while sick (which is ok if she worked for a longer period of time), luckily the contract was clear on these things. The agency woman actually told me to be less nice to them as they are prone to taking and taking and taking...

2.) Julia our part time helper which i got to tide us over when we first arrived, she only worked 4 hours a day cleaning for us but her tea and lunch breaks went from only 30 mins to over an hour! but the funny part is this, she ate like a vacuum cleaner. Olivia had a light fruit Xmas cake which we got for her and she sparingly ate a piece everyday, one day for breakfast, she offered Julia a piece, when she turned back around, Julia had eaten the whole cake! Olivia was stunned into silence!

Then after my lunch i would pass her rice to eat and instead of taking a portion she would take the whole plate as her main plate and pile all the other left over food as well. Future meals, Olivia had to make sure she saved a portion for herself.

Loren did not finish his big tub of yogurt, it was expired by a day but still good, she gladly drank down the tub! Olivia thought Wendy was a big eater but at least Wendy did her work efficiently, Julia just lived to eat. Our fridge was getting bare at a fast rate. She would have definitely eaten us poor.

Her second last day with us, we gave her sushi. She didn't come to work the next day, we aren't sure if her tummy did not agree to that? a month later she called asking if we needed a full time person.... yeah right, apart from the food, she was not particularly hard working if she was looking for a job.

I think we are lucky that Nomsa and Thembi both want to lose weight. That should be an interview question!