How much drama have you endured from a house help? Kwanza these local ones? Understanding house managers (let’s just use this) is easy, if you provide plenty of food, clothes and decent pay, there is not a time you will be bored with this employee. Most Nairobi parents would have you cracked up with their house manager tales.
Let’s not even talk about these Ugandan sisters who have come to salvage the situation. Dispelling the notion that most house managers are backward and always so primitive; would seem quite unfair. Some of these ladies outsmart us and to an extent, they even get attached to our husbands. Shame!
Recently, a KOT member shared how his house manager formally wrote a resignation letter. Well, at least she was humble enough to call it quits on a tissue paper..haha! Some of us have been left with Jesus, you know, to take the wheel. These ladies can humiliate you especially when you need them most, like when kids are just about to open school or when you have a young toddler and your maternity leave has just depleted. Then at the time when you thought everything was rosy; Boom! she packs her bag and comes “Mama Nani, mtoto wangu nmeambiwa ni mgonjwa.”
Our maid just left. I am in tears😂😂😂😂 pic.twitter.com/8FM6OT8nkg
— Chapo Benz (@ongubo_) June 19, 2019
The most hilarious excuse is that their kid has either fallen ill or had an accident, just something that they know will break you down because in your mind you can only picture yo child falling sick and you are not there for them. This excuse always wins it every time. Below were a few reactions;
Nduthi gang were the first blame
Hawa majamaa wa bodaa watatumalizia ma–mboch kwa estates… you struggle to get maids from ushago halafu bodaa anamchukua hivi hivi tu… at least they start paying us mahari…
— karanja charles (@karnjcharles40) June 19, 2019
Remember the tales I mentioned above?
Atleast alisema ameenda. Mwingine alituwachia a running tap in the morning unathani ako kumbe she left na pesa ya kubuy mkate na maziwa
— #peoplepower (@vynkev) June 19, 2019
Is she by any chance from …. Kisii? Mbicos gwaheri gaki! 🙆🙆🙆😂😂😂
— mrs.quagmire (@victorinendinda) June 19, 2019