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I am honestly exhausted. So many helpers overpromise, exaggerate their experience, and then can’t deliver on basic tasks. Say they can cook but can’t even manage a simple stir-fry, afraid of oil splattering. Claim baby or childcare experience, but struggle with the basics, sometimes not even having looked after their own children. It’s frustrating, and frankly, it feels misleading. The biodata can be polished to look impressive, interviews feel rehearsed, and half the time you don’t know what’s real and what’s not. Meanwhile, we employers are paying hefty costs, so where is the accountability from the agent or the helper? Agent always say they cannot guarantee the quality and the training of the helper. Helpers demand about their rights to use phone all day, access to WiFi, insisting on only working in a small households of 2-3 people, want their own room, want weekly off plus PH off days, cannot take it when corrected for something like forgetting to turn off the stove… it’s too much. And when things don’t go their way, some even threaten to go back to the agent or ask to be sent home. It is like there’s no responsibility to uphold their end of the contract at all. It is already stressful working full time, managing a household, being a caregiver, raising a child/children and then facing uncertainty with helpers who run away, threaten to go back agent or be sent home. This is a real concern, and not talked about enough. If you’ve gone through this, you’ll understand how draining it is.