1st one regularly damaged different things starting from the iron and ending with furniture, fridge and so on (scratches etc).
2nd resigned after first time as I told her that she also should clean up gecko sh*t from the floor - as a local custom required she simply did not showed up next time and when I called the agent he told me that according to her we were too demanding.
The last one is with us already like two years (I learnt the lesson) but it is simply impossibleto teach her how to do the job right. It seems impossible to get a simple message through: work such way to have it cleaned. It is beyond any perception. It is (and it was in the first case) like programming a robot - take tissue paper, use this and this, that many times... with the exception that conditional steps don't work so you may forget a statement like this: IF the table is still dirty THEN repeat cleaning procedure. For example we struggle already for some time to teach her not to iron cloths that are stained. She was told like 5x already and still do it. And I am talking about STAINS not some dots hidden under the armpit. Not only she irons such cloths she also folds them such to make the stains not visible


Yet another thing, a side effect of this robot programming is that everything takes at least twice as long as we would do it by ourselves - again, no IF, no checking conditions so all cm2 has to be methodically processed whether is clean or not. What I managed with the current one after these two years of training is to teach her to send me a text message if she is going to be late (by 30 min or more) or can not show up at all. Wasn't easy.
I am asking the subject question and telling this stories because I read in this forum so many times how wonderful the maids are and that everybody is more than delighted with the quality of their job.
So basically I am curious whether this is us or the local reality...