Last Friday, the maid next door approached us as we were getting ready to go out to eat. "Help me, please," she said. "I cannot stay here any more or my heart will die."
She has been employed with the next door neighbor for 5 days. The next day she passed my wife a note through the fence detailing the verbal abuse and almost constant criticism she is receiving from the old man that lives there.
She's the third maid they've had in two years. The last one lasted six months before giving it all up. All the maids have told my wife that the man is extremely verbally abusive and critical, using them as a verbal punching bag (but no physical or sexual abuse).
None of these maids ever had a day off, ever... and this new one has not even been allowed out to walk the dog because the man doesn't want her talking to the other maids.
The gahmen is a joke. If you've had FIVE maids in one year, you must watch a video, SIX and you must go in for an interview... that's it.
Apparently, it is the same agency that placed all these maids (attempting to verify) so they know damn good and well about how bad the man is.
Options? Approaches? Recourse? Seems very limited at this point, and since we've been dragged into it, would like to try and do something.
TIA
