January is always a bad month for most Kenyans in Nairobi and other major towns when it comes to house girls. When most house girls go to their rural homes for the December holidays, the chances of them coming back to their employers are always zero.
This is the month most house girls discover that their employer was not paying them well and so have organized to “start afresh” with a new employer, somewhere within the same town or city. This is the month most house girls are going to “eat fare”… Sina fare! And as soon as the employer sends the “fare”, they switch off their phones.
This is also the month that most house girls, after reflecting on their life choices in December, have decided to get married, settle down, and start a family, just like their immediate former bosses. In short, if your house girl is still in the village, she is not coming back.
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What should you?
Get another one from your village. It is the Transfer Window after all. Come with one from your place. Tell your mum or aunt to help you look for one from a “good homestead.”
“Steal” someone’s house girl as well. Kama wako ameibiwa, iba pia. Be the reason why another household won’t have a house girl, but at least yours will have one.
Offer a higher salary. Your house girl might not come back because perhaps you were paying her as though she were your slave. Offer to add some coins, and she will come.
Start using daytime house girls in Nairobi. What many do not know is that there are so many house girls in Nairobi willing to work as dayscholars. However, be careful to avoid bringing criminals and drug addicts into your home.
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