She ran away!!

Every one was out of the house except for me. My mom went out at 11 a.m, which is when i had woke up. I didn't get out of bed because i was on the phone. I could hear the maid making noises in the house at the time. I stayed on the phone for an hour or so. I left my room at around 12. The house was very quiet. The maid was nowhere to be seen, so i went downstairs to  look for her since she's usually working in the kitchen, but she wasn't there. I checked the kitchen door to see if it was locked (since it usually is when every one's out) but it wasn't. I suspected that she might have gone outside or something so i just left it unlocked and went back upstairs.

However, while i was on the phone earlier i heard the kitchen door being slammed shut (my room is directly over the kitchen) but i made nothing of it. I thought that maybe dad passed by and dropped groceries off or something(which he does sometimes). Half an hour later my mom came home and asked where the maid was and i told her that I looked for her and couldn't find her. The thought of her running away did cross my mind for a second but I doubted it. My mom and I went to her room and found that most of her clothes were missing and we found her clothes and slippers in the room (which she usually wears while she's working). Her mobile wasn't there and neither were her running shoes so we knew she had gone. And when we put 2 and 2 together we had realised that she had run away. Right after my mom left she must have passed by my room and realised that i was awake and so she took a run for it before i got out of bed. You can tell that she wasn't fully prepared since she left behind a few things, looks like she took what she could while she could.

We never mistreated her in any way, but there was always something fishy about her. She wasn't like the rest of the maids we usually got (she's Phillippino btw). Most maids are shy at first and it takes them a while to get comfortable around the house, but not her. She was very bold and outgoing and in some ways rude! She would look at us in a weird way and tell us strange things that I'm not gonna get into now. And a few days after her arrival she said she wanted to go back to the agency claiming that our house is too big. It was fine with us. We don't' wanna keep her against her will so we were gonna return her, but the next day she said that she changed her mind and decided to stay.

The past week, she's had been acting up. She was ignoring us, ignoring what my mother would tell her. She would just leave everything and go to bed. She wouldn't answer when we called her. She was starting to rebel, but we didn't say anything to her.

And on the night before she ran away she came up to me and asked me what the name of the area we live in is called and the street name and i actually told her! Oh and i forgot to mention that she has a mobile which she uses to contact her husband in the philippine. We even let her use our mobiles to send messages  since it's cheaper since her phone is roaming.

We just found out yesterday that our friends' maid (which is friends with out maid) had received a note from her saying that she has an aunt here that is gonna help her find another job. Meaning that she already intended to leave us.

We have reason to believe that we were conned! We suspect that the agency which we got her from is the one who helped her run away because right before i heard the kitchen door slam i heard a car horn (you can see the street from my window so noises are clear). And she's very sneaky, you can never hear her when she moves around the house and she never makes a sound when she opens and closes doors in the house, yet while she was leaving the house yesterday morning she slammed the door out of hurry and surely someone who escapes in that manner isn't gonna run down the street. I'll bet there was a car waiting for her outside.

My dad is looking into it. You may think that it's far-fetched that the agency would do that but we have reason to believe it. First of all the agency never gave us the maid's passport (claiming that they needed it to make her residency) and they insisted on getting the money fully paid. Secondly, this maid was supposed to be with us only temporarily until our original one which we ordered came (which never happened! They said that she ran away with her boyfriend in Manila). AND a few days after we got her the owner of the agency was put in jail for some problems with the government!

We were at a gathering this morning (my mom and I) with some ladies who said that some agencies tend to con people and sell the same maid to a number of people at the same time. Can you believe it?! Unbelievable!!