Getting a servant these days is like finding a unicorn in your backyard. Here are some tips to retain them.
1. Dispose of your old papers through them. The second hand market does give you some additional money, but it is more useful to them.
2. Utilize the examinations time to hand over the airline pens and conference goodies which you get to make the servant's children happy.
3. On a whim give them off - randomly at that
4. If you involve them to specially help you prepare difficult and one off food such as pickles, etc. share with them too.
5. Buy those brooms, buckets, soaps exactly as they ask for and when they ask for!!
6. Preferably do NOT peer over their shoulder when they are on work.
7. Do NOT compare them with another servant, or for that matter do not put down the neighbour's servant. Word gets around you know!
8. Do NOT give them food that you would not take. ( Many of us believe that the leftovers can be given to them irrespective of the state it is in)
9. Do NOT given your hand me downs that cannot be worn anyway. Buy them new ones instead.
Try them, who knows you may have a unicorn after all!!
