| Country | United States |
| State | Afghanistan |
| Website | www.aupair-australia.net/ |
My 23 year old daughter was so excited that she was leaving to go to Australia from our home in Ontario, Canada. The owner of Aupair , Miryam Aubert or Miryam Rosas de Aubert making all of the arrangements. There were no host families available, so Miryam said I will be your host. She wanted her to leave in August, but as the time went on Miryam contacted my daughter and told her if she wanted to come she had to come early july. The best she could do is july 6th. She was very firm that she wanted my daughter very soon. My daughter felt very rushed and pushed to this date but no flags yet.
My daughter arrived and moved in. On the 2nd day because email (somehow) was not working at her place Miryam let my daughter use the phone and because of the cost it was 15 seconds tops.
My daughter had to leave the house and go to Sydney library to email. Really. And when she contacted us, she said "there is something wrong with this lady" As days progressed she said that this lady hates me.
As the next few days went by my daughter was nervous because Miryam was not nice to her and playing mind games. As the next few days went by, my daughter contacted us. We told her to do your best and hang in there but the next email said that she was really sad and would not last another week. That was odd.
My daughter is a very loving person and easy to get along with. Flags are going up in my head. My son was getting messages on facebook that things are not well and that she was being abused and scared and that she was not safe. Miryam exploded to my daughter in a fit of rage and called her stupid and humiliated her so my daughter had to lock her bedroom door at night.
I received NO PHONECALLS OR EMAIL FROM THEM.
At the end of 2 weeks of hell, my daughter became so scared she dicided to leave. She was telling me she did not want to get hurt. Miryam yelling at my daughter YOU HAVE TO STAY, WE HAVE A CONTRACT. YOU CAN'T LEAVE. I WILL HOLD ALL OF YOUR BELONGINGS AND PASSPORT. SO THERE. TO LEAVE YOU HAVE TO PAY ME $400 DOLLARS. Miryam telling my daughter that the contract was broken and she owed money. My daughter said the two weeks that I have worked here, I did not get paid for yet, and that will cover it. Miryam forced my daughter to go to the ATM machine and get the $400. dollars. Miryam said "she will make sure she will ruin my life" and then she said my daughter has a learning impairment and that she was a selfish person for not staying at her home....eh. As my daughter walked out Miryam said " I hope you are scared because I know a lot of people and you better watch yourself because I have a copy of your passport."
My daughter made it out safely out of the house and emailed me in Sydney totally with no money and very upset. She said she didn't know what to do and just cried. NO CALLS FROM MIRYAM YET. not one. Strange, you think an Au pair would call me and let me know my daughter is out in the street in a foreign country with no one and no where to go. Very odd.
I tried to phone Miryam in the morning there at least 10 times and emailed both her and her husband numerous times but STILL NO CALL . DON'T THEY CARE FOR MY DAUGHTER/// STRANGE. Her husband Francis could not be reached either. Not by email or phone. I even tried to contact them by facebook but NO RESPONSE. wow
DID THESE PEOPLE FALL OFF THE PLANET.
Thanks to the internet I put Miryam's name to google and presto, rip-off.com. Interesting reading. A girl states that Miryam is rude and unprofessional. Try to rush an au pair girl. As the girl says about threats about immigration and mentioned she was extremely pushy. And perhaps Miryam has an ironing fetish. She tried so hard to make you feel guilty. My daughter was there and she actually went through Miryams HELL. This girl on rip-off.com states that Miryam threatened to call the government to cancel the visa.mmmmm, interesting, my daughter was threatened the same way.
I have spoken to my daughter at great lenghts and she told me she felt unwanted since day 1. After all this, not one phone call. Many flags go up. About 4 days after my daughter left, I sent Miryam many emails, finally I got a response. She said that my daughter has a mental disability. Really. My daughter has no mental disability at all. Then she says my daughter stole money. eh. MAIRYAM DOES NOT MAKE SENSE, and you begged her to stay,really. ENOUGH SAID, RED FLAGS ON YOU MIRYAM. ABUSING FOREIGH YOUTH IS DISGUSTING.
My guess, she brings the aupairs in for a fee of $695, and to leave charges them $400. plus did not even pay my daughter her wages.
Interesting thought, A business who works with youth, doesn't even care to call the parents if there is a proplem or emergency. What would happen if my daughter went missing or hurt in the street. I would never know.
Miryam should lose her licence for her business and fraud charges for knowingly ahead of time that my daughter would be out.
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My daughter and I together verify that the infomation is correct and has not been embellished in any way. All the facts are true.
This woman verbally abused me, harassed me, threatened to sue me for merely sharing links to reports about her company. She even tried to find out personal details about my life and threatened companies she believed I was associated with. There is no defamation here as I have her harassing and blackmailing messages to prove it. Stay well away from this company.
This looks like an ongoing problem with Miryam Aubert
She should NOT be running this business.!
Miryam Aubert who owns Au-pair Australia is such a rude and unprofessional agent!
She matched me with her own family and she pushed me to leave the day after graduating college and I tried telling her it would be best if she found another Au Pair that could come sooner. Still, she wanted me as her Au Pair and said she would give me 2 weeks after my graduation to say goodbye to family and whatnot.
In the meantime she was extremely pushy about my passport and visa. I paid an extra $60 to expedite my passport and $15 to same day ship it. I also had to miss work to drive 10 hours round trip to go get my Visa on the day she wanted me to. Then when I told her it would take 2 weeks, she was like "um can you call the USA and ask them to do it faster?" HA very funny.
She also asked me to "practice ironing" because it was really important.
Anyways, I felt in my gut that this family would not be a good fit for me so I found a new family within a week and let her know as soon as I committed to the new family.
Miryam emailed me FIVE times even after I asked her to stop. She tried so hard to make me feel guilty. An Au Pair service should be sensitive to the Au Pairs AND the host families and work out the best fit for both parties! Traveling the world as a young women is scary. CHOOSE AN AGENCY THAT TREATS YOU FAIRLY!! AND INTERVIEW WITH MANY FAMILILES BEFORE MAKING A DECISION! She seriously threated to call the government to get my VISA cancelled just because I didn't want to live her family!!!!!!!
This Miryam lady also told me in another email that I "mess with peoples lives" and went on to try to make me feel guilty that she cancelled a Europe trip (that I was completely unaware of and was not my fault at all).
I HIGHLY RECOMMEND USING AUPAIR-WORLD.NET, I found so many great families on there. :)
Miryam,
I am so sorry and I know that this may inconvenience you, but I think that you should take the lady who would commit 12 months. I really cant do that for you and I realized that I didn't have a chance to interview with other families and areas of Australia. I really think it is the best decision that I am not your Au Pair. I'm sorry again and I wish you luck finding somebody! It was lovely to meet your family.
Thank you,
Leah Gerber
Leah
I am terribly disappointed about your comment after waiting for you all this time, in fact we cancelled some holidays in Europe we had at the end of June as you said you could come in May, I really do not understand why you have changed your mind last minute, when you even have a flight
I really need you to call me by skype and explain me why are you doing all this to me, I think I do not deserve this, you are letting me down ,
You said you had taken the decision to accept coming with us and 1 week after you do this to me?
I am very sad you have made me loose all this time, for your information it will take me several weeks to find someone else and then I will have to wait for her to come to Australia, is not as easy as you think that they can start next day as you think
I am really so upset you have done this , I did not give you any reason
Miryam,
I did not have another family. I felt extremely uneasy about the situation so I went and found another family that wanted the same start date. I did not chose your family because you tried to make me feel guilty about not being able to come sooner, when I paid $100 extra and drove 10 hours round trip just to get my passport. Also you are VERY PUSHY and I felt rushed. And you wanted me to work 6 days a week. And I wanted to live with an authentic Australian family. I let you know as soon as possible after I found a new family instead of not telling you at all. The way you are talking to me is extremely rude and unprofessional for someone who owns their own business. I will be leaving a negative review online for aupair-australia. I would recommend not anybody doing business with you. You do not care about how to the Au Pair feels when she is the traveling to another country, paying a lot of money for tickets and passport, etc. They should feel comfortable and not rushed. Please do not respond to this email, I am not a life ruiner, I was protecting myself and I should NOT be criticized for that. Thank you.
You are so rude, and lyer, I am calling right now Immigration and tell them about this, and the way you lie to people you are an scam !! so I will ask them to cancel your visa
After seeing how she twists her emails to companies I feel it's the nannies who are telling the truth here and I am Australian.
Leah I know she threatened you and forced you to write an apology and Casandra, as an Australian myself I am so sorry you were treat like this in my country. I hope your stories make others think twice. It would be wise to go to the newspapers and take this further. I've heard numerous stories now that are very scary.
After seeing how she twists her emails to companies I feel it's the nannies who are telling the truth here and I am Australian.
Leah I know she threatened you and forced you to write an apology and Casandra, as an Australian myself I am so sorry you were treat like this in my country. I hope your stories make others think twice. It would be wise to go to the newspapers and take this further. I've heard numerous stories now that are very scary.
They are false accusations by one single person, Bill Ross from 175 Viewbank Crescent Oakville Canada, her daughter Casandra Ross came to my house to be our au pair, she sent false medical reports , once here she showed to be unable to follow basic instructions like folding the kids clothes, opening a nestquick can or the washing machine door, i asked her how much was 1.5 x 2 and she answered 4, i asked her think again, she continued to say 4, i asked her what was the problem, she accepted to have a learning disability, and this was affecting her to be unable to remember anything, i felt sorry for her and gave her a hug, i had to repeat her 4 times to close the door , to close the tap water, to put piyamas to my kids, she asked me to show her visually things 3 or 4 times so that she could remember and memorize them, i had to show her 4 time how to fold a kids shirt, and every single thing 4 times visually, then the worst happened, she forgot my 4 yr old in the park, she said in that moment ; I QUIT
i begged her to give me 2 weeks notice to find another au pair, she said no I am going now, i asked her twice please give me notice, she said not again, she wanted to pay the cancellation fee of the contract she signed with me, and leave. she paid me the cancellation fee and left me same hour, her father emailing me and i rang him to explain what happened, his wife hanged up the phone to me and he started to harres me by emails every day and threat me to pay him $3000 for the flight of her daughter, and accused me to kick her out, i told him several time it was her who wanted to leave, and did not even care to leave me without help with my children, i emailed Casandra and asked her to tell the truth, Bill Ross is doing online defamation against me with false accusations and writing false stories about other au pairs as well. I have contacted the police of Australia and there is an open report, they contacted the police of Oakville
Miryam Aubert who owns Au-pair Australia is such a rude and unprofessional agent!
She matched me with her own family and she pushed me to leave the day after graduating college and I tried telling her it would be best if she found another Au Pair that could come sooner. Still, she wanted me as her Au Pair and said she would give me 2 weeks after my graduation to say goodbye to family and whatnot.
In the meantime she was extremely pushy about my passport and visa. I paid an extra $60 to expedite my passport and $15 to same day ship it. I also had to miss work to drive 10 hours round trip to go get my Visa on the day she wanted me to. Then when I told her it would take 2 weeks, she was like "um can you call the USA and ask them to do it faster?" HA very funny.
She also asked me to "practice ironing" because it was really important.
Anyways, I felt in my gut that this family would not be a good fit for me so I found a new family within a week and let her know as soon as I committed to the new family.
Miryam emailed me FIVE times even after I asked her to stop. She tried so hard to make me feel guilty. An Au Pair service should be sensitive to the Au Pairs AND the host families and work out the best fit for both parties! Traveling the world as a young women is scary. CHOOSE AN AGENCY THAT TREATS YOU FAIRLY!! AND INTERVIEW WITH MANY FAMILILES BEFORE MAKING A DECISION! She seriously threated to call the government to get my VISA cancelled just because I didn't want to live her family!!!!!!!
This Miryam lady also told me in another email that I "mess with peoples lives" and went on to try to make me feel guilty that she cancelled a Europe trip (that I was completely unaware of and was not my fault at all).
I HIGHLY RECOMMEND USING AUPAIR-WORLD.NET, I found so many great families on there. :)
Miryam,
I am so sorry and I know that this may inconvenience you, but I think that you should take the lady who would commit 12 months. I really cant do that for you and I realized that I didn't have a chance to interview with other families and areas of Australia. I really think it is the best decision that I am not your Au Pair. I'm sorry again and I wish you luck finding somebody! It was lovely to meet your family.
Thank you,
Leah Gerber
Leah
I am terribly disappointed about your comment after waiting for you all this time, in fact we cancelled some holidays in Europe we had at the end of June as you said you could come in May, I really do not understand why you have changed your mind last minute, when you even have a flight
I really need you to call me by skype and explain me why are you doing all this to me, I think I do not deserve this, you are letting me down ,
You said you had taken the decision to accept coming with us and 1 week after you do this to me?
I am very sad you have made me loose all this time, for your information it will take me several weeks to find someone else and then I will have to wait for her to come to Australia, is not as easy as you think that they can start next day as you think
I am really so upset you have done this , I did not give you any reason
Miryam,
I did not have another family. I felt extremely uneasy about the situation so I went and found another family that wanted the same start date. I did not chose your family because you tried to make me feel guilty about not being able to come sooner, when I paid $100 extra and drove 10 hours round trip just to get my passport. Also you are VERY PUSHY and I felt rushed. And you wanted me to work 6 days a week. And I wanted to live with an authentic Australian family. I let you know as soon as possible after I found a new family instead of not telling you at all. The way you are talking to me is extremely rude and unprofessional for someone who owns their own business. I will be leaving a negative review online for aupair-australia. I would recommend not anybody doing business with you. You do not care about how to the Au Pair feels when she is the traveling to another country, paying a lot of money for tickets and passport, etc. They should feel comfortable and not rushed. Please do not respond to this email, I am not a life ruiner, I was protecting myself and I should NOT be criticized for that. Thank you.
You are so rude, and lyer, I am calling right now Immigration and tell them about this, and the way you lie to people you are an scam !! so I will ask them to cancel your visa