ahem......
surprise surprisei was expecting tt recieving my handphone bill this month will be a traumatising experience for me.Simply because , i have been sending a lot of sms and making phone calls that comes with the job of being a sec com.(having to make calls to officers and men alike and using sms to pass down info)which isn't a nice job.well one example of the downside of being a spec is that compared to a man who take one confinement for a mistake he make, a spec have to take 2 or 3 for the same mistake.
but somehow or rather, my hp bill amounted to only 28.18
which i'm happy to annouce is a record low
i dun remember my bill being anything less than $40, for , god knows, how many mnths liaoz
when i came home from town juz now, i saw this family with thier maid.Well, the maid was carryin all the stuff they bought,which was quite a lot.i mean, both her hands were realli full , .a plastic bag of stuff muz have been hooked to every single finger.
and i looked at her employer, this healthy mother who was walking beside her, carrying nothing.NOTHING AT ALL...
ok to be fair, those stuff the maid carried do not look heavy at all.but wat the heck, i thought perhaps that the lady could have helped her maid in carrying at least one or two bags.
So ppl think that when u have the money to hire maids,u have every right to work her as hard as u think she should, simply becoz u r paying her.
i have seen maids whose onli place she is allowed to roam , is the kitchen,even when she has nothing to do.i have seen a maid who are hired to help this family, yet during weekend when the employer has nothing for the maid, "lend" the maid to her relatives to help the latter iron clothes, clean house etc..WITHOUT getting extra pay...
without a doubt, there sure are ppl who will scream and yell orders at thier maids instead of telling them nicely
oh come on, maids are there to help you, not to be a slave for you.
yes u pay them, but they are no less human than u..
when they work hard for you, wat u can do is to reward them with a off day once a week or at the very least, show them the proper respect they deserve
surely giving them some rest or respect isn't that hard...
posted by zaraki85 @ 11:59 pm
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Yeah, I think u r rite. Some people only noe how to exploit their maid fully. It's sad too see these cases... Haiz.
well, i would to question the author to what extent do you think this maid exploitation thing is prevalent in Singapore today? and how would you define 'exploit' then? As much as i agree that maids are actually paid to do domestic chores (hence the term 'domestic helpers'), i do believe that the employer must exihibit some control over the maid's freedom in that sense. Not that i ever had a maid, but i've seen cases where the maid socialises too much during her weekends that her behaviour becomes rather incongruous. During secondary school, one of my oral examination questions was 'Do you think a maid can be a time-bomb?'. That's, of course, something to think about. However, pertaining to your post about whether the lady should help her maid, my answer is a definite yes. We should treat maids with equal human dignity. As to the issue of 'lending' maids to relatives, i would accept if the employer is present at the relatives' house and if itz only occasional. Maids do deserve a break (like us), and without breaks, it may just speed up the ticking of the clock. Cheers!
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