I somehow randomly found this thread when searching for something completely unrelated but though it sounded interesting... I am now not sure whether it is all a joke or not?!
I have recently moved to the UAE from New Zealand and am sharing a house maid with my sister. She works for each of us on alternate days. She comes and cleans for us for three hours in the morning and then is free to do whatever she likes for the rest of the day. She lives in the maids quaters on the compound and keeps her own passport. She also looks after the children at other times of the day if we need her to but we don't require her to do this very much as we look after our children ourselves when we can... as we are their mothers! She has the whole day on Friday off. We pay her 2000AED a month and to me, this seems a small price.
If what people have written on this forum are their true opinions then I am more naive than I realised. I can not believe the lack of empathy and the ignorance and selfishness of some of the people who have posted on this forum. We are all human beings... with feelings, wants and needs. Nobody is better than anybody else, despite what they might like to believe. If you pay your maid very little (regardless of whether this is the norm), work her all hours of the day and do not give her a day off or allow her the freedom that every human being deserves then you are a heartless monster. It is not right. Ask yourself.. is this what I would want for my child? If the answer is no then how can you convince yourself that this is okay. That maid is somebodys daughter and mother. We are just very lucky to have been born in the country we were born in or we would be the ones put to work.
It makes me sad to learn of the way some people think. And sadder to know that it is likely, if not a sure thing, they will never change this way of thinking.
I somehow randomly found this thread when searching for something completely unrelated but though it sounded interesting... I am now not sure whether it is all a joke or not?!
I have recently moved to the UAE from New Zealand and am sharing a house maid with my sister. She works for each of us on alternate days. She comes and cleans for us for three hours in the morning and then is free to do whatever she likes for the rest of the day. She lives in the maids quaters on the compound and keeps her own passport. She also looks after the children at other times of the day if we need her to but we don't require her to do this very much as we look after our children ourselves when we can... as we are their mothers! She has the whole day on Friday off. We pay her 2000AED a month and to me, this seems a small price.
If what people have written on this forum are their true opinions then I am more naive than I realised. I can not believe the lack of empathy and the ignorance and selfishness of some of the people who have posted on this forum. We are all human beings... with feelings, wants and needs. Nobody is better than anybody else, despite what they might like to believe. If you pay your maid very little (regardless of whether this is the norm), work her all hours of the day and do not give her a day off or allow her the freedom that every human being deserves then you are a heartless monster. It is not right. Ask yourself.. is this what I would want for my child? If the answer is no then how can you convince yourself that this is okay. That maid is somebodys daughter and mother. We are just very lucky to have been born in the country we were born in or we would be the ones put to work.
It makes me sad to learn of the way some people think. And sadder to know that it is likely, if not a sure thing, they will never change this way of thinking.