Reasonable rules?
Are these reasonable rules for maids?
Never let your voice be heard by the ladies and gentlemen of the house
Always 'give room' if you meet one of your employers or betters on the stairs.
Always stand still when being spoken to by a lady and look at the person speaking to you.
Never begin to talk to ladies and gentlemen.
Servants should never offer any opinion to their employers, nor even to say good night.
Never talk to another servant in the presence of your mistress.
Never call from one room to another.
Always answer when you have received an order.
Always keep outer doors fastened. Only the butler may answer the bell.
Every servant must be punctual at meal times.
No servant is to take any knives or forks or other article, nor on any account to remove any provisions, nor ale or beer out of the hall.
No gambling, or oaths, or abusive language are allowed.
The female staff are forbidden from smoking.
No servant is to receive any visitor, friend or relative into the house.
Any maid found fraternising with a member of the opposite sex will be dismissed without a hearing.
The hall door is to be finally closed at half-past ten every night.
The servants' hall is to be cleared and closed at half-past ten at night.
Any breakages or damage to the house will be deducted from wages.
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It might be from 19th Century Britain, but it sounds like the rules many have for their maids here!
Add to that 17 hour working days, no days off, and pennies for wages.
tinker, you will get poked very soon!
You ninny.. The valet is doing that.
You need to get mame Sahib's afternoon tea and cucumber sandwiches ready. And don't forget to iron the morning paper..
Good girl. Now courtsey and go back to work. :o)
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I do like the rest of the job description:
Clipping your master's toenails, ironing his shoelaces, spending 17-hour days doing back-breaking work with no employment rights were just some of the realities facing servants in late Victorian and early Edwardian Britain, according to a new BBC series.
Moreover, if female servants received unwanted advances from their masters, they had little power to stop them.
As a rule, most servants tended to work not in big stately homes full of fellow workers and camaraderie but as the lone member of staff in a middle class town house - and lives for these people was lonely, dark and damp, according to a new BBC documentary series.
Servants tended to work seven days a week, often from as early as 5am until as late as 10pm, for very little money.
Clark Gable and Greta Garbo both smoked :O)
Now you see why i have such a huge followers of women!! :(
Smoking men were (or, may be, are) considered sexy by the women, right. And men generally find women sexy, so why should women smoke...:)
If men smoked, they didn't become Man-w**res?
Of course they did! It was considered very sexy.
So people actually did(do?) associate puffing on em cancer sticks as something sexy?? Wow..
britexpat....lol...:)
Now with equality, it has become manly for women to smoke :O)
Cause for men it was manly to smoke, for women it was whorish.
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We don't get to see many females smoking around here, do we?
You only spoke when spoken to. It was to avoid idle chatter by servants.
Why only females banned from smoking? And if you are never supposed to be heard how do you answer the questions asked of you by the ladies and gentlemen? Some funky rules..
YAAAYYY! I'm relevant. :D
An absolutely relevant thread, describing the current situation in many homes in Qatar!
The good old days Brit? These read like some the contracts I've been browsing for maids here and now!
Nice rules, helps both parties without giving much room for dispute and ill feeling except the breakages and damages one (it needs some modification)...:)
Where did those good days go?
The maid courtseying when the master approached, waiting for mamesahib to finish the Pimms before taking and refilling the glass.
Memories :O)
waiting for LP's comment