If I tell you I have a friend living in a Bungalow, what do you think of the people who live inside there? We imagine they are educated, successful, generous, sociable, communication effectively especially in their business circle, ego very high and very proud ..........right?
Today is Sunday, two maids who are neighbour stop by our shop for foot and back massage. We have a little chat while they are resting in our shop.
Their employers are all stay in the Bungalow in Thomas area. One employer is an lawyer, their parents, the old pa pa and old ma ma are very difficult person. They have 3 maids, our friend here is working as chief cook in the house, and she also take care of the two old folk, the other 2 maids suppose to be her assistants. She has to prepare difference disces for the two old person. If the food is not up to their expectation, they will threw temper and threw the food into the dust bin. The old man love to say, "Fuck you", "stupid" "Go to die la..." "I will slap you and send you back to your country...", "bloody Mary..." This two old couple are "very cute", whenever the wife threw tantrums, the husband will become nice person; and vice-versa. They scold very loud until their neighbour also can hear them.
They don't give any privacy to the maids. They install camera every where in their house, even the toilet if I did not hear wrongly. They have four refrigerators in the house, they always invite friends for majong session. The chief cook has to prepare a lot of dessert, fresh bread for the guest. The oldman some times has friends come over, in font of the friends, they always praise the maids, say their maids are very good, and good cook etc. Once the guest went back, he will start all the nonsense again. But, they have few good things, they pay the maid S$800/month, and the majong kaki will give tips to the chief cook. So, she can earn quite a bit from this house. And they are very generous with their food, the maid won't get hungry.
The other maid is not so lucky then, she always left hungry after the hard work. Their neighbour's mum is a calculating lady, they are very rich, they have 3 other houses beside this bungalow. She is so stingy with the maid that she don't give her enough food to eat. Imagine she is the only maid in this bungalow. She has to do every things in the house, some times she has to operate a heavy police machine to police the marble for the house. After hard work, she just don't give food to the maid. Some times the chief cook will pass some food to her through the fence to her to eat. The old couples are generous with it although they have bad temper and bad mouse. Once, the madam brough the maid to clear up her 3 other houses, after that, again, she did't give her any food.
Their children of aged 27, 28 years old know their mother pattern. The children some times will threw a package or two of instand noodle to the maid's room without letting their mum know. This mum some months hold the wages from the maid, eventually, she has to borrow money from the friends. This maid can't stand her mum's greediness that she decided to go back next week without waiting till the contract end eventhough her contract is going to end in March. She just cannot take it any more. She said the sir and the children are nice people, the sir asked her to stay and promise to give her a raise in salary also can not change her mind.
The chief cook has been in Singapore for 15 years, she contributed all her hard work money to her family, she said in Iloilo, her home town, she is a queen, people respect her, she has a bungalow in her home town, a farm rare the chicken to lay eggs and sell to others, she also own a maid agency in her home town.
She is an entrepreneur and a kind hearted thirty somethings lady. She has help to finance her boy friends for his study for 10 years, that jerk ditched her for other girl after graduation. Her heart was broken and its shut off after that.
Her neighbour from the otherside also not an easy person, they ever lock the Indonesian maid outside of the house and don't let her sleep in her bed. This chief cook saw what happen, pass a chair to the maid, and let the maid climb over to her house and stay there overnight. The next day, the maid went to report police, that employer got warning from the police. It seems that if they got 3 warning letters, they will not able to apply for any new maids to work for them. Eventully that house owner qualleled with her owner over the matter. She said, she dare not too busy body since then.
Three bungalows, all got evil people staying inside. They are rich in money, but they are poor in morale and heart. Frankly, whenever I see the employers was punished for ill treating their maids, I thought that was just an isolated cases. But, after what I heard, I think they are many sick employers aroung even they are in the rich nighbourhood.
Even an old lady who worked as part time maid also ever encounter one situation. After her three hours hardwork in that house, she asked the employer for a cup of water. That owner simply say "No", of course our local part time maid is luckier, because the next time that owner called for help again, she just need to reject it without going back to the same house. But, what can our Indonesian and Phillipino maid suppose to do after took so much trouble to get out of their county and working in the foreign land!
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