The maids who are high up control the laundry room at Samakee -- if a lower level maid has clothes in the washer and they want it, they'll take out the wet clothes (your clothes!) and throw them on the floor. If a maid is from Burma or the Philippines, they won't let her in the laundry room at all.
Someone at our school hired the kingpin maid without realizing it. She finally figured it out when she saw that all the chores were "subcontracted." There was someone (not the maid) doing the cooking, someone else doing the laundry . . . the maid was outside, just sitting around.
I was kind of turned off by the whole thing, but as soon as I started working 10-12 hours a day (its our busy season for counselors), the house went downhill fast. When I realized my black and white cat was turning black and gray and leaving little black footprints all over the white furniture, I bit the bullet and hired a mafia mae bann ("She no speak English, but she very hard worker! Very hard!")
It was all worth it when I came home to my sparkling clean house. I opened my underwear drawer and saw:
I don't know what I did before I had someone to fold my underwear! How will I ever leave this place?
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This cracks me up! Our pembantu irons and folds my underwear and I am scarily used to it. Of course, she also only dusts what she can see, which is not much since she is about 4 foot 8 inches, but hell, how can I really complain? She irons my freaking underwear!!
Please don't say "It is so hard to find good help these days."
I still get nostalgic for the days when I had a Korean "house boy". It is a lazy man's dream come true!
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