Indonesian maid salary to be increased to $450???

[verykiasu2010]

angelia286


if you need a maid, go get one and be happy with it to be able to help you in many ways and to liberate you to be more economically productive

don’t have to be bothered by what others say about needing / not needing a maid. after seeing others’ comments and you re-evaluate your decision process and you still come to the same conclusion - be at peace with it.

[dimsum]

Angelia, Jia You! Hope you can get more and more hours of sleep :ugogirl:

[tamarind]

Anyway, I don’t know why we are discussing whether a maid is a necessity or not in this thread, it is not relevant. Of course people who reads this thread need maids, otherwise there is no need to complain about the increase in pay.

[3Boys]

angelia286:

I read with interest your responses to this discussion of the wage increase of our Indonesian, inexperienced maids. It is apparent that you are quite anti on the women who sees maids as a luxury and not a necessity.

Just to share my experience with you on raising my child from birth to his present age of 1 year.

Dear angelia,
if it work for you, and you can manage it, then go for it.

At no point in any of my posts did I say that working women should not get a maid. I have one myself, it would be hypocrisy.

I do have an issue with the contention that maids are an absolute necessity for ALL working women, and therefore, their wages need to be kept low in order to make them affordable for EVERYBODY. I have a real issue with the fairness of such a construct or the implied entitlement culture it engenders. If you children grow up in an environment where maids do everything, what sort of husband or wife would they be to their future spouses? How will we ever get out of the maid dependency culture we now saddle ourselves with. Yes, we can choose to only focus on our own internal issues, but there are wide implications too.

Good luck, glad you maid has made a difference in your life.

[toddles]

angelia286:

As for me, I was left with the burden of paying off every single expenses and also the rental money to my mother and at the same time, to do housework and also to look after my baby all by myself.

After 1 week of NO SLEEP at all and NO HELP from anybody, I literally collasped, sinking into a deep depression.

So sorry to hear your story... this is worse than being a single parent... reminds me of the saying that women's greatest fear is 怕嫁错郎...

your mum forces you to pay rental cos your family stays in her house?

really feel very sympathetic for your situation. Hope things get better soon for you.

[CJS]

There are people who have grown up children (already working or married off), stays in a HDB flat but keeps a dog and have a maid to look after the dog. Wat do you think ? I personally think this is not money wisely spent and totally unnecessary.

[laughingcat]

CJS:

There are people who have grown up children (already working or married off), stays in a HDB flat but keeps a dog and have a maid to look after the dog. Wat do you think ? I personally think this is not money wisely spent and totally unnecessary.

but seriously that is up to individual household lah. Maybe there are more than that and we might never know.

[MrsSeah]

CJS:

There are people who have grown up children (already working or married off), stays in a HDB flat but keeps a dog and have a maid to look after the dog. Wat do you think ? I personally think this is not money wisely spent and totally unnecessary.

Think with grown up kids, there is no subsidise of the levy. Think they have to pay for higher levy. Since they have the \"extra\" money to engage why not? :? I could only say the dog have better life than the maid lor. I told my colleague that their dogs has better life than me. kekekeke... I still struggering like a cow... :lol:

[fern0324]

3Boys:

How could I not understand what the issues are when the wife I love dearly manages the household with my help? Don't ever question that if you have no knowledge of me or what goes on in my family.

Just because one voices an alternative opinion does not mean that one needs to attacked.

Sheesh :roll:

Hi,

Similarly, pls do not question the \"alternative opinions\" of the rest of the folks here if/when you have \"no knowledge of us or what goes on in our families \"

If you are not comfortable with these \"alternative opinions\" when compared to you own, you are welcome to not participate in this thread

[raynreg]

Hi fern0324


:shock: you really :spank: 3boys?? Can't you just agree to disagree. Everyone has different viewpoint to this issue. If you are comfortable with the increase..so be it. In which case, I'm sure comments posted in this forum is unlikely to change your thoughts ya...