Call for http://singaporemaid.blogspot.com to be removed

[verykiasu2010]

the balance of power has tilted : maid has better leverage these days

[Chu Liu Xiang]

minnie2004:

dimsum:

Just curious, Chu Liu Xiang, do you engage a maid?

He/she might be a maid herself :yikes:

I'm a maid employer but that does not mean my support will automatically go to all employers. I'm the same but different.

I don't believe all postings by employers (here and elsewhere) are true. There're good/bad employers and maids.

My stand is to support the right cause and not the person,ok? If there's a need to be critical of an employer who's in the wrong then I'll do whatever I can to re-educate him/her my way.

I'm like an independent candidate in an election with an independent mind and not tie to any organization to move in a headless herd

:imcool:

[Chu Liu Xiang]

minnie2004:

LOLMum:

so we have mom and the many groups looking after the maids, who is looking out for the employers?????


we dont have a voice in the papers, organisations etc to fight for employers.

anyway, some complaints by the maids in mom facebook are really :siao:

Exactly. My maid is posting comments about us on her FB, revealing our travel plans, posting pictures of herself taken inside our house. Who's there to protect us? Can I ask her to remove her FB account?

Since a lot of maids have access to internet nowadays, they can by all means go to this blog and post their opinions too. They can also use \"anonymous\" or their real names. They are not as helpless as you think.

Don't we, as employers, talk about our maids too? Regardless of the method use employer/maid talk about each other, ok?

As for taking pictures and travel plan being uploaded onto FB you already admitted that you did not inform your maid initially not to breach your privacy in the other post, right? So, why bring up again?


:xedfingers:

[nms1]

On both sides it is the "bad penny" that spoils it.


As employers we don’t want our maids to have FB because of the small minority who have been bad-mouthing their employees and/or violating privacy.

Looking at it from the maids’ perspective, it is unfair that employers who have unreasonable expectations or have a grudge against their maid are able to post personal details on the blog.

However, just because a few maids are abusing FB does it mean that we have to stoop to their level? Maybe what we need to do is to show them the correct way to conduct oneself. How can we expect them to show restraint when some employers are unable to do so?

Again, just think if your boss was angry with you and he/she went onto a blog and posted your name, IC and your supposed crime there for all to see and you didn’t believe that you had done anything wrong but it prevented you from getting a job somewhere else. How would you feel?

[peapot]

Its best to talk nicely to yr maid’s with FB a/c and explain the risks involved. If the maid post your home address in FB so that some of her friends can mail her things and her 700+ friends can see yr address. Very risky here.

[Chu Liu Xiang]

Look ladies/guys


There's really no way we can control our maid if she wants to talk behind our back reagrdles of what method she chooses. It's the same for us to our boss/neighbour/friend/relative etc.

The important thing is that these talks should not reach us either verbally or visually. If your boss caught you badmouthing him/her then you'll definitely be in trouble, right?

My ex-maid was caught once badmouthing my elderly. Interestingly, she was betrayed by one of the maids which happened to be her own race. I just warned her not to do so again especially in the neighbourhood where the people knows one another.

If there're issues that the employer feels can jeopardise their safety and/or privacy then these must be written down, made known and explained to the maid initially when she joins your household. To your maid these may be just normal chit chat like other maids do.

:xedfingers:

[verykiasu2010]

what is the big issue ? just send the maid home. how much is the loss ? an airticket ? advanced payment to agency ? what is probably a few thousand dollars compared with potential harm which may not be measurable in dollars term ?


if it is a critical matter and is a big issue.

[corneyAmber]

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[tigger88]

ksi:

[Warning from Mod]


When we join the forum, we sign an agreement noting that we would observe proper conduct in the forum. The abbreviation is commonly known as a form of vulgar expression and we are a parenting forum. All posts with regards to that have been removed.

Thanks ksi!

Yes, this is a parenting forum.

[LOLMum]

shouldnt have gone out in the pm. miss the reply i probably got in response to my post..........so many post deleted....


but really should watch that tone and language.