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• Gary Ler’s Journal wrote:

  January 21, 2006 at 5:10 pm

  My RSSs Mr Brown Rock­son Roy Ng Style­my­words Scott Adams RSSMiyagi
• layyoong wrote:

  April 14, 2006 at 12:36 am

  I saw this sign quite some time back at Katong Mall and fun­nily enough, I was con­tem­plat­ing pho­tograph­ing it and send­ing it to MOM today…
• Hai~Ren wrote:

  April 14, 2006 at 2:55 am

  What the-?
• Neek wrote:

  April 14, 2006 at 4:08 am

  They might as well add

  “Will wash the out­side of win­dows, eat pig swill, and ser­vice the mas­ter every now and then”
• Links2Singapore wrote:

  April 14, 2006 at 1:07 pm

  Saw on the TV the other day that Sin­ga­porean work longest hours among the Asian coun­tries. So I guess we are of no diif­fer­ent, we work to pay our BILLs and our maid.

  SINGAPO REN
  No Off Day
  Always
  Pay and Pay

  If LIFE were a thing that money can buy
  The rich will live and the poor will die
  But GOD in his wis­dom has make it so
  That the rich and the poor together must go!

  No off day today, take a break HERE!
• Amelia Earhart wrote:

  April 14, 2006 at 7:42 pm

  Sin­ga­pore­ans make the worst bosses. It’s a vicious cycle. Up to us to break out of it.
• steven wrote:

  April 14, 2006 at 9:34 pm

  Sad thing is “WE DO TRADE SLAVES”, in Europe and in Sin­ga­pore. The sex slav­ery trade is huge, in Britain they trade East Euro­peans in Sg its Viet­namese, Thai etc…
• cindy wrote:

  April 15, 2006 at 6:54 am

  No off day = ille­gal. I’m sure there has to be some employ­ment law statute that gov­erns this!

  Right?

  
• cindy wrote:

  April 15, 2006 at 7:01 am

  Oh and i don’t have maids. And never grew up with one. And I get sad when I see the way some kids treat their maids (I’m talk­ing 6-year-olds here), they shout at them and throw tantrums and order them around because they know that the maids can’t scold them like their par­ents can.
• Linda Chia wrote:

  April 16, 2006 at 11:31 pm

  Cindy,

  I too, had thought that it was def­i­nitely inhu­mane, and Sin­ga­pore couldn’t pos­si­ble allow it right?

  Then I heard some­thing on tv some­time back that went along the lines of maids sign­ing on the con­tracts that bound them­selves to no off days, and some lame ass com­men­tary on tv made by some lame ass I donno who (I hope it’s not one of our min­is­ters!) about how a manda­tory day off would incon­ve­nience the employers.

  Fuck­ing insane.

  It’s a wild guess but I’m pretty sure there are maids who either had no choice (sign the agree­ment or have no work) or who don’t know what they are sign­ing them­selves into.

  At times like these, maids — our domes­tic helpers that made life eas­ier for us (who hap­pened to be luck­ier and born at the “right” place at the “right” time), should be protected.

  If the tables were turned, I’m not sure how many of us would gladly send our wife//girlfriend/sister to a dif­fer­ent coun­try with such employ­ment terms.
• lunatic fringe wrote:

  April 17, 2006 at 5:22 pm

  Typ­i­cal of Sin­ga­pore Inc. while we our­selves look for work-life bal­ance, it only applies to us and not to peo­ple who work for us. Or per­haps it’s pre­cisely we do not get work-life bal­ance in our own lives so we dish it out to the domes­tic help. Truly reflec­tive of the crass cap­i­tal­ism that dri­ves us, exploit the fac­tors of pro­duc­tion for max­i­mum ben­e­fit to the “owner/employer”.
• mrbrown: L'infantile terrible of Singapore wrote:

  October 14, 2006 at 7:19 pm

  Tired of hav­ing maids that need rest?…

  Tired of hav­ing maids that need rest?…