Shame on you

Seriously, can we please stop all these maid abusing? It is getting out of hand for too long. Every two days, someone is exposed in the newspaper for severe physical violence and psychological ill treatment towards their domestic helpers. For whatever reason, there is no excuse and no one has the right to ill treat anyone, not even when the recipient is a housemaid.

“She is so stupid, she is so slow.” The commonest excuse.

That is so lame. If these cleaners are any cleverer or faster, they would have chosen another job. We must first understand where they come from and accept their capability.

“They don’t even have the basic common sense.”

True but their job requires them to use physical strength, to do repetitive errands and other things that we are not able nor willing to do. They are not paid for their intelligence or so called common sense (which is subjective at times).

Nefarious acts includes hitting them in the head, burning their body with an electric iron, forcing them to eat feces, deprive them of food etc. Is it true that everyone has a hidden dark side? More appalling is the revelation of the people who commit such crimes. There are teachers, CEO, police staff sergeant and the more recently exposed vice president of sales dept in mediacorps. Most of them are highly educated people. Unfortunately their academic achievements have little to do with their civilized level.

Shame on you.

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