Govt Doing Little to Protect Us From Abusive Maids, Employers Say - Saudi Arabia BARF Alert

Arab News (Saudi Arabia) ^ | 8 jul 06 | Anon

[6SJ7]

"Center for Maids Affairs". Sounds French.

[TheSpottedOwl]

If the pay was good, the living conditions tolerable, why would they run away? Maybe the "Master" left a couple of details out of the job description???

[daybreakcoming]

My imaginary maids keep running away too. Could it be that I spend too much time on FR?

[D1X1E]

just hilarious. oh how terrible they have to clean or care for their own house and children. lol omg

[Alouette]

FRmail me to be added or removed from this Judaic/pro-Israel/Russian Jewry ping list.

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[Cicero]

This reminds me of the old days, when some of my richer friends of an older generation used to complain endlessly about the "servant problem," something I'm happy to say I have never experienced.

But unlike the Saudis, American bluebloods generally refrained from beating their maids, raping them, locking them in closets, or neglecting to pay them.

Some of the more genteel parts of America used resemble P.G. Woodhouse; someone might lure your chef or butler away with an offer of higher pay. In Saudi Arabia, it's more like what you read about in the history of Islam, when Arabs had Christian slaves whose were expected to obey every whim of their masters or suffer the consequences.

[Alouette]

Once them slaves learn to read an' all, they gets all uppity and think they deserve to be paid, and don't have to put out for the massa an' stuff.

FRmail me to be added or removed from this Judaic/pro-Israel/Russian Jewry ping list.

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[Larry Lucido]

Are there no Saudi women that will work as maids?

Hard to work in a hijab.

[Larry Lucido]

I hate when the maid drinks all my Hennigans and complains about the red spot on the cashmere sweater I gave her.

[Mr. Brightside]

I love cashmere...

[i_dont_chat]

Why, oh why, did God put most of the oil in the Middle-East?

Those folks have more money than sense.

[MilspecRob]

Oh boo finking hoo

I was going to send this to my sister, but her hands are to full to come unglued by a item like this

[Canedawg]

"Once them slaves learn to read an' all, they gets all uppity and think they deserve to be paid, and don't have to put out for the massa an' stuff."

LOL!
Thanks for the ping

[humblegunner]

The Ministry of Social Affairs and police deal with the responsibility of runaway maids at the Center for Maids Affairs.

Center for Maids Affairs Ping.

[Flyer]

Center for Maids Affairs Ping

I don't understand how, but I am on the best damn ping lists on Free Republic.

Thanks to y'all, I I can initiate a meaningful conversation in any setting, with anyone.

[pax_et_bonum]

Center for Maids Affairs Ping.

Maids are having affairs?

Are these old maids, maidens, or dairy maids?

Please respond soon as this is a very exciting and much-anticipated ping!

(Flyer, you're right about us being on the best darn ping lists on FR!)

[Nachoman]

Why don't the Saudis hire Palestinians and give them part of the sandbox to live in? Everybody would be happy, right?

[Convert from ECUSA]

Amen, right on, and tell it!

[Convert from ECUSA]

I should try to feel sorry for others when they are going through troubles. But somehow, a bunch of oil-rich Fraudis complaining about maid trouble just tickles the bleep out of me!