"Dear Jafir,
I've tried everything! Iron bars, restraints, beatings, death threats, rape, branding with hot irons, shock collars, food deprivation, you name it. But the maids still leave! HELP!
-- Mohammad, Al Jawf city"
Posted on 03/31/2008 2:32:22 PM PDT by Leisler
JEDDAH, 31 March 2008 — Spoil your housemaid if you want to keep her. Give her a salary hike, a day off each week and above all be gentle with her. This is the advice people should heed if they want to ensure their maids do not begin looking for employment elsewhere.
An estimated 7,000 maids run away from their Saudi employers each year. “Spoiling maids is the best way to keep them. Employers don’t want to lose their maids and go through the hassle of spending SR7,000 ($186/month) and reams of red tape to get a new one,” said a Saudi who went through the bitter experience.
The Kingdom is home to around 3 million foreign maids. Many work here illegally after arriving on pilgrim visas. Most housemaids in the Kingdom are Indonesian, around 1 million according to sources at the Indonesian Embassy. Filipinos, Sri Lankans, Indians and Moroccans follow.
Labor experts say that the main reasons for maids running away include low pay and abuse. Some women are driven to run away to marry men of their own nationalities, while others resort to illegal activities to earn cash.
Stories of maids running away several hours after arriving in the Kingdom, let alone weeks or months after joining their employers, have also been reported in the local media.
One Indonesian housemaid reportedly fled from her employer while being driven home from the airport. According to media reports, the maid told her employer that she wanted some water, and so he pulled up and went into a store to get water for her. When he returned, the maid had disappeared.
Others wait until the paperwork for their iqamas have been completed and then run away. However, in most cases they wait several months or even years until they become familiar with the Kingdom and acquaint themselves with better opportunities.
Abdul Qader Hussein, a teacher, has seen several of his housemaids run away.
“I used all means, such as locking the maid in her room at night and securing windows with iron grills, but they were of no avail. I can’t do without a maid because my wife is also a teacher,” he said.
“Finally, a friend of mine told me the secret of keeping a maid for long term. Give her a pay hike and treat her well. From SR700 I raised her salary to SR1,200, the highest amount she is likely to earn if she runs away. It worked. She is with us now for over two years. None of the maids in the past stayed for more than a couple of months,” he said, adding that he also gives his maid occasional gifts in the form of cash or clothes.
Maj. Muhammad Al-Hussein, spokesman of the Passports Department in the Makkah region, said that in most cases maids run away with the help of middlemen of their own nationality.
“They promise them new jobs with better pay and work atmosphere, including a weekly holiday, which Saudi sponsors seldom give,” he said.
“It has also been reported that some ill-treated maids have resorted to acts of vengeance before running away,” Al-Hussein added. According to one such report, two Indonesian and Filipino maids made their employers consume food containing urine, stool and blood.
Ahmad Al-Ghamdi, who runs a recruitment firm in Jeddah, said maids could be stopped from running away only if Saudi families learn to treat them with kindness like family members. “They should never be viewed with suspicion and prejudice,” he added.
66 cents an hour at a 10 hour day. (Plus benefits, if any, of multiple family member rapes).
My eyes must be bad: I thought it said, “Wanna Keep Your Maid? Pimp Her!”
Your eyes (optical sensor unit) can be fine, you also have to process the signal. You could have a CPU problem. For instance, weakly cleaning of CPU unit with vodka can produce false displays until all vodka evaporates out of housing.
Hmmm... experiment time - I wonder if rum will provide the same benefit?
Abdul Qader Hussein, a teacher, has seen several of his housemaids run away.
“I used all means, such as locking the maid in her room at night and securing windows with iron grills, but they were of no avail.
You can’t make this stuff up. F’in Savages.
Could Mr.Obvious do a few shows from Saudi Arabia?
Note that after the entire article is read that the problem is still the maids. UFB
She sure acts like it.
"Dear Jafir,
I've tried everything! Iron bars, restraints, beatings, death threats, rape, branding with hot irons, shock collars, food deprivation, you name it. But the maids still leave! HELP!
-- Mohammad, Al Jawf city"
Note they refer to a maid leaving as “running away”.
Sugar in the rum with unit body heat produces layers of inhibiting build-up over time. Best stick to pure vodka solvent.
DEAR MOHAMMED:
Praise be to Allah that you have tried so hard to keep your maid staff in line. I know that it can be frustrating. Restraints and shock collars only hamper your maid in performing her duties, and rapes and beatings of course are normal benefits. She may feel that there is an advantage in leaving your service for her home country.
A wise sheikh will research her family and find personal data on them, then threaten the maid with death or torture of her family if she leaves you. This will assure loyal service and free you from worry.
And Allaah knows best.
Yes, if you beat them as they should be beaten, then they might have trouble of working. Of course since they are not working, you need not pay them, and frankly, pulling off the feedbag isn't such a bad idea either for the ungrateful.
Anyways, I don't pay them the days they don't work ( 66 cents, a day ). Also, since I do feed them so that they can heal up, I charge them those days. Room and board are only for working days, not laying around like some Jew woman. Also, don't let them do the “I can work shuffle” trick where they drag themselves back to work, supposedly, and try to be paid even though they are injured. What I do is loan them out to my cousin, Mohamed, who has the concrete block plant. That's the way to find out if they are trying to cheat you out of your 66 cents!
Peace Be Upon You,
Ali
Interpetation: she mouthed off - they killed her and hid the body under the sand. Women on their own in Saudi? Yeah, right - no one would notice that... especially women sooooo poor and dependent that they'll work for 50 cents an hour - have no relatives in Saudi and can't afford to get home. Yep, she just walked off to get a higher paying job in a bank...
Ummm, they work 7 days a week.
When are the US liberals going to start whining about the Saudi maid sweatshops?
Yeah...what a lovely bunch of guys and gals.
They would probably love a 10 hour day. I have a feeling that a 16 hour day is probably more likely.
You’ve got that right ,, they get no time off .... on top of that they are expected to clean up after the kids poop in a corner (the arabs don’t toilet train their kids... honest) and they are expected to not complain when raped by the eldest son in the family... all for about $200/wk ... I live in Orlando ,, I get all the stories from people in the hotel biz when these degenerates in dirty nightshirts come to see Disney...
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