Originally posted by Camellias4me:
There r many weird, mad & violent employers in Sg. My neighbour can b heard every morning ard 4am shouting @ her maid. Wats there to do so early in the morning i wonder?

Den again, I've seen plenty of good employers ard though. Those maids dat got lucky r the 1s who had been in sg for more den 4yrs & would rather stay on after their contract finishes. Life is so gd to some (newpaper reported some b4) coz their employers treat them as family not slaves.

I agree with you. Many SG employers are very very demanding and violent to their maids. Perhaps they are venting out their frus or stress on these poor maids.
However, to be fair, we must also realise that maids are foreigners with different cultural backgrounds, we dont really understand them, their educational levels, the way they think etc. Coupled with the fact that they might be mentally stressed or depressed to work in a foreign land, some maids might do crazy stuff even if their employers are nice to them. There's no guarantee that being a nice boss, your maid will not do crazy stuff - we dont even understand how they think or the stress they have. Some of them cant even think rationally. I consider them to be very dangerous... they handle your food, drinks, your kids and grandparents maybe... dunno what they will suddenly do one fine day... scary....
