This post will be more relavant my fellow bloggers from our sub-continent. We are the ones who are fortunate enough to keep a domestic help to help us in our busy schedules (???) and still keep grumbling about them.
My maid is really awesome. If I am with her she will take around 15 minutes to sweep and mop the entire house. But if I am in the kitchen, she finishes the work in 2 minutes. Today I was grinding chutney, in the mixer. Before my chutney is ready she had finished washing 5 clothes. I would have taken atleast 20-25 minutes for the work. That makes her 5 times faster than me. What is she? Some kind of a robot? Or does she know some magic spells? Wish I knew these magic. With all my gadgets I spend too much time in the kitchen -( almost two hours a day !!!) . May be if I use her magic or whatever, I can cook much faster (and tastier??)
And she is so innovative in finding reasons for taking leave, though it will invariably be death of someone. One day her uncle's sister's grand son is dead. Another day her husband's brother's wife's sister is dead. And yet another day her husband's sister's father in law is dead. And she has to go for funeral. And most of the times, these people would have hung themselves to death, or taken poison. I wonder whether number of suicides has increased dramatically or she just wants to add some spice to the story.
If she knew computers she could have opened a website for 30 different excuses to take a day off from your work.
But if we think about it, if we were to work in such circumstances, what would we have done?
My maid is really awesome. If I am with her she will take around 15 minutes to sweep and mop the entire house. But if I am in the kitchen, she finishes the work in 2 minutes. Today I was grinding chutney, in the mixer. Before my chutney is ready she had finished washing 5 clothes. I would have taken atleast 20-25 minutes for the work. That makes her 5 times faster than me. What is she? Some kind of a robot? Or does she know some magic spells? Wish I knew these magic. With all my gadgets I spend too much time in the kitchen -( almost two hours a day !!!) . May be if I use her magic or whatever, I can cook much faster (and tastier??)
And she is so innovative in finding reasons for taking leave, though it will invariably be death of someone. One day her uncle's sister's grand son is dead. Another day her husband's brother's wife's sister is dead. And yet another day her husband's sister's father in law is dead. And she has to go for funeral. And most of the times, these people would have hung themselves to death, or taken poison. I wonder whether number of suicides has increased dramatically or she just wants to add some spice to the story.
If she knew computers she could have opened a website for 30 different excuses to take a day off from your work.
But if we think about it, if we were to work in such circumstances, what would we have done?
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