Rank: Elder Joined: 1/17/2013 Posts: 4,693 Location: Earth
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chemos wrote:Wendz wrote:famooz wrote:For Sport wrote:famooz wrote:Wewe @ Dash,i hope hiyo makofi is not to deny your house-help a pay hike-if you have one or a decent pay in future if you ever get one....I agree our government lacks the moral authority to tell people what they can and cannot pay house-helps but this does not mean that the current exploitation of house-helps should continue. what amounts to exploitation? waking up at 5am or even earlier to wash clothes,make breakfast before the 'people of the house' wake up.After 8.30am,2 kids; 2yrs and 3 yrs are up and crying for mummy,food etc. House-help feeds them,plays with them,makes them lunch,puts them to sleep,goes to clean the house before the kids wake up,one of the kids wakes up earlier than expected,house-helps holds him,and tries to light the jiko to put githeri that needs to iva and be packed in the fridge.  It is evening,now all kids are running up and down,mummy has arrived,needs her evening chai,she will watch the kids as the househelp makes dinner,'people of the house' take time to eat.one of the kids is yelling,does not want mukimo,house-help is called to feed the kid. house help must wait for them to eat so that she can scrub the sufuria and wash dishes before going to bed. Kids have refused to sleep so house girl must watch them as 'the people of the house' are too tired to watch the kids Kitu kama hiyo.... and in some households it is worse...end month 2k kwa mfuko. Now,hata kama this person lives under your roof and eats your food,IMHO,this is exploitation.... You are very right.... I see your point. but help me figure this out My receptionist salary at some miserable lawyer's office in town is 15k. after deductions, its say 14k. Ya mzee as a city council employee clumping the vehicles in town is 20k. after deductions its 18k. We have 2 kids (tulipanga uzazi so one kid is 6yrs the other is 2yrs) and a housegal. Now lets do our budget. Total income 32k Less house rent 5k less busfare (we live in kayole where we can afford the house rent so fare is 100bob each per day) 6k shopping for the month 6k child's school at the neighbourhood 3k per month vegetables and other foods 3k water + electricity 500 Mzee took a loan with the sacco to buy a plot in mwiki which he is paying 5k Housegal we pay 2k What's that total? 30,500/= those kids better not think of getting sick! or contemplate wearing clothes... Na hakuna savings... mama hajasaidiwa yoyote, hakuna burial ya neighbour's mother contribution, hakuna lunch, and it better not rain coz the fare goes up... not even sure they charge 50bob to kayole anyway!! Sasa, 7k itatoka wapi? lets say, an extra 5k itatoka wapi? Nyeti sana maswali haya.. It's time wamama took to the streets. This does not make sense at all The decision makers live in affluent neighbourhoods and can afford to pay their househelps 20k min.They do relate with the ordinary Kenyan like the ones described above.They lost touch with humanity the moment they climbed the ladder.What a shame. In a developing country like ours,these people need to go back to the drawing board sober minded.
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