According to Chinese culture, a kind boss should treat domestic workers as family members.
This is why some Hong Kong employers often ask their domestic workers to take food freely from the refrigerator and invite their maids to have dinner together with the family at the same table.
However, domestic workers may have different views. They may prefer not to take any food from the refrigerator for themselves and have their dinner alone in the kitchen. Many of them intend to keep a distance from their bosses.
It is hard for some Hong Kong employers to understand why their kind suggestions are rejected.
Fortunately, a woman has finally solved her long-standing puzzlement about her domestic worker’s meal preferences after she talked to some Filipino maids.
She realised that her intention to provide good food to her domestic workers might not have been the best idea, as many maids prefer to get the standard food allowance of HK$1,053 (US$135) and make their favorite dishes such as adobo, which consists of meat or seafood in vinegar and soy sauce.
Many domestic workers intend to keep a distance from their bosses as a way to show their respects. Some others are worried that a close relationship may come with a heavier workload. Many maids prefer to take their dinner in the kitchen alone simply because they want a private time after a full day of work.
Thinking from the domestic workers’ perspectives is what an employer should do.
(Updated at 11:50pm on Dec. 15, 2017)
Salamat sa Dios nakatagpo din ako ng very kind ma amo di gaya ng amo ko jan sa HK grabe
Mostly nga ang mga
amo dito greedy magbigay ng pagkain s ktulong Kagaya s akin kung saan buto sk ibigay s akin 24 oras p Ang trabaho MLK nga Ang shod bogbog Ang Ktwan s mdming trabaho Sana maaksyonan n to ng consulado n maibigay Ang allowance s ktulong
sakin nman dito sa amo ko dati madamot cla sakin sa pagkain but I fights my rights that I need to eat to and enough sleep so that I have a strength to do my job on them after that maging ok nmn ang tulog ko at kain ko sa kanila until now….maybe sometimes we need to voice in our part namn kung minsan kung talaga nga nmang nagpapakatangahan cla…
Hope my employer can read this
Kun ayaw nila ibigay ang food allowance kun. Kulang nga ang pagkain its better na wag u kainin bumili kayo ng food nyo ipunin ang resibo at i refund nyo nyo in the end of the month tapos.pag ayaw ibigay i report sa labor aba terminate kun terminate kaysa naman mamatay sa gutom.
I buy my own food for breakfast and lunch, I only can eat thier food, in dinner, they suppose not to hire a helper if they are not doing the right and proper treatment to their helper ,that’s why I need to save more money for my own food, its sad to think on this kind of employer.But GOD always provide for my Food, Amen.
Yeah…
For Indonesian too
we have the same reason????
What? I never heard of an employer here in HK ever wanting their maids provide good food. If there are but only to watch them which makes them all the more not able to eat as should.. Been here more than 2o years, I have yet to know og one Chinese employer who invites and provides food preferred by maids. Mostly are not even given food equal to their supposed monthly food allowance. That;s what is common.
Hahaha so true
Di kc uso ang serving spoon sa ilang amo….yun ang isang rason
1 aq sa maswerte ng amo,kc khit salo salo kami kumakain filipino fud pgkain ko at naluluto ko lhat ng gusto kung kainin…dnila pinipilit yong ayaw ko…
. a short if sharing my employers wants me to join evry meals and they put many food in my plate how blessed i am…during my day off they let me eat some left over food in the ref,my popo loved to gave me food even working days loved to gave me many clothes lol i dont have the space closet to put????i wish some employer will change thr treatment towards my co helpers out there…some times its just depend on us how we show our sef to them and how they will responds..
I agree
some employers don’t use serving spoons on dishes, some use their chopsticks as toothpick,w/c is very unhygienic, they talk so loud during meals, etc,etc
Right! Right! ????????
Verryyyyy…. True……..????
Sana nga mabasa ng amo ko ito,
Boring ang pagkain ng mga amo ko,
Nida Naz Laynes Naku sakin binibilang ang itlog.. kaya pag gusto ko bumibili ako…
Lucky for me di ko problem ang food coz my employer ask me also what i want to eat and what kind of taste i usually eat.Nagkakasundo naman kami pagdating sa food and eating together with them with chikahan the bond of housekeeper and the employer is better.
my employer are nicest people I’ve known..i can eat anything I want..minsan nga subra na..kya nanhihinayang tlga ako sa mga tira..blessed ako sa kanila..kahit di cla mayaman pero abunda k nman