An employer faced a heavy backlash from netizens after she posted a Facebook message criticizing her domestic worker for running up her water bill by bathing too often.
The employer, likely a woman judging from her nickname “Little Cloud,” wrote in a post in Chinese on the Facebook page of Support Group for HK Employers with FDHs that she was angered by her maid bathing at 9pm on Saturday and again early on Sunday before going out for her weekly holiday.
She said such bathing habits would result in a heavy cost burden from her water bill. She also asked other employers in the group whether their domestic workers had similar habits of bathing before and after sleep.
The post was screen-captured and reposted on the Brother-Sister Facebook Club page. Little Cloud was slammed for her unkind comments about her domestic worker.
Many netizens said domestic workers had a right to take a shower when they wished, while any employer who tried to stop them was being unreasonable. Some said Little Cloud should praise her maid for being careful with her personal hygiene.
Taking a shower two or three times a day is normal if it is summer or the indoor ventilation is poor, they said.
Little Cloud was also slammed by netizens for creating a “control freak” image for Hong Kong employers. They added that the Water Supplies Department was providing water to Hong Kong residents at a low price.
Don’t get a helper if you can’t affort it! Don’t be a lazy butt! Do everything by your self!!! Idiot!!!
I wonder if this Cruel Employer can afford to feed his helper with rice or just a noodles.. You should learn how to clean you house, wash your kids butt and learn how to clean you stingy toilet than to get a helper because you don’t deserve to have a helper at all!!
Ha ha nice
if ask to maid working good cleaning house not stop,but want pay the bill woter cip, if the bill up say the maid have over bathing,many employer don’t have haert.
Madam get a Indonesian maid, some of them they take a bath 3 times a week, don’t hire Filipino maid bcoz 99.9% summer time 3 times a day taking a bath, winter time 2 times a day they take a bath, if you wish to save your water bills and electric bills, ????????????????????????????????????
They call it dogyot,
we are more hygenic than other nationalities..because we take a bath 2 to 3 times a day and brushing our teeth 2 to 3 times a day also.
Correctttt….
I bath 1am early sunday and still have to take my bath b4 go out for my day off..around 8am….im pretty sure i didnt cost high water bills ..still in minimum cost….unless i have fill the swimming pool and fish it after an hour….
ang hilig nila ng itik,maski sino pinapatos tapos pigaawayan pa.????????????????
What a shame for this employer doesn’t even know personal hygiene
kasi sila di nag smhuhugas ng harap nila basta papel ok n akahit umebak kaya galit sila satin dahil tayo malinis sa katawan di gaya nila kahit sumisingaw na amoy sa kilikili at harap ayaw pang maligo kamura ng tubig
neng bakit my reklamo ka?sabihin mo sa kanila wag gumawa ng lihis sa tama para hindi sila ilagay una sa listahan.kng alam mo nmn na my kasalanan silang nagawa bakit di pwede ilagay una sa listahan?
alam na this,hahaha.
Hahaha.. yeah agree… ????
My employer’s mom is worse.. every time she went out, she will turn off the shower heater and turn off the gas as well
Hmmm just like my employer,same situation.She always asking me why im taking a bath in the morning Pag aalis ako ng bahay on my day off. Eh naligo na daw ako ng gabi bakit kelangan ko pa daw maligo ng umaga bago umalis eh hnd nmn daw ako pinagpawisan. Kaloka
Haha or other nationality
If i am yr maid maybe u will cry everyday cause bathe more often than yr maid,,,
Madam Little Cloud, I am lucky that you are not my employer. I take a bath in the morning and after work in the evening. I also have a long hair which needs more water to wash comparing to what short hair needs. My boss never said a word. Gee…..pls.understand that we are doing physical work which in summer we sweat a lot so we need to wash ourselves. We Filipinos like to bath no matter what the temperature is so can you please be reasonable and understanding regarding this matter?