MetaFilter posts tagged with maid

Is this Progress?

Navelgazer — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 21:04:40 -0800

First it was hostess bars, then host bars, then maid/anime cafes, and now this. Where will the madness end? (Note: this idea isn't entirely new in Japan. わんわんァンド (wan-wan rando) does this as sort of a day thing with being able to play with dog. You can peruse their vaguely unsettling "gallery of cuteness" here.

Strange reunion

Artw — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 15:45:13 -0800

Vietnamese maid finds Taiwanese employer is her long-lost dad

Working poverty in Canada

russilwvong — Mon, 01 May 2006 10:34:09 -0800

Maid for a Month. On February 1, Ontario raised its minimum wage from $7.45 to $7.75 per hour. Well-known Toronto Globe and Mail writer Jan Wong: "I thought the best way to tell the story of that 30-cent raise was to work — and live — at the bottom of the food chain. I would find a low-paying job, a low-rent apartment and, single-mom-like, take my boys with me for the month and see how we survived."

Niahmas — Tue, 06 Aug 2002 03:17:13 -0800

Maritess Vs The SuperFriends (Flash)

semmi — Tue, 02 Jul 2002 20:08:50 -0800

Ah, the law in Florida. (NYT) The rich princess pushed her maid down a flight of stairs, but will be allowed to plead no contest to a misdemeanor charge of battery without having to appear in court, pay a $1,000 fine and give a judge a letter of regret about injuries to her Indonesian maid in the incident. All this because the maid cannot be in court. After she went home to Jakarta in May for her mother's funeral, the United States Embassy there denied her a visa to return to Florida and testify on the grounds that she might try to stay in this country illegally. The maid is also the primary witness in a federal investigation of the princess for possibly employing Ms. Soryono under conditions of involuntary servitude, the Justice Department said. After the court hearing in Orlando, this federal investigation appears likely to end without charges.