At a given signal, the maids could refuse to wash dishes, change diapers, scrub floors, or cook dinner.
Okay, it can get embarrassing sometimes, but it's not the maids' fault if immigration officers constantly suspect Filipinos of sneaking into their countries on tourist visas to work as maids.
So although Ledsinger gets to push the cost of building the hotels and hiring the maids, desk clerks and bellhops onto the franchisees, he also has to depend upon them to uphold quality standards.
World leaders would have no choice but to give in to the maids' demands, for it is a well-known fact that the higher one rises in society, the less willing one is to perform household chores.
The Indonesians' immediate predecessors were the armies of maids from the Philippines, who have become as recognizable a feature of Hong Kong life as the Star Ferry--especially when they gather by the thousands on the streets every Sunday, their day off.
Daenerys is still in shock from the death of her maids and the loss of her dragons.
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It's people like Sunik who helped curtail the suffering of the Philippine maids.
One sultry summer night, David finds himself alone in his Belgravia mansion but for the dog and one of the Filipina maids.
What the Indonesian maids are discovering, however, is that it requires a large army of sympathetic compatriots to gain protection from fraud and employer abuse.
Of course, there are the evidently wealthy local Arabs in their traditional white flowing robes, but you also can spot the Filipino maids, British bankers, American and Korean engineers and a diverse array of Indians all shopping, eating and conversing in the air-cooled commercial oasis.
We told them to not leave their garage doors open, and not to make copies of the outside pedestrian gate key for the legions of maids and gardeners who descended on the complex every morning.
Although the refugees include mechanics and maids, the largest number by far are plantation workers, mainly employed by Chinese Malaysians growing coffee, cocoa or coconuts.
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As Hong Kong became wealthier, local workers' salaries rose to the point that few were willing to work for a maid's salary, and the demand for foreign maids grew.
In the Philippines, the overseas armies of construction workers, maids and managers whose remittances supply much of the country's foreign exchange are hanging on to their dollars in the hope that they will yield more pesos tomorrow a graphic demonstration of the loss of confidence which afflicts the entire region.
There were serf-like doormen, invisible porters who hauled out the trash, a squad of Polish maids who came Wednesday and Friday mornings to pick up after Kendall and scrub the toilet in the Moorish bathroom and tidy up the sunny kitchen where he ate his lunch.
In the 1960s, everyday people, from maids to college students and church members, said "enough is enough" to the back of the bus, separate water fountains and segregated lunch counters.
There are hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions of Philippine maids all over the world.
The action begins as five maids discuss Elektra's obvious madness, and when Elektra enters, her behavior confirms their diagnosis.
Or maybe he was aware that the mass arrival of Philippine maids in Europe was part of some larger plan.
This is no accident: the place was built from the ground up to be the best, with no expense spared, including extensive hidden underground tunnels so you never see maids or room service staff walking around the low rise, spread out property.
The 3, 500-square-meter lot requires two gardeners, and the couple has two live-in maids.
Madams can be abusive, shouting at their maids and locking cupboards on the assumption that all servants are thieves.
There are now 44, 700 Indonesians working in the territory, most of them as maids, a 30% climb from just a year ago.
It is hard to stay angry when there are so many Filipinos earning their living as maids overseas and sending home the dollars that shore up our economy.
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