SINGAPORE: The newest of three helpers working in a 3-storey landed property took to social media because of how tiring her daily routine was.

In an anonymous post, the maid wrote that this was her first month working in the house, whereas the other two helpers had already been there for 6 to 8 months. She said that she had to wake up at 5 am daily and she must shower and eat breakfast. The maid said: “This (sic) are very important bcoz if you skip this, you can no longer do it even in some spare time, not allowed to do your personal stuffs even in vacant hours for a reason”.

Her work would start at 6.30 am and finish by 11.30 pm but they would only get a 5-minute break for lunch at 2.30 pm or 3 pm, with dinner being at 11.30 pm after they finish their work. However, the maid added that sometimes after work, “we’re already out of appetite instead we just spend few minutes to our families before we sleep”.

“we have a service call, once we are done w our daily works then we will just wait and stand by and wait for the call. Every minute there’s a call like need food need snacks need water do this do that etc., everything are upon request and one by one as in 1 by 1. We keep on running here and there to 3 storey landed house from 630am to 1130pm. We can’t nap we can not use HP, like a said, every one must be always alert so once they call, you should fly”, the maid wrote. She added that they were required to massage 1 to...