Cleanliness is next to getting the job
During dinner, a stay-in contractor in our site told me that he had seen a Filipina working as maid in his country. He blatantly asked me how much is the minimum monthly salary an average Filipino receives in a month when we work in our own Country. Maybe in his mind, he expects that we normally receive less than 100 US$ a month since most Filipina maids earn around 200 US$ overseas.I answered him back that it is not that the 200 US$ monthly salary is enticing or huge that women in my Country willingly take the risk to get this job and work in your wagering war-torn country. The problem is we are over-populated. Our economy is not big enough to provide jobs for newly graduates or non-skilled workers alike. Thus, unemployment is a crisis. Our people accept a meager salary from overseas for the sake of just having a job. They also perceived that this is a stepping stone to migrate or find much better jobs in a developed country.
I told him your people are lucky because they are getting more than the worth of their money as these maids are mostly well-trained, educated and caring. Then, I started to be proactive and threw a simple question to him. There are a lot of maids coming from different Countries like India, Sri Lanka, Ethiopia, Indonesia to name a few. But why you prefer Filipinas despite the fact that their salary is high compared to other nationals. He replied that Filipinas are clean apart from being educated and having a good knowledge of English language.
As old adage says that cleanliness is next to Godliness, but it is more than that. Being clean is next to getting the job. I agree that most of us Filipinos are physically clean but very few are morally upright.
posted by Asthong Kutchong @ 3:51 AM
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