These days, our house, our kids, and our lives depend on our domestic help. Just one day of them taking a leave makes us pull our hair. But with everyone owning a mobile phone, at least house-helps get to inform us that they’ll be taking the day off.
The house-help of this Twitter user also made a WhatsApp group of all of the houses she works at to update them about her leaves.
Most of us would do the same. We would either send a leave application via email to our boss or update them about our leave plans over WhatsApp. But somehow, a domestic help doing the same may come across as a surprise to some.
Taking to the microblogging site, the user shared:
“Our maid just made a WhatsApp group of all the houses she works at to update about her leave plans.”
Soon after she posted this tweet, some people also joked about how their ‘maids’ have become advanced and professional.
I hoe she changed settings to Only Admins.
— Godman Chikna (@Madan_Chikna) February 22, 2023
Sahi hai😅😅 Hope this ultra systematic nature reflects in her work too😅
— Roopa B (@Roopa13B) February 22, 2023
E-maid.
— Adarsh (@WhyAdarsh) February 22, 2023
Was she in corporate before this
— Divyaansh Yaadav⚡ (@Dvyaansh) February 22, 2023
mera desh , mera desh, mera desh badal rha he , aage badh rha he
— Manan Dave (@davemanan247) February 22, 2023
And in today’s time for people who totally depend on maids, this group is more important than the office group l, I bet 🤣😅
— Sachin Joshi (@joshisachin247) February 22, 2023
May be its the only group ever MAID with one employee and many employers 😂
— mohan krishna (@mohan_mon) February 22, 2023
Only if I was this organized and systematic…i would be the manager in my team. But #aalas
— Harsh Patnaik (@patnaikharsh) February 22, 2023
Smart maid
— The Wrong Person! (@PrathmeshSanga9) February 22, 2023
However, there was another set of people who thought it’s not funny. In fact, it was tone-deaf to make condescending ‘jokes’ about domestic workers when they would have also done the same.
How’s that funny?
— Aayan Zaidi (@aayan_zaidi) February 22, 2023
Domestic worker > house hel > maid > bai > kaamwali
— Kantala (@SevMamraFc) February 23, 2023
Without those two emojis giving away the condescending intent, this story had the making of one of those wholesome viral tweets. https://t.co/rVP34HZiGu
— Suhel Banerjee (@suhel) February 24, 2023
Thread on the arrogance of the privileged and their contempt for the working class. https://t.co/LL72CMVyu5
— Clifton D' Rozario (@clifroz) February 23, 2023
“Haha lower income woman made a WhatsApp group to manage her work, *laugh emoji*”….is the gist of this tweet. Yikes https://t.co/8NorUZZUmq
— Sabah (@_sabahgurmat) February 23, 2023
House-help, not maid. Also, what's so funny about this, idk. You don't mail/message your employers about your leave plans?? Just because she is not formally employed, doesn't mean she doesn't deserve to be treated like an actual employee. https://t.co/zswMWCRX8r
— Mona Lisa ✨ (@preyoncex) February 22, 2023
What’s 😂 about this? Doesn’t this kosha person text/email their coworkers before taking time off? https://t.co/2e0y8Ndzu3
— Sayani D. (@sayani181) February 23, 2023
what is so funny about this ,,, reeks of casteism and classism https://t.co/DdmCOs1kdZ
— s (@amithedrama97) February 23, 2023
People really went a little overboard with the jokes, maybe because her profession is not considered tech-savvy enough. What do you think?