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Post by audrey notwhatsheusedtobe on Jul 18, 2008 11:39:51 GMT
Russia - 1 South Africa - 0
That South African woman was a fashion car crash and was clearly jealous of the Russian bird (who pwned big time!). She should have gone all 'Eastern Promises' on her. I couldn't work out whether the mum and her kids were walking around with constantly damp hair, or just really dirty hair.
It's interesting that consistently it's the men who are most popular - possibly there is only room for one woman in most households? I am finding the slave labour wages shocking though: £60 a week?! That's about a pound an hour for what they're expected to do.
This show is actually really cool in flagging up how appallingly domestic workers can be treated, both in terms if wages and conditions and in terms of being talked to like shit. It's actually disgusting and I hope some of the employers on the show are suitably ashamed.
I hate to say it but the problem here is the moneyed working classes enjoying the novelty of pissing all over their own. My mum used to be a cleaner for properly old school posh folks and they always treated her really nice. The pay these days is actually around £10 an hour, so where the fuckers on this show are getting their ideas of wages from I don't know. Grrr!
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Post by cathybradford on Jul 18, 2008 15:01:27 GMT
It's interesting that consistently it's the men who are most popular - possibly there is only room for one woman in most households? I am finding the slave labour wages shocking though: £60 a week?! That's about a pound an hour for what they're expected to do. Thing is au pairs aren't expected to do what these two family expected of them, and the Russian girl knew that. Room and bored and £60 a week is pretty standard because really an au pair should be just an extra pair of hands expected to offer a bit of a helping hand (usually with the kids) in return for their upkeep, sort of more of a member of the household, expected to help round the house as such. Though many think they can get away with using an au pair as a cheaper nanny, cleaner, maid and cook all in one. It's a shame because it is a great thing to do (I did it a couple of times in the US). It's a shame one of the families wasn't a leech showing the good side. That poor young girl working for the hairdresser just ended up a skivvy on shit wages without even living there.
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Post by Maureen on Jul 21, 2008 22:12:10 GMT
I watch this programme through my fingers and am shaking and angry at the end of it.
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Post by SweatShop on Jul 23, 2008 21:36:36 GMT
I hadn't watched this before but I did tonight. God, the employers are complete bastards, aren't they? A lot of it is uncomfortable to watch. And the dad saying the bloke handled his stupid daughter's party badly was talking out of his arse. I think he did pretty damn well considering he was dealing with a large number of stroppy posh adolescents being drunk and highly irritating. The voice over is a bit strange, too soothing rather than what the show would require. I noticed that too. I read in the credits that the voiceover is done by rather great actress Janet McTeer (the only thing that springs to mind that people might remember her from is being The Chancellor in "The Amazing Mrs Pritchard".) Anyone who saw her in that or anything else will know she's perfectly capable to doing a snarky voiceover.
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