By Vastu - 07/02/2010 17:42 - Nepal

Today, my maid washed my PS3. Yes, with soap and water. FML
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Vastu 5

well. the maid cant pay because we give her 15$ PER month. and we cant deduct it because... IN rural places of Nepal , where my servant comes from, one family consists of 9/10 sons or daughters .. so that 15$ directly goes to her HUGE family.

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judea95 16

You only give her $15 a month? Wow. What an asshole

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Joedbag 8

Check the location, they're in Nepal. I expect that might be something resembling a decent wage out there...

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McCarthyBros 0

Oh my ******* god... people are ignorant and make more assumptions than they ever should. A+B=C is and can be false, especially if it's in a culture/country that you know nothing about. Just because it's done one way in your country doesn't mean it's done the same in another. ******* ethnocentrists can't see past their own bigotry. Who ******* cares "u can afford a maid, ydi"? STFU and get over yourselves because you don't understand a goddamn thing about anything outside of your bubble or the street you live in. Leave the kid alone. Something bad happened to him, he can't afford a replacement, and he's upset. Is that so hard to empathize with? Well, because HIS PARENTS had a maid, it is. Despite the fact he's just a kid. Despite that his country has a different way of life that you don't understand, it's all his fault. Yeah, really. OP, I empathize. I had a PS3 I got for Christmas after my dad passed. My mom used some of his life insurance money to buy it for me (even though I couldn't have cared less about much at the time) and I got some games. I grew to love it, but unfortunately it was stolen. I can't afford another because I work to support myself and go to school (both full time). Besides, I had amazing hours and data on it. A ruined console is a terrible thing for a gamer, casual or not. A ruined/stolen PS3 is terrible for anyone who loves games and movies.

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lowgenius 0

I find it frightening that so many people can make so many social and ethical judgments based on nothing more than knowing this cat's got an x-box and a maid, and everyone can spend all this time constructing these eloquent arguments in support of their position...and yet millions of people are dying, enslaved, both, or worse and not a sound is heard. People can find such passion and energy to argue over a wet PS3, but not to learn the bare minimum about cultures other than theirs (where menial labor like maid service is, like it or not, pretty common and often the only option many people have for survival). If people spent this much energy understanding their governments, the world would be a much better place.

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Spooksu 0

Omfg I can just imagine that stupid Mexican maid from Family Guy...that was ******* hilarious...It's like "no, no, I clean...I clean it no break..." lmfao

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Spooksu 0

"no i don't pay 4 it, no, your fault, you pay"

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sneakytroll 0

you deserve it just because you have a maid you rich prick

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ariie_fml_fml 0

yuh are quite stressed my friend

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stargold 0

why does everyone hate ps3?

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justanotherhuman 21

A few things, OP... First, if you're wealthy enough to have someone clean for you, I should hope you're intelligent enough to leave hired help *instructions* on how to handle your personal belongings. I'm guessing not everyone on the planet knows that a PS3 is an electronic device that shouldn't be 'cleaned' with liquid of any variety. Second, the verbatim of your post leads me to presume the maid is mommy and daddy's doing, which is always a plus, because throwing money at another human being (or employing them; however you want to describe a job) is far simpler than teaching the value of simply keeping clean and/or maintaining your personal property. For the loss. Annnnd third, if your life is now f'ed because your maid ruined your PS3, it's time to stop playing PS3. The same values imbued upon you via the dispersal of money to obtain cleanliness, now leads you to the discovery that it can't buy happiness. Or it can, until the first value system pertaining to cleanliness, gets in the way. It's... hard being able to afford hired help... to clean where you live... but not being able to conceive said hired help, should require instructions on how to handle your property. Like really. Really? What about friends, or at least associates, who could at least give you a few pointers on the legality- not to mention intelligence of hiring someone to do for you, what 99% of the rest of the species considers common sense, and an unworthy extra expenditure. But that's just me; I tend to ramble. ...I'm also going to step out on a limb here, and cite that the weekly cost of a cleaning service prorates the cost of your PS3 by week two. YDI.

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boatkicker 4

IF you actually looked thruogh the comments you'd have seen that the OP actually posted. 1) The maid WAS given instructions not to clean OPs bedroom, where the PS3 was. She did not follow them. 2) The maid IS hired by OPs parents, and regardless of whether or not you think that's appropriate, you can't blame that on the OP. Children do not get to decide what their parents do. Besides that, as a child have you ever tried to keep an entire house clean? I approve of kids keeping their own things (their rooms, and hte messes they make in the rest of the house) clean, and I approve of giving a few chores, but you know what? It's not impossible to have a maid and chores, and OP does clean their own room, and therefore knows how to clean. And teach the value of cleaniness? Having a maid as a teenager isn't going to unteach whatever values you hold. 3) It's not always very hard to afford or find someone to clean your house. If you look at OPs post you'll see the pay her $15, because where OP is, maid service is not an expensive or uncommon thing. Besides, even if by week two there was enough money for a new PS3, its OPs parents paying the maid. He can't fire her and take the money. Now please point out to me the legal issues that you seem to think there are, because I can't imagine that there's anything illegal about hiring help. I'm also curious as to why it's unintelligent to hire someone, and why that means that the child of the people hiring them deserves to have their things ruined. I agree that it's needless spending, but what's wrong with needless spending if you have the money to spend?

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justanotherhuman 21

...reading this now, minus being teenager-clever by means of locking the door and finding entry/exit through other means- and the level of the intelligence involved as per hiring third party; I have to mostly agree with you. Mostly. For a little bit, I was the boat.

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