"earning a good Western wage" If service people required decent wages, there would be no point in living in Russia for many Westerners. That's what seems so exciting for foreigners in Moscow earning "a good Western wage" while their starving Georgian cleaners and nannies are fighting for their physical survival. On a different subject, in Russia you can probably have a four-person team give you a massage for $60 an hour. Why pay for 8 hours of service when you need an hour max. Good point.
Stepashka Mon, 27 Sep 2010 16:35:43 -0400 письмо от David James <[email protected]>: > Well, I do have a past, in St. Petersburg, mostly, as it happens, and I > cleaned my own room, and did my own laundry, while I lived there. In point of > fact, what I have now (after a string of useless people who pretended to clean > for $17-$25 an hour) is a four-person team from a cleaning service, who come > once every two weeks and spend about an hour to thoroughly clean my 3,500 sq > ft house, for which I pay $240 x 26 = $6,240 per year. Call me lazy...but, > I'm retired and reasonably well-off, thanks to aggressive saving during my > working years (in the non-profit world, and I never even came close to > $100,000/year), and I would rather spend my time in the garden and on the > beach. I wasn't actually suggesting that whoever it was should pay > American wages. All I meant was, that if his cleaner is doing such a terrific > job, maybe he could loosen up and pay her something more than the equivalent > of $45/day for 8 or 10 hours of really good housework, that included doing the > laundry and cooking, from what he said. Just because people are desperate, > doesn't mean one has to take advantage of them. But I did assume, perhaps > unfairly, that the person in question was working for a Western firm and > earning a good Western wage. If that is not the case, then, of course, my > comments were off the mark. > David James > Paradise, NH (not NY) > On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 11:00 AM, wab3 <[email protected]> wrote: > Wow ... ! > $60 per hour = $2,400 per week = $124,800 per year ... ! ... for house > cleaning ?! The standard of living in New Hampshire is very, very high! > Sounds like Donald Trump has moved to New Hampshire .... hmmm. don't think > so, sounds more like someone with more cents than sense. > By the way, I will do windows, kitchen and bathroom for $124,800 per year .... > call me ..... > On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 8:01 AM, Len Ganley <[email protected]> > wrote: > Actually you're wrong.... > ? > He's paying $ 60 / hour to EACH of his FOUR maids and Rye is in New > Hampshire not in New York. > ? > 2010/9/27 Human Resources <[email protected]> > Psychologically this is fascinating. > Someone, well... in fairness, someone with a probable past in Russia, writes > that he pays $60/hour for a maid in Rye, N.Y. > Just ... can't... leave... it... behind... you? ?Well, the first step is > admitting that you have an addiction. > -- > "Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little > security will deserve neither and lose both." .... Benjamin Franklin > "No passion so effectively robs the mind of all its powers of acting and > reasoning as fear." .... Edmund Burke > "All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to > remain silent." .... Thomas Jefferson > "Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty > abused to licentiousness." .... George Washington > _______________________________________________ > Expat mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.lists.ru/mailman/listinfo/expat > http://www.expat.ru/forum/ > _______________________________________________ > Expat mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.lists.ru/mailman/listinfo/expat > http://www.expat.ru/forum/ Все возможности @Mail.Ru в твоем мобильном. Просто зайди с телефона на m.mail.ru _______________________________________________ Expat mailing list [email protected] http://www.lists.ru/mailman/listinfo/expat http://www.expat.ru/forum/
