Domestic Helper

       

                      Domestic Helper(外傭)

    Seeing the march event held by migrant workers in the newspaper yesterday, I recalled the foreign workers I trained in the high-tech industry. They are from the Philippines, and most of them have a bachelor degree. They are luckier and tougher in comparison with those Indonesians abused by their employers. Indonesians are soft-spoken and easily intimidated while Filipinos are smart and fight for their own rights. In addition, their English abilities are better than Indonesians’ as well as some Taiwanese’s. Some of them are not easily tamed, and you have to figure out how to deal with them. The management was a challenge to the high-ranking supervisors. Back then, I had to help and interpret what the manager said to the foreign workers. I wouldn’t say people never made mistakes, and once you did you paid for it. That’s how people manage and run a company.

   Being a teenager, I believed in the basic goodness of people. However, I now realized there is also basic badness of people after experiencing and handling many things in real world. We are not Peter Pan, and we will get wiser over time. People should get stronger and put on another mask while working. This is what I learn from my bitter experience. “ I used to act like you, but I change myself and defend myself with wisdom and tactics,” said a then-supervisor in a workplace. I appreciated the advice she gave, and she did quite well there. I can help chuckling about how innocent I was before.

 

Dear friends,

       Life is just like a journey, and you will see many different people and encounter many things along the way. Laugh yourself out of those silly and intriguing things, but remember to move on and encourage yourself and stand up for yourself.

     

    

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        15-Dec-15