{"id":46969,"date":"2024-07-07T21:32:38","date_gmt":"2024-07-07T11:32:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pinoy-ofw.com\/pinas\/?p=46969"},"modified":"2024-07-24T10:47:04","modified_gmt":"2024-07-24T00:47:04","slug":"domestic-worker-superstitions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pinoy-ofw.com\/pinas\/46969-domestic-worker-superstitions.html","title":{"rendered":"3 Domestic Worker Superstitions You May Not Be Aware Of"},"content":{"rendered":"

Working at home in a foreign land can be a promising start for an overseas Filipino worker striving for success. <\/strong><\/p>\n

But as a newcomer trying to assimilate in a new culture, and new way of living, one can’t help but be cautious. Is my employer nice? Does he or she have a bad attitude? Some even resort to performing superstitions to achieve desirable results. For instance, an Indonesian helper faced jail term in Hong Kong<\/a> for using urine and dirty laundry water into her boss’ tea drink in her belief that doing so will make employers treat her better.<\/p>\n

There are other beliefs, though some are equally sinister as that of the Indonesian helper, but could still raise your eyebrows.<\/p>\n

Show your smile!<\/h2>\n

In Chinese culture, crying or showing “long face” inside the house brings bad luck. We’ve heard about helpers fired by employers for exactly doing the same thing.<\/p>\n

Adulterated drinks<\/h2>\n

This sounds gross. Aside from adding urine, some helpers think adding menstrual blood into their food can help improve employer relationships. Another Indonesian helper did this<\/a> and she faced charges.<\/p>\n

Spitting on food (soup, congee).<\/h2>\n

This is thought to help make employers treat helpers better though we haven’t heard any helper brought to jail for tampering with their sponsor’s food.<\/p>\n

As you may observe, such superstitious beliefs have a common objective: to make employers treat helpers well. While the objective is fair, employing such a tactic is deplorable especially since food is involved in the process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Working at home in a foreign land can be a promising start for an overseas Filipino worker striving for success. But as a newcomer trying to assimilate in a new culture, and new way of living, one can’t help but be cautious. Is my employer nice? Does he or she have a bad attitude? Some […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39655,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[132],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ofw-family"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pinoy-ofw.com\/pinas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pinoy-ofw.com\/pinas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pinoy-ofw.com\/pinas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pinoy-ofw.com\/pinas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pinoy-ofw.com\/pinas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46969"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pinoy-ofw.com\/pinas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46970,"href":"https:\/\/www.pinoy-ofw.com\/pinas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46969\/revisions\/46970"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pinoy-ofw.com\/pinas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pinoy-ofw.com\/pinas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pinoy-ofw.com\/pinas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pinoy-ofw.com\/pinas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}