Maids not Allowed to use Regular Elevators in Condo Building.

[Monseratto]

ICON RESIDENCES, GLOBAL CITY, TAGUIG...

[shibby75]

Ahh service elevator naman pala, kala ko pag hagdanin nila.

[shadow]

what's the issue? sa FB mo nanaman nakuha noh? mga tao sa FB mga epal, mga journalist wannabe...

I don;t see anything wrong with the policy.

[Lew_Alcindor]

what's the issue? sa FB mo nanaman nakuha noh? mga tao sa FB mga epal, mga journalist wannabe...

I don;t see anything wrong with the policy.

There is something wrong when do not see what is wrong with this policy.
I understand pets not being allowed in the main elevators. But maids?

What is wrong is you see maids in the same elevator as the owners?

Funny thing is Filipinos complain of discrimination abroad or elsewhere when we do it to our fellow Filipinos.

[badkuk]

E pano yung mga me Dakilang Alalay, magkikita na lang sila sa pupuntahang floor?

Service elevators are typically very slow, most likely it will stop at all floors going up/down since all of them are waiting on it. Deliveries, garbage, etc also use service elevators, so most likely they're full most of the time.

Babalik din yan sa mga amo. Pag nagpabili yan ng McDo, etc. matatagalan kasi di makasakay si Inday.

imho, mas me punto if they limit deliveries, garbage collection etc to service elevators. Madudungisan yung main elevators niyan. Taking the above as is, ang OE naman.

Regarding the DHs in HK: i guess mas OK sa atin kung Pinoy ang nag aapi sa kapwa Pinoy, kesa banyaga yung nag aapi. Hypocrites

[shadow]

E pano yung mga me Dakilang Alalay, magkikita na lang sila sa pupuntahang floor?

Service elevators are typically very slow, most likely it will stop at all floors going up/down since all of them are waiting on it. Deliveries, garbage, etc also use service elevators, so most likely they're full most of the time.

Babalik din yan sa mga amo. Pag nagpabili yan ng McDo, etc. matatagalan kasi di makasakay si Inday.

imho, mas me punto if they limit deliveries, garbage collection etc to service elevators. Madudungisan yung main elevators niyan. Taking the above as is, ang OE naman.

Regarding the DHs in HK: i guess mas OK sa atin kung Pinoy ang nag aapi sa kapwa Pinoy, kesa banyaga yung nag aapi. Hypocrites

hinde naman 24/7 meron deliveries as for garbage collection, scheduled naman ang most upscale building meron garbage chute...hinde laging puno service elevators.

matatagalan lang si inday kung makikipag tsismisan siya bago bumalik.

[ClaNker]

E pano yung mga me Dakilang Alalay, magkikita na lang sila sa pupuntahang floor?

Service elevators are typically very slow, most likely it will stop at all floors going up/down since all of them are waiting on it. Deliveries, garbage, etc also use service elevators, so most likely they're full most of the time.

Babalik din yan sa mga amo. Pag nagpabili yan ng McDo, etc. matatagalan kasi di makasakay si Inday.

imho, mas me punto if they limit deliveries, garbage collection etc to service elevators. Madudungisan yung main elevators niyan. Taking the above as is, ang OE naman.

Regarding the DHs in HK: i guess mas OK sa atin kung Pinoy ang nag aapi sa kapwa Pinoy, kesa banyaga yung nag aapi. Hypocrites

Mga indio lang yang mga yan... Indio...

[shadow]

There is something wrong when do not see what is wrong with this policy.
I understand pets not being allowed in the main elevators. But maids?

What is wrong is you see maids in the same elevator as the owners?

Funny thing is Filipinos complain of discrimination abroad or elsewhere when we do it to our fellow Filipinos.

what;s wrong with the maids using the service elevators? its not about them being in the same elevators with the unit owners...most often than not magbabarkada mga maids sa condos, sabay-sabay sasakay instead na turn mo puno na elevator and you have to wait for the next coach or sa ibang elevator. at least based on my previous experience... I used to lived in a high rise condo for 3 years after getting married...we lived on the top floor 38th floor can you imagine mag intay ka pa ng elevator ulit dahil puno na dahil nakasakay na mga magbabarkadang maids...isang problema yun kahit going down sila sasakay na mga elevator kahit paakyat pa

[170kphlang]

ok lang policy naman na maayos yan. sa mga hotel ganyan din, may service elevators para sa mga empleyado at messengers/delivery people. pwede lang sumabay sa guest elevator mga concierge.

[Monseratto]

Since then, a lively debate on the merits of this policy has erupted with some commentors noting that such policies are commonplace in buildings all over the Philippines. Indeed, in most Filipino households, domestic employees hold a very low place — and are constantly reminded of that place as a matter of family tradition. Filipino maids are often relegated to sleeping on floors and in cramped windowless mosquito-infested “maids’ quarters” which are often just converted pantries and storage rooms.

The Philippines’ Republic Act 10361 or the Batas Kasambahay (Domestic Workers’ Act) has been in effect since March of 2013. The law seeks to raise living standards for the millions of domestic workers toiling in Philippine households by, among others, implementing higher minimum wages, formalising the sector by requiring employment contracts, and mandating social safety net coverage through the Social Security System (SSS), the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth), and the Home Development Mutual Fund (Pag-IBIG).

But the sub-human treatment of maids and other household help in the Philippines has continued despite scores of outrage fads erupting in recent years mainly focused, interestingly enough, on the treatment of Filipino domestic workers overseas, particularly in Hong Kong and Singapore where thousands of them — many of whom are university-educated — are employed

Back in June this year, an Al Jazeera report described how, in a Singapore mall, domestic workers from Indonesia, the Philippines, and Myanmar were on display on store windows, sometimes advertised as being on “super promo” or “special discount” rates. The report sparked a furor over what was regarded as a degrading commoditisation of migrant workers in Singapore. No less than the Philippines’ Vice President Jejomar ‘Jojo’ Binay reportedly expressed “deep concern” over the report calling on the Philippine embassy there to “make proper representations with the Singapore authorities” to investigate this “indignity” these workers are seemingly suffering.

Stepping back to take a broader perspective, it can be noted that the perceived stereotyping of Filipinos as domestic workers by the global community has been a source of outrage for many Filipinos. At almost the same time the furor over maids-on-display in Singapore came to light, another “racism” row erupted in Hong Kong over the depiction of Filipinos as maids in school textbooks.

Indeed, when seeing the elevator access issue from the point-of-view of the Philippines’ luxury condo administrators and their well-heeled owners and tenants, some insight may be drawn from this collective national insecurity. The Philippines, despite its aspirations to becoming a modern democratic egalitarian nation, remains a severely socially-stratified society with hard cultural lines dividing the landed classes consisting of fair-skinned Filipinos descended from the country’s former Spanish and American colonial masters, the mercantile classes dominated by the Filipino-Chinese and Korean community, and the vast “99 percent” working masa classes consisting mainly of the dark-skinned indigenous island population often referred to as the Indios. The legacy of colonial rule in the Philippines remains so potent that the marketing of skin whitening products and surgical procedures that obliterate indio facial features are hugely profitable billion-peso industries in the Philippines. And most revealing of all, the archetypical Filipino showbiz celebrity is overwhelmingly fair-skinned and “blessed” with caucasian or North Asian physical features.

Suffice to say, this recent “racism” incident involving the banning of maids’ access to condo elevators is but the tip of the iceberg of a profound cultural malaise that continues to grip Philippine society much to the consternation of “progressive” new-age “activists” and politicians who espouse modern notions of equality and freedom. Unless Filipinos learn to evaluate these realities about their cultural character with eyes wide open, the Philippines’ “social volcano” will continue to rumble, and may one day erupt violently.

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