By Sunita Pant bansal
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Everyday Zen
Lata was pretty – a typical Bengali beauty with round face, big red bindi, big eyes and a lovely smile. Even in her faded, worn-out clothes, she carried herself with dignity. Her husband must be a moron, I thought in anger.
Lata has been working as my house-help for over three years now. Touchwood! Getting a house-help is very difficult. Whether or not they are good, are trainable, is yet another issue to be tackled. The worst nightmare is to retain them. Studies show that marketing and HR are among the highest turnover job functions – they obviously haven’t studied the house-help industry!
When Lata started working in our house, she was in dire straits. She needed a job desperately. She had no money for food or rent. Her husband had left her with their two children, and gone back to his village for good. Not just that, he told her that he had decided to live with another woman with children of her own. The last bit was presumably to discourage Lata from asking for any money for child-support.
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