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PoindexterOglethorpe

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28. Good grief!

Reply to Yavin4 (Original post)

Fri Dec 29, 2017, 04:59 PM

Dec 2017

Just keeping a 30,000 square foot home clean is full time work for two people. Maybe three.

Childcare. That's another full time job.

The preparing of meals is another full time job for one. Laundry duties could be part time. Maybe. Or the laundry person could do the errand running.

In any case, it looks to me as if they're trying to get two people to do the work of at least four people, more like six.

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Couple offer $150K salary to cook, clean and run errands (This is where the tax cut is going.) [View all] Yavin4 Dec 2017 OP

This couple will be busy. Thats for sure. Nt Grammy23 Dec 2017 #1

Sounds LIke A 24 Hour Per Day Job Me. Dec 2017 #2

2018 versions of Mr. Carson and Mrs. Hughes mnhtnbb Dec 2017 #3

Was thinking the same thing ... Le Gaucher Jan 2018 #35

Very good domestic workers can earn high salaries from the wealthy. MineralMan Dec 2017 #4

Even with no housing costs, $75,000 a piece seems low in NYC. AJT Dec 2017 #9

A lot of very rich people hire help from one of several "schools" that train domestic help. dixiegrrrrl Dec 2017 #23

Yup. I looked into that many years ago, as a possible MineralMan Dec 2017 #24

Not enough. Cheap bastards. NT enough Dec 2017 #5

No thanks. The rich can wipe their own asses. FSogol Dec 2017 #6

our rich are aspiring to Henry VII levels of royalty DBoon Dec 2017 #7

+1 sarcasmo Dec 2017 #33

About $13/hr VMA131Marine Dec 2017 #8

how did you get two burnbaby Dec 2017 #10

They're hiring 'a couple' VMA131Marine Dec 2017 #12

each person is 8 hours per day NewJeffCT Dec 2017 #31

The workload is not that heavy, except when the owners are in residence. MineralMan Dec 2017 #11

This couldn't be Trump's residence could it.... VMA131Marine Dec 2017 #13

I disagree with you so bigly that this is where the tax cuts are going. nm Ferrets are Cool Dec 2017 #14

Are you suggesting they should be taxed so heavily so as not be able to afford domestic help? Marengo Dec 2017 #15

This is the inevitable result of concentrating wealth into fewer and fewer hands. Yavin4 Dec 2017 #17

Unless I missed it, the article mentions nothing about the tax cut being the primary enabler... Marengo Dec 2017 #18

The connection is this. Yavin4 Dec 2017 #20

Museum quality cleaning...I laughed my ass off ChubbyStar Dec 2017 #16

Not enough, especially for NYC. Tatiana Dec 2017 #19

$50-75K per person in NYC is not a high salary. And they wouldn't be able pnwmom Dec 2017 #21

Sounds pretty good to start, assuming living quarters are decent. In addition to housing they get Hoyt Dec 2017 #29

That's a pretty decent salary, or a pretty awful one, linuxman Dec 2017 #22

I think it said NewJeffCT Dec 2017 #32

Modern day servitude how "civilized " Kimchijeon Dec 2017 #25

I wonder if this is a contract labor position WhiteTara Dec 2017 #26

agreed gopiscrap Dec 2017 #27

Good grief! PoindexterOglethorpe Dec 2017 #28

Pffft Takket Dec 2017 #30

To me, the problem isn't the job so much as the absolute tone-deafness of the ad. LisaM Jan 2018 #34