The fact that wealthy families need to hire private maids to manage and perform housework is probably no longer strange at the present time. For billionaires, hiring maids is extremely important as these people will help them look after and manage their real estate properties in many different places
Working as a maid for the super rich is considered a high-income job (Illustration)
With the special nature of the job, maids or housekeepers of super-rich families are said to receive many benefits such as living in luxury villas, receiving salaries of up to 9 digits or even is to enjoy travel by private jet.
However, besides the “rosy” scenario mentioned above, people who do this job also have to meet a series of extremely strict standards and even have to work hard to meet the employer’s requirements. core.
The dark side of working for the super richIn 2022, a maid who used to work for famous billionaire Jeff Bezos spoke out to expose the injustices she had to endure during 3 years of working at the Amazon boss’s mansion.
Jeff Bezos and his fiancee Lauren Sanchez
Accordingly, Mercedes Wedaa said she worked as a maid at Jeff Bezos’ villa located in the Seattle area, USA from 2019 to 2021. After a long time working, she was promoted to housekeeper. Chief and responsible for serving Jeff Bezos and his girlfriend Lauren Sanchez.
Talking about her time working at the villa, this housekeeper said that during her working time, she and other employees were not allowed to enter the main house or appear when Jeff Bezos and his family were supposed to be at home. except when doing cleaning work.
Villa in Seattle of Amazon “tycoon”.
She also said that the employees were not even allowed to use the bathroom in the villa but would be forced to climb through the laundry room window to get outside and then run along a long path to the lower floor. to the restroom. For this reason, Wedaa and the other housekeepers were said to frequently suffer from urinary tract infections because they “had to ‘hold it’ for most of the day because it was too difficult to get to the bathroom.”
In addition, this person also said that when the Bezos family stayed at the villa, Wedaa and other maids often had to work 10 to 14 hours a day without rest or meal breaks.
Former housekeeper Mercedes Wedaa revealed many things about the process of working at the billionaire’s mansion
Wedaa claims she was eventually fired from her role, after she raised complaints about working conditions and discriminatory behavior. Afterwards, Mercedes Wedaa even sued Jeff Bezos with the above allegations.
Responding to the former housekeeper’s accusations, Harry Korrell, Bezos’ lawyer, wrote in an email to the press: “We have investigated the allegations and they lack basis.”
