RK, You are probably correct. This was the state of affairs in Queen Victoria's Britain when she ascended the throne, I understand.
>From what I can gather from watching a doco-movie on QV, her husband, Prince Albert got annoyed that he could not light a fire in the hearth; when he called his attendant, the attendant told his master that it was not his duty to light it but that of another gentleman; when this gentleman turned up, he told the Prince it wasn't the time of the year yet to light a fire and so on. The Prince got fed up of the situation and this was the beginning of a reform within the palace, and it had its effects subsequently in the world, it appears, by way of down-sizing and multi-skilling. Cheers, Gabriel de Figueiredo. Melbourne - Australia. --- Radhakrishnan Nair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Methinks the practice of over-staffing in India > dates back to the feudal > days. In those days, almost the entire village > population depended on the > zamindar household for livelihood. In most such > households, there were > people exclusively to draw water from the well, to > pound condiments and to > mend fences (literally) etc. > Find local movie times and trailers on Yahoo! Movies. http://au.movies.yahoo.com
