On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 10:48 PM, Thaths <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 8:13 AM, Divya Manian <[email protected]> wrote: >> I am just curious why it is so hard in cities to find "professional" labor >> despite being willing to pay above market rates. Is it because the smart >> ones have already moved on to better paying jobs, and those left are those >> who are unwilling to work? > > The availability of better paying jobs is one reason. Another is the > lack of dignity of labor for the more menial jobs in India. And a > third reason is that maids, car drivers, cooks, etc. working at > someone's home does not get many benefits
Apparently all the reliable ones make better money and easier timings by working as cooks in bachelor households (at least thats the situation where my folks are). Yeah the average wages are so pitiful that few want these job ... I have asked around even for 3x 4x times the current market rate there is no one who really knows how to clean.
