The so called "Pentagon Chief" would not survive a single-week challenge against me in any German forest or the Sahara. Cowards are not my cup of tea. They sacrifice their own comrades to collect badges. #us #servants #hegseth

#White Couple Who Adopted #Black #Kids And Used Them As #Servants Get Hundreds Of Years In #Prison

https://www.boredpanda.com/white-couple-sentenced-100-years-after-forcing-adopted-black-children-servants/

Aides to Elon Musk charged with running the US #government human resources agency have locked #career #civil #servants out of computer systems holding the #personal #data of millions of #federal #employees. https://www.reuters.com/world/us/musk-aides-lock-government-workers-out-computer-systems-us-agency-sources-say-2025-01-31/

THE SAME MASTER

#Greatest #man in #history, had no #servants, yet they called him #Master. Had no #degree, yet they called him #Teacher. Had no #medicine, yet they called him #Healer. He had no #army, yet #kings feared Him. He #won no #military #battles, yet He conquered the #world. He committed no #crime, yet they crucified Him. He was buried in a #tomb, yet He #lives #today #amen

_The Evening Post_, 23 May 1924:
                DOMESTIC HELP
      SERVANTS OFFERING IN
                  AUCKLAND
  PRIVATE SERVICE NOT WANTED
(BY TELEGRAPH.—SPECIAL TO THE POST.)
                              AUCKLAND, This Day.
   A domestic help problem in Auckland at present is to place those seeking engagement—certainly an unusual state of affairs. At the same time finding help for a private house is a difficult proposition, although probably not so acute as it has been in the past.…
  “Several positions offered this morning were filled before they were entered on the books,” said the proprietor of another registry. “There is plenty of help available, but only for certain classes of work. Generals are scarce, but waitresses, housemaids, ladyhelps, and housekeepers are in over supply.” Most girls made stipulations such as no cooking, no washing, a day off every week, and every evening, until “Punch’s” conception of the domestic as an honoured guest seemed close to realisation.
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19240523.2.125
#OnThisDay #OTD #PapersPast #Servants #DomesticServants #Women #Employment #NewZealand

James Straiter Day March 1st 1822-2024
Midday-1pm
at 8 Hour Day Monument cnr Russel & Victoria Streets
(Opposite Victorian Trades Hall Lygon St Carlton.)

James Straiter, a Government servant to HANNIBAL McARTHUR, Esq. was charged with “exciting his master's servants to combine, for the purpose of obliging him to raise their wages and increase their rations.”
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/2180845

“Free Labour “ - convicts and ticket of leave men and women.

#JamesStraiter #Masters and #Servants Act 1828

_The Evening Post_, 28 Jan 1924:
WOMEN IN PRINT.
The Bishop of Rochester’s wife, Mrs Harmer, has a woman in her household whom she says is “the most wonderful woman in Rochester.” She is the old family nurse who has been the faithful servant of the Harmer family for 75 years, and will soon reach her 90th birthday. In the Old Country these things happen, maids, nurses especially, remain generations in the same family. Out here it would be regarded as marvellous, seventy-live days or even seven not being an un[u]sual period to remain in one family these days.
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19240128.2.105
#OnThisDay #OTD #PapersPast #DomesticService #Servants

someone who should definitely have the authority to know, told me today that my place in Los Angeles, that I have lived in for a very long time and that was built in 1929 or thereabouts, was one of the apartments built for the servants of movie stars…. this is terribly funny to me. #losangeles #moviestars #servants #construction #history #ironic #1929