Nice little peek at the Butler life…Enjoy. Exclusive: the Duke of Marlborough’s butler tells Eleanor Doughty why being a butler isn’t quite like Downton Abbey – although it is, just a little bit… But although waiting on the aristocracy is a niche trade requiring a cocktail of social and practical skills from tapestry management to…
Here’s a quick peak at the formal, deep cleaning of an intricate home. Click through for a little video of brush/vacuum technique… Brodsworth Hall, one of the most spectacular houses in South Yorkshire, is using the quieter time to undertake some much-needed conservation work. Each room will be swathed under ghostly white covers as staff…
Background services are not all equal. Know what is checked and have a representative who can explain the different elements and search process. This is NOT an area to cut corners and take the cheapest provider! Before offering a prospective employee a job, many companies will first perform a background check. As with credit reports,…
Here are a few good thoughts on personality, especially relevant in the interview phase and also relative to providing genuine service to others. Self-esteem and self-confidence seem like pretty much the same thing, but they’re not. For example, maybe you can easily get in front of a crowd, give a speech, and command a room,…
Here’s a nice article from The Atlantic on the history of domestic help. Enjoy. For centuries, a woman’s social status was clear-cut: either she had a maid or she was one. Servants—often live-ins—who did the bulk of the cooking, laundry, and childcare were an indispensable part of life for virtually everyone who wasn’t a domestic…
Some amazing history in our industry. Read or listen from the link in the full story. Atlanta resident, civil rights organizer and household domestic worker Dorothy Bolden died in 2005 at the age of 80, but the work she did during her lifetime lives on. “Dorothy Bolden was absolutely fearless when it came to speaking…
Just read this. Be happy about your working conditions. Expose injustice if you see it. An estimated, 8.5 million domestic workers are paid a pittance to mollycoddle Pakistan’s elite and upper middle class. Services include, but are not limited to cooking, cleaning, guarding and driving. Working conditions, responsibilities, pay scale, vacations, allowances, health benefits and…
Good job hunting basics are important. Here are a few ideas to help in your search. If you want to find a job you love, you have to have high standards. You have to know what you want and what you’re worth, and you can’t be willing to settle for anything lower than that.But that…
It is good to see that employees can find legal protection from vindictive employers. Whether or not true, the public slandering of ex-staff won’t be tolerated. LOS ANGELES (CNS/FOX 11) – A Los Angeles judge overseeing what may be the first Instagram-related libel case ordered rapper The Game to pay more than $200,000 to a…
One of the iconic brands of home making has just been sold… At its peak, Martha Stewart’s media empire, built around her carefully curated and fussily decorated lifestyle brand, was worth well over $1 billion. Yet on Monday, the company agreed to sell itself for a fraction of that. Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia said that it…