Kate and I both hate doing housework, so a year or so ago, we broke down and hired a cleaning service. Every other week, they send a crew in to vacuum and dust and clean the bathroom and kitchen, so we don’t have to. IT’s not a terribly expensive service, and we’re happier as a result.<\/p>\n
I occasionally have pangs of liberal guilt about this, because it’s such a bourgeois thing to do. I had this mental image (aided by the brochure they sent when we signed up) of the cleaners as middle-aged Hispanic women, probably getting paid about six bucks an hour. Which would put me in the position of aiding and abetting the exploitation of the underclass, all because I’m too lazy to vacuum my own damn house.<\/p>\n
Of course, I’ve never actually seen these people, as they generally come when we’re at work. Until today, when I was running a little late, and the cleaners showed up just as I was about to leave: two white guys in their 20’s. They looked like college students working a summer job.<\/p>\n
I’m not sure where this fits in the context of International Blog Against Racism Week<\/a>, but I thought it was pretty funny.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Kate and I both hate doing housework, so a year or so ago, we broke down and hired a cleaning service. Every other week, they send a crew in to vacuum and dust and clean the bathroom and kitchen, so we don’t have to. IT’s not a terribly expensive service, and we’re happier as a… Continue reading Race and Cleaning<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}