Letters to the Editor
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I have problems with the letterwriter's story
Having grown up with numerous servants, and done a lot of traveling in the third world, I find part of the lw story unbeliveable.
The servants would not steal the money. They know if the emplolyer believe any one of them took the money, that all three will be fired. They also know that their employer will quickly find out from the community if any of their servants, or the servant's family, came into a large sum or money.
They have a good job. They get first dibs on the discards of of their employers. In the third world, a lot of first world employers also help out the house servants by arranging for medical care, paying school fees for childern, etc.
If it were my daughter, I would have reimbursed the hosts, then had a talking to my daughter. She, not her boyfriend, would have had the option of (1) reimbursing me for the $1,000 or (2) suffering the consquences. I don't know what the consequences would be, but at a minimum, the next time she and her boyfriend went traveling, they better have some other place to stay. They definitely will not be the house guests of my friends.
SJ