SINGAPORE: After working with her employer for just six days, a maid wanted to know if she could be transferred elsewhere.

In an anonymous post to a support Facebook group for helpers, a foreign domestic worker wrote that this was her first time in Singapore. She added that she had worked with her very first employer for just six days. Without explaining her reasons, the maid then asked if it was possible for her to find another employer and be transferred out.

Other employers and helpers who commented on her post reacted with shock. Some asked her to go home, others said that it would be difficult to find another employer but not impossible if she had valid reasons for wanting a transfer.

Here’s what they said: