NRI man says wife in India turned into operations manager handling cook, maid and deep-cleaning service: Domestic help doesn't mean zero effort

NRI man said domestic help in India does not always make life easier; managing them takes a mental toll. (AI photo) An NRI man said he got a reality check about life in India when his wife spent about four months in the country before their final plan to relocate to India. While everyone claims life is easier in India because of the easy availablity of domestic help, the Redditor said it does not always make life smooth. Their random hours, unannounced leaves take a huge mental toll, the man said adding that his wife in India had to take up the domestic operations manager role, handling maids."My wife spent about four months back in India recently staying at our place, and while everyone always hype up how easy life gets with affordable domestic help, her actual experience was completely different," the Reddit post said."Having lived abroad for years where everything is DIY and automated, she was used to fixed routines. In India, within two weeks she realized she had essentially taken on a full-time operations manager role. Coordinating between a cook, a maid, and a deep-cleaning service coming in at completely random hours, handling sudden unannounced leaves, and dealing with cons...