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Ten reasons your househelp left, and none are her fault

Ten reasons your househelp left, and none are her fault
Ten reasons your househelp left, and none are her fault (Photo: iStock)

Ever wondered why your next-door neighbour has hired and fired so many househelps within a year? The problem might not lie with the house girls at all. The employer may be impossible to live with. From paranoid spies to miserly tyrants, here are 10 types of Kenyan bosses that house managers, quietly and with great resentment, truly despise.

1. The spy

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