Finland:
Using "table" is a figure of speech. it means eating with the family and not in a kitchen or balcony.

Reference:

Because there are several homes that are run very professionally. It depends on one's mindset. Maid doesn't have to be a dirty word. It is a profession. And both the employer and employee know their rights and obligations. A lot of people source their maids from the same agency they get their drivers and security men. Some maids get their wages at the office. There is a bigger, hassle free world out there.

IYA NGBALI: Gbenu soun ode,if you don't understand something you ask questions,no wonder you wrote your jamb exams 5 times before you were finally smuggled in to study your language abi na dialect?

queensmith:

pdude has answered the question. nigerian families don't tend to eat together. everyone just throws themselves down in any position to eat. including the housemaid or whoever has cooked the food, if he/she isn't busy cleaning up in the kitchen.

Reference: I know where this kind of topic is going. Housemaid as distinct from househelp. The former is a professional working in your house. The answer to this is simple. Will you share the same table with the Board of Directors in your company's canteen (if they ever show up there). Most certainly, no. There will always be class differences.

If it is the informal, from the village kind of arrangement called househelp where there is no job description, no prospects and a great deal of flexibility then you are in a relationship with a great deal of liability that may warrant such human considerations.

jidegirl12:

Abeg don't start housemaid war again, I'm out

GenBuhari: The concept of maids is little more than modern day slavery in most cases.

I believe this was what we learnt from our colonial masters and have continued it since.

I think we can start by treating "maids" with more respect and allowing them more dignity.

honeychild: In my opinion a housemaid should not eat with the family. I had a maid once, we made her feel free, treated her like my younger sister. She ate with us at table and everything . Eventually she grew 'wings' started becoming saucy and even graduated to reporting me to my hubby when I scold her etc. I had to get rid of her sharp sharp. If I had not given her the freedom of sitting at d same table with my husband I don't think she would have had d audacity to report me. My new maid eats in the kitchen though she eats exactly what we eat. No unnecessary fraternizing abeg .

Archmed:
Are you a maid?

ItsModella: See question o. I think the reason is pretty obvious. They are not part of the family. It might not be the answer you want to hear but that's the reality of things.

Harpesin:

So if you visit me and its time to eat, i shd send you to kitchen to go and eat your food cos u too are not part of d fam....Gbam#

ItsModella:
Show me where I said that they eat in the kitchen. Next time, make it a point to read subsequent posts before going off on a rant.

toboy: answer the question that you was asked! He wanted to tell you to reason before you post shallowly. Your uneccessary english wont save you! You are really the one ranting here!