The job offer: Management staff in a respectable restaurant, with a guaranteed minimum salary of $3,000 a month.
The requirement? "You must be willing to work hard and be nice to customers."
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It sounded like a job she thought she could do well, says a Filipina who wants to be known only as Ms Ruth in a telephone interview with The New Paper on Sunday.
She agreed to share her story because she wanted to highlight that "not every woman who comes to Singapore knows what she is in for".
Ms Ruth, who is in her late 20s, says: "It may sound stupid but the truth is, sometimes, we are so caught in poverty in our hometown that when there's a golden opportunity like this, we jump at it.
"It's only when we are here that we realise that there is a darker side to our job."
That was the case for her in 2012.
A fellow Filipina who had returned home told her that she was making good money in Singapore. She also told her about the job at the restaurant.
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The requirement? "You must be willing to work hard and be nice to customers."
RELATED STORIES
You have to be VIP for extra services
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Pimp's wife jailed for procuring women
Orchard Towers pub a front for vice
It sounded like a job she thought she could do well, says a Filipina who wants to be known only as Ms Ruth in a telephone interview with The New Paper on Sunday.
She agreed to share her story because she wanted to highlight that "not every woman who comes to Singapore knows what she is in for".
Ms Ruth, who is in her late 20s, says: "It may sound stupid but the truth is, sometimes, we are so caught in poverty in our hometown that when there's a golden opportunity like this, we jump at it.
"It's only when we are here that we realise that there is a darker side to our job."
That was the case for her in 2012.
A fellow Filipina who had returned home told her that she was making good money in Singapore. She also told her about the job at the restaurant.
- See more at: http://news.asiaone.com/news/singapore/trapped-‘innocent’-job-offer#sthash.1XIYAVjp.dpuf
