In Reply to: JBR 10-15 March 2 girls, 1 newbie. posted by heleng on Thursday, 17. March 2011 at 09:56 Bali Time:
take too much into the stories from spa ladies, they are just stories, and a very popular way to extract extra money. They are not doing it tough. I have a friend who hires 27 spa girls and I love just sitting with them and hearing the new 'story' they have made up, or heard from an older more experienced spa lady who scammed another tourist out of a months wage. One girl got 7 times her wage from stories about her sick baby in November last year, they are all in admiration of her great talent to do this, actually it was double my wage for November so I was pretty impressed. I've given up on trying to understand how they think it is okay to do this, I now just laugh, otherwise I'd walk around trying to protect every generous tourist on this Island from the beautiful smiles that rip you off.
Oh, and 1 million rupiah is not a bad salary, it's all relative to the expenses you have.