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> She was hired in 2019 for a housekeeping role that required her to "work around a family without being seen", according to the complaint.

Is this is a common requirement for a housekeeper to act like a burglar?

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It’s a completely common, and actually expected, thing for maids employed by premium hotels. I don’t see any reason why you couldn’t do it for a household as well.

Interesting. I would suppose however that hotels have facilities (like, many backdoors) that can support such work, but households not necessarily?

Old English manors definitely have passages specifically for the household help. I’m not sure if American mansions are designed with that or not.

Next time I see reels of fancy houses or hotels I will imagine that there are maid-ghosts running away from the camera’s view.

Not sure how common this is but I recall that Larry Ellison Oracle took it a step further and has emitters on his cars and sensors on his home that tell the help to vanish by the time he shows up.

yes and preferred

many places built for this purpose have alternate hidden passages to assist with this

it is still seen as good service when this is done well

some restaurants accomplish this too and it is a night and day difference for wait staff to only appear at the correct time instead of hovering, guessing at an interval that is either too long or too short, obviously staring, or inattentive

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