Queen Of Mean Does Real Work and Finds It Hard

I'll admit to deriving a certain amount of pleasure from Jan Wong's late, venomous Globe and Mail column about lunching with celebrities. In my view anyone who consented to break bread with Wong was asking for evisceration.
Wong recently wrote a "Maid Like Me" series where she plays at being a cleaner for a month. She reveals the plight of mostly immigrant women who are toiling for minimum wage in Toronto. She also exposes herself as a lazy, self-indulgent woman who has never learned to pick up after herself. She brags about not having cleaned a toilet in 20 years. She is proud of involving other people in her dirt disposal. Jan and her husband work and they have two children. They are undoubtedly busy but, having full use of their limbs (to the best of my knowledge), would be able to clean up after themselves if they wanted to. Anyhow, Jan's now learned that other people work hard, too, and they have to go home and clean up after themselves after cleaning up for others all day. Now she can return to her pampered existence, feeling like a good person and a good investigative reporter because she's revealed the injustices faced by minimum wage workers. The fact is that there are and always have been people who are forced to eat a steady diet of disrespect in order to feed their families. This is wrong. Most of us don't need a patronizing Jan Wong to tell us this.