Cooks, guards, cleaners, and other household workers often fall into non-formal or semi-formal categories of labor, governed less by written contracts than by personal authority. In Chad, this invisibility has become more pronounced with the reinforcement of localization requirements under national labor and sectoral regulations, including the Labor Code (Code du Travail du Tchad) and localization provisions linked to the petroleum and extractive industries. While these measures increase reliance on national labor, they leave domestic and household employment largely outside effective oversight. When work takes place inside private homes, professional boundaries are easily dissolved by everyday intimacy. In tones of both Chinese employers and Chadian workers, these conflicts are often explained through personality, culture, or intent.