pine_guy
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- Location
- North Cumbria
Oh and both have option to keep stock on farm, probably my toughest one as one of their daughters pet sheep drives me nuts, and has survived multiple threats from me to sell it 
Non salary staff perks.
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Johnnyboxer
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- Location
- Yorkshire
I remember as a young (pre Ag College) 18 yo worker on a Devon dairy farm
Used to get fed and watered - breakfast, lunch and high tea (deducted at AWB meal rates that was fair enough)
Used to get milk to take home for Mum and farm made clotted cream etc
Weekly trip to Newton Abbot mart to sell dairy calves and we (farmer and his wife) would all take silver service lunch at the town’s upmarket cafe Madge Mellors (like Betty’s in Yorkshire) which was a weekly treat that the farmer paid for me
Learnt a lot and I worked hard for them
Used to get fed and watered - breakfast, lunch and high tea (deducted at AWB meal rates that was fair enough)
Used to get milk to take home for Mum and farm made clotted cream etc
Weekly trip to Newton Abbot mart to sell dairy calves and we (farmer and his wife) would all take silver service lunch at the town’s upmarket cafe Madge Mellors (like Betty’s in Yorkshire) which was a weekly treat that the farmer paid for me
Learnt a lot and I worked hard for them
It sounds like you username sums up your entire persona.
Pieces_of_Eight
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Professional advice is more important than ever now that a workplace pension (of some sort) is compulsory.
Dead Rabbits
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- Location
- 'Merica
Ain’t no offense here. There are problems here as anywhere has some. Consolidation of wealth to fewer is a problem here as it is there. The rural brain and wealth drain is definitely present in my life. But to say everyone sitting at zero here will stay there is wildly inaccurate. Yes some start there and stay there, it’s not a level playing field.
I go out of my way to hire immigrants because they’ve lived in a place without opportunity and have been hungry a time or two. I don’t think I could convince any of them where they came from provided a better life.
Maybe I am too young yet and just haven’t been ground down by life but sure hope I don’t end up with such a dour mindset.
Pieces_of_Eight
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Do you find that gives them a better work ethic?
Dead Rabbits
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- Location
- 'Merica
Hell yeah. Not universally but the immigrant mentality is different to the local one.
Pieces_of_Eight
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Sort of similar to our Eastern Europeans. The ones who are 40+ can remember the suffering of the communist regimes and work hard and reap the rewards. The younger generation seem to be just keen to get to the UK to slide into our comfy benefits culture and want to do as little work as possible and don't mind a very low standard of living in return. It might all change over time now we are not in the EU.
Not an employer and not been an employee for years
But what happened to a fair days pay for a fair days work
No problem with a few perks like a Christmas bonus or your milk or meat etc and certainly being fed when working extra hours and being treated like a decent human being
But what happened to a fair days pay for a fair days work
No problem with a few perks like a Christmas bonus or your milk or meat etc and certainly being fed when working extra hours and being treated like a decent human being
The perks are being a good boss who is approachable and paying the lads on time
Farm worker- “ what should I invest my money in?”
Personal financial advisor- “ gravel bags and rubber matting”
multi power
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- Location
- pembrokeshire
If you think paying on time is a perk you are seriously deluded
I assume you expect your milk to be paid for on time?
Chae1
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- Location
- Aberdeenshire
I find this comment interesting having been the immigrant myself. When in Australia the farmers liked us working for them because I had no family commitments or wasn't wanting away to play sport at local clubs. My sole focus was work.
Same in the US when I went to work for custom cutting company.
Jdunn55
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- Location
- Helston, cornwall
I think youd be surprised in the number of people who don't pay on time (not my experience but from friends I know)
Spudley
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- Location
- Pembrokeshire
Back in the day, I had a (full time, professional) job where I was to be paid monthly by cheque on the first of the month. All my direct debits came out on the 10th. The bosses were very lax about signing the cheques and many months I was ten days late being paid. In the end I told them I wouldn't come in until I got paid. It was extremely stressful and created a lot of bad feeling and was one of the reasons why I left.
- Location
- South Molton
I keep a close eye on tenants payment as a previous one was letting it slip by a couple of days each month. 12 months and you have lost a months income!
Wages go out here on standing order. Overtime as a separate payment
Explain the delusion?
kiwi pom
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- Location
- canterbury NZ
Yep spot on.
I actually had a manager once that came to the conclusion it was better to have a new set of "imports" each year than have a few stay on. He said once people had been in country a while they started getting friends or a partner and wanted time off or an early finish to go somewhere and have a life outside of work, which instantly made them a pain in the arse.
I think he was talking about me
- Location
- 200 miles N,NW of New York
Yeah it's such a crime having a life outside workYep spot on.
I actually had a manager once that came to the conclusion it was better to have a new set of "imports" each year than have a few stay on. He said once people had been in country a while they started getting friends or a partner and wanted time off or an early finish to go somewhere and have a life outside of work, which instantly made them a pain in the arse.
I think he was talking about me
Thought the attraction of NZ to us foreigners was the good work/life balanceYep spot on.
I actually had a manager once that came to the conclusion it was better to have a new set of "imports" each year than have a few stay on. He said once people had been in country a while they started getting friends or a partner and wanted time off or an early finish to go somewhere and have a life outside of work, which instantly made them a pain in the arse.
I think he was talking about me
Maybe we've been lead astray