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<blockquote data-quote="Woolgatherer" data-source="post: 1082676" data-attributes="member: 3038"><p>How many potato growers here think someone will stand and grade in a dark shed, cold, for 9 hours plus a day for less than £6.50? You have to be able to live on the pay you get or the job is not going to get done. I realise you could just sell it ungraded, what will your buyers pay you then? The supermarkets won't want rots on their shelves, the customers will soon avoid the veg shelves if there's an almighty stink. Pasta anyone? What I'm trying to say is that these jobs may be unskilled but they are still needing done. I wouldn't expect to be paid a higher wage to grade potatoes but some people seem to view the people who do them as being next to worthless. As I said in a previous post, these jobs are essential, someone still has to wipe your grannies bottom in the nursing home when she's not able to do it anymore. Is that person beneath your contempt because they're minimum wage? Or are you glad that they're there to do it, and bath her, feed her etc so you don't have to do it?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Woolgatherer, post: 1082676, member: 3038"] How many potato growers here think someone will stand and grade in a dark shed, cold, for 9 hours plus a day for less than £6.50? You have to be able to live on the pay you get or the job is not going to get done. I realise you could just sell it ungraded, what will your buyers pay you then? The supermarkets won't want rots on their shelves, the customers will soon avoid the veg shelves if there's an almighty stink. Pasta anyone? What I'm trying to say is that these jobs may be unskilled but they are still needing done. I wouldn't expect to be paid a higher wage to grade potatoes but some people seem to view the people who do them as being next to worthless. As I said in a previous post, these jobs are essential, someone still has to wipe your grannies bottom in the nursing home when she's not able to do it anymore. Is that person beneath your contempt because they're minimum wage? Or are you glad that they're there to do it, and bath her, feed her etc so you don't have to do it? [/QUOTE]
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