Airports re open

[TheTallGuy]

If they need training, train them - it’s not rocket science.

I beg to differ when it comes to certain varieties of lettuce!

 

[simon-0116]

Only plane round us is police plane flying around been about 4 days this week.

 

[Thick Farmer]

I beg to differ when it comes to certain varieties of lettuce!

I suppose it’s quite difficult to train a cabbage to pick a lettuce! ?

 

[anzani]

Just went up from Exeter again a few seconds ago.

That may have been RAF ze701, aircraft of the Queens flight, returning to London

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[fieldfarmer]

What aircraft reg was the aicraft you mention so I can look it up on Flightradar 24 history? Many thanks.

I think it's the one over Oxford at the moment.

 

[Lincs Lass]

Only plane round us is police plane flying around been about 4 days this week.

Thats just over manor and norfolk park ,,its the safest place to be up there

 

[ollie989898]

Most places I have been in Europe offer cheap services

You want a cheap outward flight or summat?

 

[kiwi pom]

Obviously, you have never employed British people to do manual labour.
putting ten plants in a bunch is not rocket science
being told by young lady to f*** myself when I repeatedly point out she has put 8 or less in a bunch. Thats not rocket science.
being offered sexual services is not rocket science.
employing eastern European polite attentive, willing , keen, turning up early, not stopping till after the clock has turned, that’s rocket science

Good point but that's mostly because unemployment was low so you were probably picking from the bottom of the barrel. Thousands of good workers are now doing nothing. They just need pointing in the right direction and training. Unfortunately some businesses have got so used to using cheap, desperate people to work for them they are unwilling to actually put any effort in to recruit and train. Easier to ring an agency and order a plane load.

 

[kiwi pom]

Time to start making friends with people who are bored shitless doing online workouts every day then!

That would require effort though. Cheap, seasonal labour has become just another input people order over the phone from an agency.

 

[Pennine Ploughing]

So there is uproar on here when polish beef came in to this country, yet it's a good thing to have cheap polish workers to pick fruit,
Trouble here is people are far to well off, that's why they won't work

 

[jondear]

I got buzzed with a chenock.big time this afternoon as flew over at sub 100 foot. Been alot of military planes this week

Yes that big transport plane has been doing circuits!

 

[Spud]

Good point but that's mostly because unemployment was low so you were probably picking from the bottom of the barrel. Thousands of good workers are now doing nothing. They just need pointing in the right direction and training. Unfortunately some businesses have got so used to using cheap, desperate people to work for them they are unwilling to actually put any effort in to recruit and train. Easier to ring an agency and order a plane load.

Don't be derogatory if you've not done what you preach yourself.

Recruitment of seasonal staff, PAYE, pensions etc is a royal pita for temporary workers - that's basically what you pay the agency for - and if (and by average there will be some) a picker is disruptive, unreliable or just no good, then you ask the agency not to send them again. Some of our pickers are Brits, some Eastern European. Mostly through agency, a couple of locals direct. Some pick it up quickly and are very good, some just want paying and don't give a hoot.

 

[Yale]

If they need training, train them - it’s not rocket science.

But british workers would need three hands,two for the job and one to hold their phone!

 

[Pennine Ploughing]

But british workers would need three hands,two for the job and one to hold their phone!

And this is coming for someone that posts regularly through the day, now there is a thought

 

[7610 super q]

FFS, I had hoped the grounded planes would be cut up for scrap. Surely the era of pointless air travel is over, between emissions and spreading viruses ?

 

[Chae1]

Anyone flying shearers in from NZ or Aus?

No. There just shipping the lamb in instead

 

[DRC]

More trails over us yesterday . Flight tracker said they were flights from Chicago to London and Toronto to London

 

[Yale]

And this is coming for someone that posts regularly through the day, now there is a thought

Two things....I’m the boss and I have three hands.

 

[7610 super q]

Trouble is, it ain't the 1950's anymore. You can't amble about picking one crate of cabbage per hour. You've got to keep up with cutting/packing rigs these days. Having a tractor up your arse ( oohhh matron ) all day isn't for everyone. I wouldn't want to do it. It's a young man's game. And UK youngsters are all bred like Kevin ( Harry Enfield ) thanks to the Blair years.

 

[Pennine Ploughing]

Two things....I’m the boss and I have three hands.

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