Chicken shortage

[4course]

We grow 20,000kg of mushrooms each week and it is getting very difficult to find people to pick them. It’s a bit like dairy farming, they double in size every day and you can’t switch it off on Sundays, bank holidays and Christmas. It takes 6 weeks of planning to organise a day off for everyone on Christmas Day! We pay living wage + a good bonus for picking faster. We are competing with huge amounts of imported Polish mushrooms being picked at £4/hr. Local chicken factories have increased wages to £10.50/hr to keep/encourage staff, (mostly Eastern European with settled status).

and they will soon be of to get their hgv cos according my driver pal currently over £20/hour for 35 hours is easily attainable and thats up here, and so will everyone else employed on a farm

 

[Clive]

so on the news tonight - “unemployment in under 25’s is high” followed by a load of 18-25 yr olds saying despite applying for loads of job they just can’t get work

square that circle ! - most looked capable of catching a chicken to me !

 

[glasshouse]

so on the news tonight - “unemployment in under 25’s is high” followed by a load of 18-25 yr olds saying despite applying for loads of job they just can’t get work

square that circle ! - most looked capable of catching a chicken to me !

But Blair told them they would never have to get their hands dirty
University for all
Let the poles in to do the dirty work

 

[thorpe]

threres no shortage of cickens but some of em may be a bit to big . like some of our bullocks!

 

[had e nuff]

Whats the betting that the owners family won't be volunteering to catch their own chickens.

 

[Estate fencing.]

Whats the betting that the owners family won't be volunteering to catch their own chickens.

I was think just the same, bet most owners or there kids aren't catching birds through the night.

 

[Estate fencing.]

Iv got an older brother who would let his family starve not to do job that he feels is below him.
His got a well paid job, but has a clearer, gardener, kids go to nursery, a dog walker and the cars get valeted every weekend.
He is much worse off than me because won't do anything that is menial but wants the perfect life.

 

[Exfarmer]

Whats the betting that the owners family won't be volunteering to catch their own chickens.

That is a gross slander on some very hard working farmers! I certainly know one farm where all the family help out

 

[Exfarmer]

Iv got an older brother who would let his family starve not to do job that he feels is below him.
His got a well paid job, but has a clearer, gardener, kids go to nursery, a dog walker and the cars get valeted every weekend.
He is much worse off than me because won't do anything that is menial but wants the perfect life.

Does he pay to go to the gym too? There are tens of thousands of muppetts out there and wonder why they have no money either

 

[Pieces_of_Eight]

Does he pay to go to the gym too?

I'd rather get paid £10 an hour to catch chickens than pay £10 an hour to go to the gym.

 

[Estate fencing.]

I'd rather get paid £10 an hour to catch chickens than pay £10 an hour to go to the gym.

So would it. My other brother is proper skint but spend 3 nights in the gym and 2 days playing cricket a week. He is really fit and could easy shear with me but not interested. He could earn £40/hour all summer but would rather be in the gym.

 

[john1968]

That would be a smart fridge..

It's okay having a fridge but it what in it that counts supermarket own brand rubbish or some thing you would want to drink

 

[glasshouse]

So would it. My other brother is proper skint but spend 3 nights in the gym and 2 days playing cricket a week. He is really fit and could easy shear with me but not interested. He could earn £40/hour all summer but would rather be in the gym.

Sums the job up
Everyone more concerned with style than substance

 

[chickens and wheat]

Seems I have neither style or substance

 

[glasshouse]

Seems I have neither style or substance

The ability to work is substance

 

[Clive]

But Blair told them they would never have to get their hands dirty
University for all
Let the poles in to do the dirty work

lot of unemployed astronauts these days

 

[Clive]

Whats the betting that the owners family won't be volunteering to catch their own chickens.

i have a belief / rule that no manager / boss or business owner should ever ask any employe to do a job they would not be prepared do themselves

 

[jg123]

The reason I was told is that they can’t get catchers to load the chickens off farm. Huge backlog of chickens on farms.

Big chicken farm next door, lack of staff has resulted in chickens growing too big and out of spec for spupermarkets and now lorry loads of perfect (but too large) chickens going for dog food.

 

[Exfarmer]

i have a belief / rule that no manager / boss or business owner should ever ask any employe to do a job they would not do themselves

If only all bosses thought the same way!

 

[Ffermer Bach]

If only all bosses thought the same way!

A big problem, is people at the top often feel they know more than the people at the bottom, so are unwilling to listen to or ask advice from people on the coal face. I used to work for a large training organisation, who have now lost all their training contracts, but for years created systems that that were bad for the "coal face workers" and not good for the employers we dealt with either. Many years ago, I had someone digging out my ditches, and he watched me working doing my admin, and he said "if I organised my company the way your firm is organised I would go out of business!", he was right, it just took another 22 years. I am not saying all workers know everything, and the upper echelons know nothing, but a bit of humility and inquisitiveness from the top could improve things greatly. Best car factory in the world Nissan in Sunderland, worst car firm in recent history British Leyland. Same British workers, different managers and management culture!