Feeding staff

[Will 1594]

Who still feeds staff
And more so if working late in harvest , and not stodgy old fish chips or take away , shite
I mean fed proper cooked food like meat and veg or home made pie mash veg etc , and some pudding,
If after 7 pm get supper brought ,

 

[Derrick Hughes]

They have a Kichen to use and cook their own

 

[had e nuff]

I know some lads who clip sheep over the summer and they were saying they never get offered as much as a cup of tea at most places. Never been fed anywhere this year.

 

[Tarw Coch]

Silage gang allways get fed here, usually lunch in the house but has been fish and chips outside last couple of years due to covid.

One regular part time employee, sits at the kitchen table as part of the family whenever here.

Also have someone who helps out occasionally who I also help out occasionally, again fed as part of the family...................,.last time I went to help him out, rolled up just in time for dinner, talk about bloody cheeky

 

[daveydiesel1]

I do the odd day for a contractor friend and must say its appreciated when ye get fed, but i really like it when they get it outa the chippy as i love that kinda grub

 

[deleted user 436632456]

My granny god rest her used to feed breakfast, lunch & dinner to 14/15 everyday between us, employees and elderly famer neighbours. How she managed to do it we will never know.

If you asked my wife to take up that role the guys would have 2 hopes and one of them is called bob .

Some of the best craic was around the dinner table and I do miss that but between picky eaters and them not understanding and appreciating the time and costs.. we stopped feeding people a few years ago.

 

[Y Fan Wen]

I know some lads who clip sheep over the summer and they were saying they never get offered as much as a cup of tea at most places. Never been fed anywhere this year.

When our local shearing gang expanded into England, they were very disappointed with the fare on offer, none.
Must be a Welsh thing. Always organise dinner. As soon as they arrive I ask what time they want their break and go and tell Mrs Y the timetable.
This year and last it has been a picnic in the yard rather than a sit down meal 'cos of the virus and not going in strange houses.
In '19 I had some cans and bottles left over from a party and offered them round and most of them disappeared.
I thought no more about it last year but I got a couple of comments so made sure there was a good supply this year and will in the future as well.
I want my gang to look forward to coming for goodness sake!

 

[Drillman]

We no longer feed harvest staff. That’s cos wifey is on corn cart and we haven’t found an oven that will fit in her cab yet!

 

[Estate fencing.]

I might get offered 2 cups of coffee and one beer a year when shearing and never any food.
When dad was a shepherd he made sure mum had a day off to keep the shearers fed and watered all day.
I took 4 loads of sheep into market of someone last week (started at 3am), on the last load he appeared round the corner with a coffee and bacon roll, the barsteward never offered me a thing.
People don't give a sh!t about anyone around here anymore.

 

[upnortheast]

Always feed the silage team, though they have declined the invitation during covid, pity miss the craic.
7 for dinner today, some help in getting ready for the Ayrshire visit on Thursday, when we will be feeding 70

 

[kfpben]

All staff get fed 3 meals a day during lambing.
Work experience students fed at any time of year as they often stay in the house for the fortnight.
My shearer gets fed.
My regular part time lad brings his own lunch but it often gets topped up with a slice of cake etc. He gets dinner if working late, say after 8pm.
My wife is a star!

 

[Poorbuthappy]

Shearers always get fed here.
Anyone working here gets invited in and offered a cuppa, but most bring their own sarnies. Wouldn't let anyone go hungry if they didn't have anything.

 

[cambsfarmer]

I might get offered 2 cups of coffee and one beer a year when shearing and never any food.
When dad was a shepherd he made sure mum had a day off to keep the shearers fed and watered all day.
I took 4 loads of sheep into market of someone last week (started at 3am), on the last load he appeared round the corner with a coffee and bacon roll, the barsteward never offered me a thing.
People don't give a sh!t about anyone around here anymore.

 

[Wellytrack]

I take a box almost always. Some good houses cook well locally and a meal there is always welcome.

Another I used to be in would leave the pan of spuds down on the floor to the psychotic Collie after I took two from it. I just wasn’t sure if I was getting to the pan first all days

 

[Cowmansam]

Used to go help a guy milk then trim feet after his mum would be out with 2 brews and 2 slices of cake during milking then us in for a cooked breakfast another slice off cake around 1130 and a brew then cooked lunch at 230 then start to milk around 4 cake and brews come out at 5 I was putting on a few pounds a day working there

 

[Wellytrack]

Used to go help a guy milk then trim feet after his mum would be out with 2 brews and 2 slices of cake during milking then us in for a cooked breakfast another slice off cake around 1130 and a brew then cooked lunch at 230 then start to milk around 4 cake and brews come out at 5 I was putting on a few pounds a day working there

How much did you pay them to work there?

 

[Robt]

Who still feeds staff
And more so if working late in harvest , and not stodgy old fish chips or take away , shite
I mean fed proper cooked food like meat and veg or home made pie mash veg etc , and some pudding,
If after 7 pm get supper brought ,

None of that foreign muck like pasta or pizza? just proper grub like meat and two veg…. Have you considered Quorn?

 

[ISCO]

When I sheared sheep and worked for a contractor I much preferred taking my own food being a fussy eater.
It always took far longer stopping and going to the house for a meal.
A few beers afterwards were always welcome though.

 

[Mc115reed]

Bosses wife always fetches food out in back of her truck too where ever we are silaging or working late if after 8pm.. it was a bit strange when I moved too Staffordshire from Cumbria… up there we used too get fed by farmers everywhere we went, even slurry pumping we’d be pump off, overalls off and in the house for proper meal.. one place used too do breakfast at 8, cake at 10:30, lunch at 12, cake again at 3 then supper at 7 was bloody hard work get out done

 

[David.]

I can't abide tightness.
I'd make sure the man paid for the bacon roll and coffee you didn't get, one way or another.
Anyone comes here gets offered tea/coffee routinely; delivery/collection lorry driver, rep, whoever; and if we eat, they get offered.
I'm slightly surprised shearers want a sit down dinner midday, that would bugger me up.
I was present one day when a farmer handed some cold beers to the shearing gang, and then walked straight past his own man, who had been sweating his balls off, filling the race all day