Why on earth were the Police involved ?
I failed to retain staff today
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Why on earth were the Police involved ?
glasshouse
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They said i had frightened them.
That was the whole idea.
That was the whole idea.
chap use to I know sent his daughter and the farm worker out pulling wild oats and when he went down to see how they were getting on they were sowing them
glasshouse
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Definite management faux pas there.
glasshouse
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Did he have his shotgun?
Sounds like it got a bit out of hand. If it was me I would have bollocked them and made them clean my car or something as punishment. Then when I got inside i would have had a good chuckle. God loves a trier
glasshouse
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Just as well. An arseful of lead would cool the ardour somewhat.
And some think the workers are the daft ones
may have been on a welfare breakAnd some think the workers are the daft ones
@student101 would approve
as long as they didn't book the time of flatten to much corn I can't see the problem
Sheeponfire
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"better for British farm workers"
Am pretty sure we wont find many of them wanting to pick 250kgs of soft fruit in a 10 hour day.....
esp if they wont drive a 3 yr old tractor!
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Sometimes it is easier just to grab a brush or shovel and do it yourself. It helps I suppose that I find it strangely therapeutic sweeping a shed or tidying up a bit and a lot less frustrating than watching someone follow a brush around, headphones in, in a total daze. Brush lever leaving the floor.
There are many good reasons why Brits wont/dont work at the bottom end of agriculture ie fruit / veg picking and they are all about pay and conditions.
In reality migrant workers get less than minimum wage , the terms they are usually employed under include living in caravans with 3 or 4 strangers , rent is deducted from their pay as are costs for electricity and gas at an inflated rate , on top of this they are employed on piece work , if you cant pick the required minimum quantity you are down the road ,on top of this overtime is always required , no weekends off , sick pay is only statutory , if you have "too much time on the sick" you are fired.
No children or family allowed on the farm or caravan sites and you wont be able to afford to run a car on these wages , the farms have their own buses and run staff to and from the field , if they want to go shopping in town they need to chip in for a taxi , quite often taxi`s are not allowed on the farm so they have to lug shopping for half a mile .
And dont forget its all zero hour contracts . f.....g great eh?
How many here would work on someone elses farm under these conditions ?
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Have you actual experience of this, or just an imagination like @student101 ??
First hand experience for a year , how about you?
I employ 4 casual potato graders for about 6 months of the year, on and off. Mostly British.
Where I worked they employed over 1000 migrants during the season , yes over 1000 .
I wasn't having a pop, nor was any offence, your post just came across as a bit troll-like.
That's a different scale to us! What did you do? How were 1000 (presumably mostly unskilled) workers managed?
I once worked down west , the crops were spuds , daffs and bulbs, workers were unskilled but so was the work , "managers" shown them what was required and they cracked on , hard working people , for them the attraction was they earned 3-4 times as much as back home so they were prepared to live and work under crappy conditions.
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