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More money isn't always the answer - so how do you attract staff to work for you
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<blockquote data-quote="Al R" data-source="post: 7881308" data-attributes="member: 7565"><p>Having worked for some really good people and really bad to I’d echo a lot of the above. Not having any time off at all is tough, I did it with small kids and on a pittance (I’d eat only my evening meal so the kids were fed and clothed) hours were beyond with no break from 70+ hours a week for years on end.</p><p></p><p>Now I’m my own boss and the girl working for me has a minimum of 2 days off a week, often more if she wants them. This week coming we’re doing 2 days as she has hunting, Christmas parties and her other businesses to organise, she also doesn’t mind a few quiet weeks at the moment before we’re busy lambing and moving electric fences every day come January. Even at lambing I try and work it so every member of staff doesn’t work more than 6 days in a row. This year lambing I was slightly over staffed as the weather was good, if the weather was poor we would have needed more possibly <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="🤷🏻♂️" title="Man shrugging: light skin tone :man_shrugging_tone1:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/6.5/png/unicode/64/1f937-1f3fb-2642.png" data-shortname=":man_shrugging_tone1:" /> I kept one of the lambing staff on for a month after the rest while we still had a few hundred left, the worker asked why did I keep that person on? Simple, we weren’t rushing around and for the sake of a few thousand £ we finished lambing fresh and not tired as we still had sheep work to carry on with for the rest of the year. The girl with me was shocked how I’d rather employ more people than struggle on and push for more hours from the ones I had already, she was saying the last few years where she has been lambing (various places) they’d be worked into the ground like dogs with way to much to do as the farmer was to tight to get more help. The year before me she broke her leg on an RSJ as she forgot to lift it in on the quad as she was so tired..</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Al R, post: 7881308, member: 7565"] Having worked for some really good people and really bad to I’d echo a lot of the above. Not having any time off at all is tough, I did it with small kids and on a pittance (I’d eat only my evening meal so the kids were fed and clothed) hours were beyond with no break from 70+ hours a week for years on end. Now I’m my own boss and the girl working for me has a minimum of 2 days off a week, often more if she wants them. This week coming we’re doing 2 days as she has hunting, Christmas parties and her other businesses to organise, she also doesn’t mind a few quiet weeks at the moment before we’re busy lambing and moving electric fences every day come January. Even at lambing I try and work it so every member of staff doesn’t work more than 6 days in a row. This year lambing I was slightly over staffed as the weather was good, if the weather was poor we would have needed more possibly 🤷🏻♂️ I kept one of the lambing staff on for a month after the rest while we still had a few hundred left, the worker asked why did I keep that person on? Simple, we weren’t rushing around and for the sake of a few thousand £ we finished lambing fresh and not tired as we still had sheep work to carry on with for the rest of the year. The girl with me was shocked how I’d rather employ more people than struggle on and push for more hours from the ones I had already, she was saying the last few years where she has been lambing (various places) they’d be worked into the ground like dogs with way to much to do as the farmer was to tight to get more help. The year before me she broke her leg on an RSJ as she forgot to lift it in on the quad as she was so tired.. [/QUOTE]
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