Chae1
Member
- Location
- Aberdeenshire
No. I'm not that nice a boss. I'm not going to pick it up.
Non salary staff perks.
- Thread starter DairyGrazing
- Start date
Big_D
Member
- Location
- S W Scotland
Better make one of your staff's perks a dental plan
Dead Rabbits
Member
- Location
- 'Merica
It would be very rare to find an employer here with similar pay and job requirements to agriculture that provide those benefits. I have siblings, friends and family members that work outside of agriculture each with at least one and some two college degrees who have few if any of those perks. These would be “white collar” jobs for the most part. They would be on similar money and still have to commute and pay housing with the addition of student loan debt.
I don’t buy the argument that agriculture offers nothing and expects the world of its employees. I consider myself fortunate to not have their jobs. You can still start at zero and get somewhere in farming if ya want. It’s not life at the bottom as some would portray it.
- Location
- M6 Hard shoulder
A please and thank you go along way. We don't employ full time staff just casual help when required. We always provide refreshment/meals when required, usually a chippy tea or trip to the golden arches when silaging.
Always take the team, staff,rms tech, robot engineers for a meal out towards Christmas.
Dead Rabbits
Member
- Location
- 'Merica
And fish and chips plus a beer for a visiting dairy farmer. Your generosity (and the wife’s) was much appreciated.
All I can say is well done to the OP for this even being on your radar. An occasional 'thank you' is a good start and anything else will be a bonus to your staff but ultimately for your business.
betweenthelines
Member
- Location
- southwest
All the perks I mentioned are from food processing businesses, and are applicable to warehouse, processing, packing and drivers as well as office based workers, but most are available from most large employers.
TBH, I think the lack of perks that your friends and relatives have says more about the way the US economy is run than anything else. Everyone in the UK has free healthcare at the point of use, do most employers provide medical insurance, or does that come out of "take home" pay?
EU has done great work in the past to improve workers terms and conditions, and parity in this was a big problem when negotiating a post Brexit trade deal, with the EU not wanting to compete against goods from the UK produced by workers with lower pay, conditions etc.
And a US "degree" is hardly comparable to one earned in the UK.
From what you say, it's not just the far East that employ staff under poorer conditions than the UK.
Shep
Member
- Location
- The Orchard County
You are all too generous! My brother in law gives his employees any calves he thinks are going to die! His exact words are "if it lives you can have it" and he tells me how grateful they are
Another perk is allowing them to house sit while he's on holiday! Which enables his employee and his girlfriend to have a "holiday" at the same time as him, therefore saving said employee a fortune in hotel fees and I am told how lucky they are to be able to stay in a house like his AND get paid to do all the work at the same time, so its win win really.
Another perk is allowing them to house sit while he's on holiday! Which enables his employee and his girlfriend to have a "holiday" at the same time as him, therefore saving said employee a fortune in hotel fees and I am told how lucky they are to be able to stay in a house like his AND get paid to do all the work at the same time, so its win win really.
- Location
- M6 Hard shoulder
Its the least we could do
multi power
Member
- Location
- pembrokeshire
Best post I have read in a very long time
- Location
- South wales
Struggling to get my head around that attitude if your good at your job, proud of where you work and helping keep your workplace or boss with a good reputation why would you not want to show and advertise your place of work as contractors it’s good advertising in my book
multi power
Member
- Location
- pembrokeshire
It's all about being an employee, not a slave
- Location
- North West Wales
I wear my branded polo shirts etc all the time, even at weekends and during holidays! The best ones go to work and the scruffy ones for weekend around the place. The best thing about branded clothes is that others can’t snub you for your choice/price/brand so you’re not conscious when choosing clothes in the morning just pick a polo shirt or shirt and tie depending what the day entails and throw your branded jacket over your sholders on way out of door. The other mega plus point is the money you save not buying clothes!!!
- Location
- South wales
Whose a bloody slave you work for someone doesn’t make you a slave ffs
BELOWAVERAGE
Member
How many employers have you worked for ? its surprising how many think they own you.
gone up the hill
Member
- Location
- Devon
New car/4x4 every 12 months.........??
Joking aside why do you not sit down with each employee and ask them what they would like over and above their regular pay packet OP?? ( and to make it fair to every employee set a budget per worker you are happy/can afford to pay but make sure if for example its 1k per worker who works 50 hours a week that one who works part time and does 25 hours a week only gets 500 quid spent on them )
Joking aside why do you not sit down with each employee and ask them what they would like over and above their regular pay packet OP?? ( and to make it fair to every employee set a budget per worker you are happy/can afford to pay but make sure if for example its 1k per worker who works 50 hours a week that one who works part time and does 25 hours a week only gets 500 quid spent on them )
- Location
- South wales
Plenty and no one made me work for any of them I could quit anytime I liked guess I’ve been lucky I’ve always been treated with respect could be that by having the right attitude I’ve earned that respect
BELOWAVERAGE
Member
Could be, you come across as one of those smugg A........ L.........
- Location
- South wales
aye that’s it nothing to do with just doing my job properly I guess
- Location
- somerset
a customer that i go to working at the end of the day, every day!! rings me to thank me for all i had done that day. that my freinds is worth more than any branded clothing , meals, gravel bags