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Why won’t Brits pick vegetables for £30 an hour?
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<blockquote data-quote="Cowabunga" data-source="post: 7796947" data-attributes="member: 718"><p>I used to work on a vegetable farm and it was bloody hard work. I didn't do piecework but worked alongside gangs of pieceworkers, mainly Irish back then. To earn good money you need to not only work consistently quickly and efficiently but those around you supplying baskets and containers and shifting them and feeding the riddles or washers need consistent service with minimal delays and a demand for a full day's work every day, rain or shine. I remember doing 'neeps' in the pouring rain one Saturday morning, covered in mud, knives in hand, with steam rising from myself and my fellow worker's sodden clothes when two Swiss au-pairs and a rather lovely groom came by on horseback and I remember commenting that only mad dogs and Swiss girls were daft enough to be out in that weather.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Cowabunga, post: 7796947, member: 718"] I used to work on a vegetable farm and it was bloody hard work. I didn't do piecework but worked alongside gangs of pieceworkers, mainly Irish back then. To earn good money you need to not only work consistently quickly and efficiently but those around you supplying baskets and containers and shifting them and feeding the riddles or washers need consistent service with minimal delays and a demand for a full day's work every day, rain or shine. I remember doing 'neeps' in the pouring rain one Saturday morning, covered in mud, knives in hand, with steam rising from myself and my fellow worker's sodden clothes when two Swiss au-pairs and a rather lovely groom came by on horseback and I remember commenting that only mad dogs and Swiss girls were daft enough to be out in that weather. [/QUOTE]
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