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Why won’t Brits pick vegetables for £30 an hour?
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<blockquote data-quote="melted welly" data-source="post: 7797060" data-attributes="member: 37168"><p>Not really, if you’re in a good squad and everyone pulls their weight, anything is a good job, because you’ve got a team spirit, if you have a laugh and a giggle then so much the better. Back hurts for a while, then the muscles get stronger.</p><p></p><p>There’s also the perennial misery-guts and moaners who, if they put half the effort into work as they did bitching and worrying about what everyone else is up to, could make as much as the grafters that they whine about. Used to be an old bint that came flower picking every year, half deaf, she’d phone at 5am every day, shouting questions, for a full month before we started. Then she’d come out, walk up and down a single drill, say “these flowers are shite”, get back in the car and feck off again till next year. <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="🙄" title="Face with rolling eyes :rolling_eyes:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/6.5/png/unicode/64/1f644.png" data-shortname=":rolling_eyes:" />.</p><p></p><p>Also a lot of the squads used to follow the seasonal work. Cornish flower pickers followed the flowers starting in the south in Jan, finish up here in April. I think they spent the summer either on the berries or going to festivals, or protesting against stuff, then apple picking, then picking whelks or cockles or something till the flowers came on. These guys used to follow the work. Head out in a motley crew of Sherpa and transit vans, complimented the local squads, bit of aggro between them tho. </p><p></p><p>There was a system that worked in the past. When tax went digital it forced the end of the cash in hand economy this workforce thrived on. So they either joined a ganger or didn’t bother, most gave it up, probably full time protestors now.</p><p></p><p>A good attitude never has a bad job. A bad attitude never has a good job.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="melted welly, post: 7797060, member: 37168"] Not really, if you’re in a good squad and everyone pulls their weight, anything is a good job, because you’ve got a team spirit, if you have a laugh and a giggle then so much the better. Back hurts for a while, then the muscles get stronger. There’s also the perennial misery-guts and moaners who, if they put half the effort into work as they did bitching and worrying about what everyone else is up to, could make as much as the grafters that they whine about. Used to be an old bint that came flower picking every year, half deaf, she’d phone at 5am every day, shouting questions, for a full month before we started. Then she’d come out, walk up and down a single drill, say “these flowers are shite”, get back in the car and feck off again till next year. 🙄. Also a lot of the squads used to follow the seasonal work. Cornish flower pickers followed the flowers starting in the south in Jan, finish up here in April. I think they spent the summer either on the berries or going to festivals, or protesting against stuff, then apple picking, then picking whelks or cockles or something till the flowers came on. These guys used to follow the work. Head out in a motley crew of Sherpa and transit vans, complimented the local squads, bit of aggro between them tho. There was a system that worked in the past. When tax went digital it forced the end of the cash in hand economy this workforce thrived on. So they either joined a ganger or didn’t bother, most gave it up, probably full time protestors now. A good attitude never has a bad job. A bad attitude never has a good job. [/QUOTE]
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