Off Topic Produce picking

Well don’t to the Eastern European’s who have agreed to be flown in to work the fields to pick our fruit and veg.

Such a shame that all the advertised vacancies weren’t snapped up by brits. There’s loads of folk who moan about being out of work (pre Corona too) and yet can’t be ****ing arsed to bend down picking veg in a field.. especially in a time of crisis like we are.

 

Yep. I was against Brexit but next time I hear "bloody foreigners coming over here and stealing our jobs" I will actually lose my ****

 

I think the problem is that the wage is dreadful and the young brits who would do this don't usually live in the country. When commuting to a farm for minimum wage you end up making more /similar money on universal credit

 

There is plenty of fruit picking jobs needing help from May & June onwards, i looked online the wage varies from £7.25 - £10.00 an hour, randomly selecting various farms from Kent to Scotland thoughout the UK. Requiring shifts as much as 50 hours per week. Universal Credit for a single person can only be about £70-90 quid a week, so you could probably earn that in a day. Plenty youth of today still at home with mum & dad that could go and do it

 

The guys flying in from Romania will mostly be from rural backgrounds i.e they know the score (work hard, play hard). Work is work imo but picking fruit and veg is deemed as back breaking work and beneath the average person in Britain. As brb says the pay and working conditions are generally good but they just don't want to work. I am a farmer myself and I know a few veg growing colleagues who stuggle to employ/keep local labour.

 

agreed. The country is just full of lazy snowflake ****s who can’t be arsed. They trot out all the spin about it not being ‘enough’ etc. What happened to pride?

hell, I worked down a nightclub till 3am when I was 14 cos my mam drilled into me a decent work ethic. I hadn’t even discovered lasses at that point. I was once out of work for 2 weeks too and couldn’t bring myself to sign on cos it just didn’t feel right.

the youth of today!

I’d go work in the fields in a heartbeat if I had no job.

 

agree 100%. Part of our business is in a Boston and it’s the foreign lads and lasses that seem to put the most graft in and then the locals bitch about them.

 

This coming recession will be sure to shake a few lazy cobwebs off.
Hard times ahead.

 

hope so.

I don’t wanna do without my Celeric and Caulis.

 

Exploiting child labour isn’t my idea of a decent work ethic.

I take it you were working as the lad that hands out the paper towels in the toilets. The experience of doing that probably scarred you for life. I, for one, now understand why you head straight there in the Earl and will never criticise you for that again.

 

Or was he the black guy in the bogs with all the aftershave?

No Armani no punani

 

why pick fruit for nowt when you can make money peddling powder.

 

I think they will pay you. Can't see a lot of Eastern Europeans coming over to do it for free.

And obviously if everybody sold coke that would require an unlimited supply and the bottom would then drop out of the market and you would get more fruit picking.

 

i was talking about milk

 

racist stereotyper... what’s wrong with white guys handing out aftershave homes?

 

Lol, people haven't realised by now what a society we've become?

Celebrity culture
The constant attacks on public sector workers
Selfish drivers
People would rather take benefits then work for the same amount of money

I could go on but it's sunny outside

 

tbh they are not looking at it being a permanent role and now people have seen 21 year olds perish with no underlying health issues, so I don't blame them.. I wouldnt risk my life picking fruit on a crap salary on a temporary basis would you? perhaps if it was a permanent improvement financially it would be less thick to do it.

 

Aye good on those Romanians for coming here for work. It'd be totally wrong for food to rot in fields with supermarket veg shelves being empty. We need workers and will soon need the young.

The first steps of ending lockdown IMO will probably be for the young to be allowed out and start to turn the wheels of industry. They will be the next group who our country will count on to survive this crisis.