Posted on 02/23/2017 12:27:49 PM PST by SeekAndFind
As a computer science professor, I had a notable bright student who relished his bright-blue hair and deranged attire. One day, instead of seeing him arrive, there was a new sensibly-dressed fellow with jet-black hair. Ooops, same guy. Seems he nailed an interview for a really interesting job - but was told he didn’t get it because of his unprofessional appearance. Kid learned fast the hard way.
That’s true. And as soon as it is more expensive for them to pay for the illegals than it is for the machinery they will switch. They get cheaper labor, and the taxpayers have to pay for the now mandatory services for their families, and it is supposed to be for our benefit because our lettuce is cheap? I’ll pay more for lettuce.
Yup, my mother worked in the fields growing up (eventually earning her Electrical Engineering degree).
Problem nowadays is the Left is he11-bent on criminalizing low-value work. If you can’t produce at least $15/hr value, they want to punish you for working at all.
Good lesson to learn.
A few years ago, we had an after hours company function. Our intern got himself rip-roaring drunk and it really wasn’t pretty.
Several of us, including a couple high level execs separately took it upon ourselves to have a conversation with him and counsel him that even after hours, you’re still on duty and need to act like it.
A former employee, who was probably let go ultimately because of his drinking passed out and froze to death in his driveway a couple years before that incident so this kid was shown that he was going down a bad path.
There’s no reason we can’t have a sane, organized guest worker program.
Benjamin, I just want to say one word to you. Just one word.
Yes, sir.
Are you listening?
Yes, I am.
Robots
30 years ago there was no shortage of documented seasonal-workers in my area. The farmers provided housing, mid-day meal and bus transportation to and from Mexico.
The use of illegals removed the above benefits from the work contract which was replaced with a day’s pay for a day’s work.
Some farmers even went as far as to go to Mexico and contract with certain villages to provide the labor. The villagers like it because they got a free ride/lodging/meal each day and were able to work with the same people they grew up with. At the end of the season everyone went home on the same bus and took care of Mexico stuff then returned the next season.
The responsibility lays with the farmer to obtain labor. Profits will not be as high as with illegal workers but everyone is going to have to pay the price for our national sin of ignoring the law for the past 30 years.
The notion that we are all going to starve is ludicrous.
Bkmk
I have a friend who sells farm machinery to farmers to avoid using illegal labor and the problems associated with that.
The first is a unique one that be towed by a four wheel drive pickup truck and it clears about 2 acres+ per hour:
See the link below for this reasonable priced equipment:
http://www.scottsturfequipment.net/showcaseproductdetail.htm?id=22142674
The next one cuts brush, trees up to 6 inches:
The other one is a big piece of equipment capable of clearing weeds at the rate of 20 to 25 acres per hour. I don’t have the link for that one.
My 73 year old parents would have a hard time picking strawberries.
I consciously cut my hair short at 17, and kept it that way, so that people would not think I was/am a pot head.
It was mostly a police thing. They always seemed to go for the low hanging fruit.
“On about the fifth day, I noticed that our coworkers, all Hispanic, were doing things differently. By the time Dennis and I got dropped off by my mother at 8:30 a.m., they’d been on the job for hours, taking advantage of first daylight, and they rarely stuck around after two p.m.”
So we noticed this and we noticed that and we saw this and we saw this and we saw that and we experienced this and we experienced that but we somehow COULD NOT LEARN THIS PART.
“ultimately because of his drinking passed out and froze to death”
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That’s what happened to Senator George McGovern’s daughter——very sad story.
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Could we have welfare recipients do it as a condition of benefits?
I have and have had several clients that are building H2A worker housing facilities on their property over the past 2 years here in the Yakima Valley.
Working on 2 projects for them right now. They are required to build modern living quarters for them. No more shanty housing sites. Most build soccer fields for them as well. Camps typically range between 48-96 workers.
They can’t pick asparagus with a machine. Although they have been trying to develop one for the past 20 years
Of course, you could have followed their example, started at daylight and knocked off around 2:00.
I picked shade tobacco in Windsor CT from 1972 to 1975(age 14-17). Started out at 1.38 an hour the 1st year and got up to 1.95 the last year.
Had to get up at 5:30 and walk 2 miles to the bus stop. With 2 PBJ sandwiches in a bag and a jug of Kool-Aide in my hands.
The season was about 10 weeks long. The 1st week was suckuring, picking off the little useless leaves on the plant.You were sitting on the rocky ground for 8 hours going from plant to plant. Rain or shine.
When the plants started getting big enough to pick, They took a ruler measured at 14 inches and drew a line on your arm and you picked the leaves that were that size and longer.
It was hot and dirty work. Tobacco is sticky. After 8 hours your hair on your arms and head are coated with the sticky tars. It took 20 minutes of showering to wash off the filth.
Back then it was a right of passage for the local kids to work the farms and make good money. By the 80’s the kids stopped working that job. The farms started bringing more migrants in to do the work. This type of farming will never be automated even today because the fragility of the tobacco leave.
If you ever read MLK’s autobiography, he devoted a chapter of his time working in the same tobacco fields of Connecticut.
...And the $5/head lettuce is total BS.
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