O/T Farm job anyone?

[CAMiller]

I went pea picking quite a few times at holiday times/weekends when I was school age, loved it

Me too. Worked on a farm in Thorpe Hesley for a couple of summers when I was 15/16. Picking out wild oats, mucking out pigs, collecting eggs, repairing buildings, rat catching, baling, hanging out of tractor cabs whilst going full speed on the country roads around Wentworth. Best part of the day was when we were working in the yard and the farmers wife would bring out the mid morning/afternoon tea and biscuits. 45 years ago and remember it as if it was yesterday. Can't remember what I did yesterday though

[Brin]

I went pea picking quite a few times at holiday times/weekends when I was school age, loved it

Ahh, the old pea picking. Went as a young as 10 year old. Met outside Dalton Progressive club on Sunday mornings approx 6am and the farmer from Sprotborough, use to pick and choose who he wanted to take. When he came to me, my Mum said my little hands worked like bees wings so I managed to get on the back of the lorry, about 25 of us being bumped, thrown up and down all the way there, bet it looked a right sight with our washing baskets and buckets to collect the peas in flying all over the place. Paid 50p a sack if I remember correctly.

Potato picking - During the Miners strike, my mate found us a job on his Sister's farm out at Micklebring. Tight git of a farmer only paid us £1 an hour! The longest we worked one day was 15 hours with only one 30 minute break for lunch. When it got dark he would string up a car lamp over head on the back of the trailer and couple it up to the tractor battery. It would swing about like a scene from Callan .

We tried to nick a carrier bag of spuds and put them under the hedge hoping to get them later when we'd packed in but he found them. No one would own up who'd nicked em so he docked us all a £1. Suffice to say I packed it in as I ended up with tenosynovitis. Took weeks to heal and vowed never to do it again. When I look back and realise how much slave labour that was it makes me wonder why I ever let someone take advantage of my predicament but, you'd do just about anything back then just to survive the day.

[millertop]

We won’t get away with being on back of the lorry today

[CAMiller]

So you can mention the positives of immigration but not the negatives?

Romanians have taken over the cocaine trade in London, ask anyone who works in retail about the shoplifters, pickpockets on the Tube, *** traffickers, all in all it would be better if British people picked the crops I believe.

In order to counter balance the counter balancing. It may well be down to the oft inferred (on here) BBC bias but I happen to notice that many of those that have tragically lost their lives in the front line of health care, bus driving, etc. haven't had names like John Smith or Molly Brown

[WanChaiMiller]

Looks like farms are chartering flights to bring workers in from Romania.

https://bbc.in/2z040f2

[millertop]

Looks like farms are chartering flights to bring workers in from Romania.

https://bbc.in/2z040f2

Shows how lazy some are here if you ask me
Plenty on dole who could be doing this job but I suppose they have an excuse to sit on their arse all day.

It’s about time some took a good look at themselves

[avondalemiller]

...it's about time they said "this is your new job".........if they refuse, then no dole money.....By the way this aplies to any Nationality

[great_fire]

Shows how lazy some are here if you ask me
Plenty on dole who could be doing this job but I suppose they have an excuse to sit on their arse all day.

It’s about time some took a good look at themselves

Do they even advertise these jobs to British workers though?

Next offered it's warehouse jobs in South Elmsall to people in Poland before advertising them locally.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-new...polish-4709994

[flourbasher]

I would imagine that the farmers know that the European students will work quicker, longer and accept living accommodation that is a lesser standard.

[great_fire]

I would imagine that the farmers know that the European students will work quicker, longer and accept living accommodation that is a lesser standard.

They're getting £8.25 an hour what would they get in Romania, £1 an hour, £2 an hour?

That's like a British person getting paid £35 to £50 an hour, of course they'll be happier and more enthusiastic about it.