Fruit picking Jobs

[billysboy]

With so many Fruit Picking Jobs available aibu to think that a few of the people already in this country would want to take them up

It feels as if we are paying 1m to stay at home rather than take up this work
Its hard work no doubt but also pays £10-15 an hour is it beneath too many people?

Have just looked at that website, and apparently farmers in Scotland are getting loads of applications.

My local farm has said they don’t have any vacancies.

Winter2020 - the big problem is that it’s seasonal only, and we do not have the capacity any more to allow British people to work only for one season.

Agricultural labourers were always the poorest, even pre-industrial revolution when agriculture was almost the only way of life. You need an independent source of survival means to be able to work seasonally only.

On another post, somebody was saying that conscription would be used for fruit picking. In a very smug way, implying THEY wouldn’t be the ones conscripted. But okay for everybody else to do.

Yeah no.. I'm not being guilted into going an living on site away from my family to pick fruit just because I've been furloughed through no fault of my own OP but nice try.

You are allowed to work elsewhere while furloughed btw. You're just not allowed to work for the employeer who is furloughing you. There is nothing (legally) to stop you from getting another job elsewhere. - just adding this as I've seen a few people say they can't get another job because they're furloughed.

I personally have not applied for any fruit picking jobs mainly because I live nowhere near a farm, I can't drive, and I have a five year old to look after. I do not believe that British people are lazy, I think that's a lazy stereotype.

You're allowed if your contract doesn't forbid it.

If the locals did the job the farmers would have to treat them with respect, pay them a proper wage and not be able to screw them over to get it back from paying for piss poor accommodation.

Brits are definitely on a lazier side of a scale here if we are comparing brits and foreigners

Yes how very lazy of them not wanting to risk homelessness by living away from their social housing flat.

Still then someone like you can then insist their homelessness was caused by drugs so all good

I think people are unaware that those who have lost their jobs have anything earned during their statutory notice period deducted from their notice pay, including JSA if you are eligible, whether you claim or not. Mine is 12 weeks. Not only do I have no childcare, I'd be working for free. No thanks.

So dont you need your fruits, vegs and meat if you are not prepared to grow, pick and prepare it yourselves? What are you going to eat after brexit? There will be big shortages of food starting this summer. Youve been warned.

Where am I going to keep this "meat" I am supposed to prepare myself? Stick a pig in the bathtub for a few months while I fatten it up?

DrMaryMalone
"It makes sense to have a dedicated on site staff bank who can be trained together & transported together to cut down on both costs and time."
I'm sure it would be cost effective for lots of employers to have staff "on site staff trained together and transported together" but we are talking about people not cattle and it sounds absolutely appalling.

Do you think it's ok in parts of the world where people work long days in factories and then sleep onsite before getting up to work again or is it only ok to expect that on farms. Perhaps some of our shops/factories and call centres are missing a trick?

YABU

I am an immigrant myself and in my current job my boss had to choose from around 350 applicants - the vast majority in this town are white british and he hired me

So not only are you a 'pretty one' but you're an outstanding employee too! Well done you!

Why not tell us where you're from - not some coy 'in my country' - so we can all make sweeping negative generalisations about your country too?

many of them were (then called) gypsies and they were the fastest pickers and highest earners
with (presumably)limited opportunities for employment it makes sense for them to focus on this work and be as efficient as they can at it.
For those who have other avenues open to them it makes less sense to invest themselves in that line of work.
It comes down to incentives, you check out the scene and then proceed according to what appears to be your best interests!

My son has applied as he is a student but heard nothing. Apparently they're full for April.

@IcedPurple Latvia. Go ahead but only if you lived there long enough to make any generalisations. I have lived in UK for over 15 years now so can pretty much say I have seen enough to have my opinion on certain things

If Brits are so awful and lazy, and Latvia full of hard working exemplary employees, why on earth did you leave ?

There are lots of problems with post soviet countries (think corrupt governments; massive gap between very rich and very poor) but people being "known" as lazy is not one of them. People are allowed to travel and move countries you know so dont really inderstand your question. Whos saying Im staying here much longer? Me and my husband now have properties in other countries so nothing is stopping us moving again. Especially once UK goes into recession. We are not tide to one country. But this is not what this whole thread is about. Paldies par lasīšanu.

Good luck with finding a country to move to that isn’t going to go into a recession.

@IcedPurple Latvia. Go ahead but only if you lived there long enough to make any generalisations. I have lived in UK for over 15 years now so can pretty much say I have seen enough to have my opinion on certain things

I've never lived in Latvia, because hardly anyone - including many Latvians - wants to live in Latvia.

However, many Latvians want to live in Britain. If Latvia is so wonderful and full of such fantastic people, why do so many of them want to leave? Ask just about anyone, anwhere if they'd prefer to live in Britain or Latvia, and virtually all of them will choose Britain.

Including you.

when i go on furlough at the end of the month part of the condition is im not allowed to do other paid work, so for some people they will be in the same boat

Only for your current employer - if your contract would usually allow you to pick up a 2nd job then you are still allowed to while furloughed

You have to tell first employer you have a second job who has the right to not pay at all.

@IcedPurple lol at you. It is all quite the opposite. People live in UK only temporary and never see this country as their actual long term home. Yes you can earn very good money here - I am being paid twice as my direct (british) supervisees which allowed me to get my house built back home with no lifetime mortgages etc. Its a win win. Some people live here and get very VERY generous benefits which are shared with their families back home. Once the financial side is sorted - the vast majority of my fellow Latvians (I trust I know more of them than you?) will go back home to live stress and debt free life. Who wants to live in a damp rainy country for ever? No thank you. The only thing to say - thank you for the generous salaries, free healthcare, generous benefits and your laziness which allowed us (foreigners) to blossom.