6/ Before anyone else gives me advice, let me mention that there is a limited labor pool, everyone sucks, it takes a lot of work to find ANYONE (even someone who sucks), and if you fire someone mid season than YOU are doing their job until you can find a replacement. so...
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17/ It wasn't a family vacation. It wasn't $10/hr. Otherwise, good argument. https://twitter.com/HitorMissDSA/status/1155894889890099200 …
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18/ I pay $12/hr, which is 50%-100% higher than prevailing summer job wages around here (I know because I researched this by asking local business and employees).
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19/ Perhaps your experience of employing farm labor trumps my own, "college reactionary". But from the local farmers I've talked to, hourly wages are the norm. https://twitter.com/BorgiaKing/status/1155897101315989504 …
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20/ Reading comprehension is important,
@NoR3funds. I pay $12/hr. The $2.50/hr was a hypothetical of what goes WRONG with setting piece-work rates. https://twitter.com/NoR3funds/status/1155895099190108160 …This Tweet is unavailable.Show this thread -
21/ I'm not miserable, NEET. https://twitter.com/John99601526/status/1155897263958450177 …
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22/ A process request: anyone who wants to give me advice on how to recruit and manage labor: please feel free! ...but... please include your experience running a farm and/or a startup, so I can calibrate. Thx. https://twitter.com/iamstillbored1/status/1155898092593352705 …
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23/ "listen, Morlock, you might think you know what the local day labor scene is like from having researched it and talked to small business owners and farmers in the area, but let me tell you the truth" ok, great, thx also: see transpo and training https://twitter.com/form_break/status/1155898547465854976 …
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24/ so you're telling me that the secret to getting a farm hand who will weed, mow the lawn, inject Japanese knotweed, burn brush piles, etc., is to find a firm that will deliver these services? interesting I looked and did not find. Phone # plz? https://twitter.com/BorgiaKing/status/1155898582790213632 …
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@NoR3funds is upset that I'm not paying my 19yo college student enough during his 12 week summer job to support a family good point@NoR3funds ! I'm the WORST ! https://twitter.com/NoR3funds/status/1155899181791416325 …This Tweet is unavailable.Show this thread -
26/ spontaneous generation you leave an empty bag of Doritos next to a videogame controller, and you get a twitter expert a week later https://twitter.com/ShitLordReflex/status/1155899655189716993 …
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29/ every business in the area: pays teens $8 / hr me: pays teens $12/hr
@NoR3funds: you are so arrogant for not paying that teenager enough to support a family LOL, go away NEET. Your MMORPG guild needs you for something very very important. https://twitter.com/NoR3funds/status/1155900456138420225 …This Tweet is unavailable.Show this thread -
30/ Rural NH. I asked teen employees at 3 different stores "hey, I'm looking to hire farm hands. Is XYZ a fair rate?" Every one of them: "OMG, yes, I make QRS; that's a great rate". /shrug https://twitter.com/form_break/status/1155900165078827008 …
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31/ Amusingly, I'm getting a very very libertarian response from all sorts of people who are not libertarians (reactionaries, lefists, etc): "There's a simple supply / demand curve. If you pay more you, you get better labor." I'm a libertarian! I'm quite sympathetic to this!
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32/ BUT BUT BUT reality is more complicated than models. Models INTENTIONALLY strip away all sorts of details to make things simple. Cows are not perfectly spherical. Surfaces are not frictionless. Search and training costs for employees are not $0.
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33/ Not sure if you're aware but when I talk about the situation with farmhands on my particular farm, I don't actually care what the labor market is like in Berlin Maine or Montepellier Vermont. https://twitter.com/form_break/status/1155902427746508801 …
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34/ Indeed! Nearest tractor supply was 45 minutes away, East of Manchester. Then they opened a new one - a mere 25 minutes away. LUXURY. https://twitter.com/PWilliamKitty/status/1155902598987358211 …
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36/ me, after weeding for an hourhttps://twitter.com/MorlockP/status/1154820420752805888 …
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37/ "you should search for people offering the service you want" THAT NEVER OCCURRED TO ME THANK YOU INTERNET HELPER ! https://twitter.com/JoesBarAndCult/status/1155902993398583297 …
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38/ sorry I didn't respond to this earlier, I was out showing the farm hand how to start the riding mower when the display says "needs oil change" but actually he overcranked the starter and the voltage was low anyway, you were saying? https://twitter.com/form_break/status/1155903380738494464 …
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39/ > transportation is only an issue if you're remote GOD DAMN IT, WALTER, THIS IS A THREAD ABOUT *** FARM *** LABOR DO YOU THINK I'M GOD-DAMN LOCATED BETWEEN CENTRAL PARK AND GREENWHICH VILLAGE? https://twitter.com/form_break/status/1155903380738494464 …
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40/ ok, done now your turn, NEET also post squat, bench, and mils https://twitter.com/the_Loafbloke/status/1155902517483593728 …
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41/ Dude, you've spent well more than 10 minutes today micro-managing me telling me that managing employees doesn't take 10 minutes per day. Stahhp. You're embarassing yourself. https://twitter.com/form_break/status/1155907580008521729 …
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42/ > misreads tweet Lmfaooooo ur a scumbag dude lmaoooo respect https://twitter.com/Olive__Autist/status/1155907647780151298 …
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46/ another datum for the thesis "anyone who's actually been in my shoes has reached the same conclusion":https://twitter.com/cahuntington/status/1155912330187870214 …
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