Cher, I'm gonna have to hire me a Mexican.

[Jolly]

That's what a cajun (dude, he's got papers) friend of mine told me this morning. He's picking his corn starting Monday and is having a devil of a time hiring help.

He keeps one farmhand on the payroll full-time and hire part-time help for harvest season. Problem is, nobody wants to work. It'll take Ken a couple of weeks to get his corn in, then he'll pick his beans and finish up with his cotton...So it's not like a temp employee wouldn't get six weeks work, or better...But nobody wants it.

[jon-nyc]

...at the wages he’s offering.”

[Jolly]

Which is around $10/hour, no OT, but they're working seven days a week, fourteen hours a day. That's over $6000 for six weeks work.

[Catseye3]

So 42 days of 14-hour workdays in a row.

Whew!

[George K]

@Catseye3 said in Cher, I'm gonna have to hire me a Mexican.:

So 42 days of 14-hour workdays in a row.

Whew!

? Tax-Free ?

[Jolly]

@George-K said in Cher, I'm gonna have to hire me a Mexican.:

@Catseye3 said in Cher, I'm gonna have to hire me a Mexican.:

So 42 days of 14-hour workdays in a row.

Whew!

? Tax-Free ?

1099. Contract labor.

[Jolly]

@Catseye3 said in Cher, I'm gonna have to hire me a Mexican.:

So 42 days of 14-hour workdays in a row.

Whew!

It's a farm. That's how you work on a farm, come planting or harvesting season. You either have to get it in the ground or you have to gather it in. Crops wait for no man.

[Horace]

1000/week is less than unemployment after the $600 fed bonus.

[jon-nyc]

Not for a farm hand in LA.

And it ends tomorrow

[Horace]

They'll take my $600/week when they pry it out of my cold dead fingers