realjohnboy wrote: I get people coming into my store and the conversation goes like this: "You don't have any job openings, do you?" "Correct, I don't." "Sign this form saying that I applied."
If I did offer them a job, I suspect that some of them would run like hell
realjohnboy, thanks for the good laugh this morning.
I remember working for a farmer when a teenager. I worked every day for $6.00 per day plus room and board during the week in the summer. This was in the early 60's. I went home Saturday night for Sunday off, then went back to work Monday morning. Most of the time, I was plowing, or cultivating fields, not physically hard, but dirty and long hours, usually from about 7 or 7:30 in the morning to 7:30 or 8 in the evening. If harvesting, it would be later at night, sometimes midnight before we quit. We did not have air conditioned tractors with GPS, etc. in those days. Intermittently, our job was putting up hay. My boss continued paying me $6.00 per day, even though it was harder work.
Now, this is the interesting part I want to tell: When we put up hay, usually lasting 4 or 5 days at a time, we needed more help, so I would ride with my boss, drive into town to the unemployment office, where quite a few guys would be lollygagging around outside. The boss would ask anyone want work. There would not be an answer yes or no, but the first question from some would be "doing what?" "Putting up hay" would be the answer, at which time at least half or more would say they had a bad back, or they wanted no part of that. Second question by a couple of the remaining people would be "How much pay?" When the boss said $1.50 per hour, which was more than twice what I was making by the way, most of the remaining would say they had an appointment, or another job possibility, or something. Now, the possibilities would be down to maybe 6 guys out of maybe 2 dozen originally. A couple guys would have the third question "Can I get paid each day after work?" If the boss said no, I would rather pay after the 4 or 5 day job because he knew if he paid after the first day, nobody would show up the second day because they got drunk with the money. He might get 1 guy to agree to his offer to pay after the whole job, but usually he would have to agree to pay after the first day to get the 2 or 3 guys we usually needed. Sure enough, the second day, we would usually have to recruit at least 1, maybe 2 new ones, as maybe only 1 out of the 3 original would show up every day.
Another footnote to this, we had to have extra help, but 4 guys instead of 1 did not quadruple the rate of work, because they needed breaks twice as often, and of course the employment office stipulated that breaks were required, and usually this ended up sitting around and watch them smoke and look at their watch, to see how much time was left in the day. Breaks always stretched into 10 or 15 minutes longer than usual by the time the guys could get their cigarettes put away, 2nd and 3rd drinks of water, their gloves on, and everything else. Kind of like herding butterflies.
healthy, and fat people cannot be considered to be healthy people.
