Paying trimmers

Diabolical666

Diabolical666

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The more I think about it...the more I get butthurt at the fact they could have trimmed prety fast all along and just refused to be lazy and take smoke breaks every 20 min. No one will be coming back next year except the female. She did the same fast work when paid hourly or piece rate. Im only having females do work for me from now on bc I get super slack ass work out of men.
 
Aeroknow

Aeroknow

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I pay $150 per pound of indoor. Outdoor worked completely dif. A couple of my really close buddies take care of all of mine, but mostly one of them, practically full time. Again, this is indoor.
Usually takes about 6 hrs to trim a pound. That's 200 bucks for 8 hrs. Usually!
Not bad when I think of when I was working in the trades. Gone for 10-11 hrs a day, busted my back, and only took home about 850-900 a week after taxes.
 
Growan

Growan

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Diabolical666 said:
OK lesson learned here....I was paying hourly and was ending up finishing most of the plant myself.
I was thinking one day how they do it in the orchards...how they pay by the basket...soooo thats how I'm doing it. I went and got bowls that are all the same size and told the trimmers yesterday that I am now paying $20 a bowl. These same people I had trimming for me before..all of a sudden were flying threw these buds. 1 finished 4 bowls in 3.5 hrs, 1 did 2 bowls in 4 hrs, and the other 7 bowls in 6 hrs. What they cranked out before ...was well i wont even mention it , its embarrassing...hence why I was doing most the plant. I went from working 8-10 hrs on these trimming crew days to 4hrs.
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I've done a lot of farm work in the past, apples, beans, strawberries, asparagus, spuds....and I'm quite proud to say I don't work noticeably faster on piece rate than hourly, and the quality of my work doesn't differ too much either.
I prefer hourly, because there is no incentive to skimp the job to earn more. I'd rather work for a set rate and earn a bonus for actually being good at it.

I was a rare breed among the itinerant farm workers I knew.
 
Darth Vapour

Darth Vapour

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like i said used to do that but after people got extradicted and still in jail today over 7 years now from some fucking RAT in USA that got caught and squeeled like a pig .. and set everyone up and after being watched and investigated ( 5 Year before the take down ) i moved to the other end of the country and stopped doing 1200 plant out door grows,, now i do less then 6 plant grows and
am happy
specially when its illegal to grow period i take it as a close call specially when they know who the fuck you are changes the whole ball game .. the days of spending 15,000 on soil and amendments for 1200 plants are over for this cat yeah meat head
But what is great is i made you look like a fool with pictures of your name lmao now sit down gallery_11738_4816_76170.jpggallery_11738_4818_62546.jpg

PS: that was one of 2 super B trailers for a total of 32 yards and 2 flat bed trailers 20 skids of goodies
 
Diabolical666

Diabolical666

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Aeroknow said:
I pay $150 per pound of indoor. Outdoor worked completely dif. A couple of my really close buddies take care of all of mine, but mostly one of them, practically full time. Again, this is indoor.
Usually takes about 6 hrs to trim a pound. That's 200 bucks for 8 hrs. Usually!
Not bad when I think of when I was working in the trades. Gone for 10-11 hrs a day, busted my back, and only took home about 850-900 a week after taxes.
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See thats what I get pissed about right there.....
These same people work their real jobs during the week making no more then 15 an hour..and you know they are doing a good job bc they would be fired otherwise. But what do I get for 20 an hr....? slack as shit. makes zero sense to me that I cant get 100% out of them hourly.
 
charface

charface

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Diabolical666 said:
See thats what I get pissed about right there.....
These same people work their real jobs during the week making no more then 15 an hour..and you know they are doing a good job bc they would be fired otherwise. But what do I get for 20 an hr....? slack as shit. makes zero sense to me that I cant get 100% out of them hourly.
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I think that is why the going rate is 10 per hour here.
They cant fuck that up.
 
vostok

vostok

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Unclebaldrick said:
wait a minute comrade... first they were wetbacks and now they are greedy? Are the polemics getting to you Vostok? Is there no middle ground between the classes?
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Thank you Balders...but I'm merely pointing out ..that even in our new canna industry that theres opportunity for the poor and underfed to be exploited, the instant comparison of trimmers to apple pickers is disturbing
 
Unclebaldrick

Unclebaldrick

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vostok said:


Thank you Balders...but I'm merely pointing out ..that even in our new canna industry that theres opportunity for the poor and underfed to be exploited, the instant comparison of trimmers to apple pickers is disturbing
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:)

But apples have to be picked...

And buds have to be trimmed...

looks like the road to a win-win is open.
 
Unclebaldrick

Unclebaldrick

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Diabolical666 said:
The more I think about it...the more I get butthurt at the fact they could have trimmed prety fast all along and just refused to be lazy and take smoke breaks every 20 min. No one will be coming back next year except the female. She did the same fast work when paid hourly or piece rate. Im only having females do work for me from now on bc I get super slack ass work out of men.
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charface

charface

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vostok said:


Thank you Balders...but I'm merely pointing out ..that even in our new canna industry that theres opportunity for the poor and underfed to be exploited, the instant comparison of trimmers to apple pickers is disturbing
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I appreciate your sentiment for sure in theory I agree.
The regular trimmers I know are people who would just be sitting around all day smoking so any money they make
is just bonus.
If you offer them a full time job they would cough up a lung to get out of it.
They aren't walking here from an impoverished country.
They enjoy their freedom.

Typically people who smoke your weed for free daily anyway.
 
vostok

vostok

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The trimmers I know of are poor as fuck, many consider a dumpster an envious abode,

one lived in a fridge cardboard box until it was stolen, many break the law just to get a cell in winter

and yeah many can be found decomposing down some back alley, many are well educated

but have had some shit hit on them from which they never recovered

just look to Bill Gates brother for an example
 
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