So apple farmers are going to have a tough time harvesting this year according to a newspaper. It’s coming early, they need people, the article says. So why the fricking hell doesn’t it list who to contact to apply for it? I’m frigging dying for a temp job right now; one of the jobs I work now hasn’t given me hours in eight weeks, and the other can only offer me 5 hours per week.
Contacting the paper doesn’t work. The reporter didn’t even send back a courtesy reply to my email. Do I have to take every name in the article down and haul out the goddamn White Pages like some freaky Luddite stalker? Because it’s beginning to feel like that. —I Just Want To Work
This article appears in Aug 30 – Sep 5, 2012.
From what I understand they wouldn’t hire you anyway – they use only “skilled” workers, which apparently we can’t get locally.
(I’m not being facetious here, they literally recently did a story which included the “skills” they expected to have in their pickers).
” Do I have to take every name in the article down and haul out the goddamn White Pages like some freaky Luddite stalker?”
Well, since according to your handle “You Just Want To Work” that would probably be a good place to start. Good luck in your search.
“Do I have to take every name in the article down and haul out the goddamn White Pages like some freaky Luddite stalker?”
Ummmm….. no one’s going to hand you a job so… yes?
Try Service Canada/Human Resources Canada/ Employment Canada whatever they call themselves. They may have a list of the orchards looking for help. A little warning though. You have to be pretty good to be of use to them. Back in the day, two bins a day was the target (guesstimate of 800 apples a bin). You had to stick your ladder in the tree, sling your sack over your shoulder and start picking. When the sack is full of ripe apples, climb back down and dump your contents into the bin, not rocket science. Don’t try just picking up the ones on the ground either, they’re “juicers” and go in a separate bin.
I should mention, at least back then you were paid by the bin not the hour. The farmers aren’t idiots.
I didn’t mind the job, I just wasn’t fast enough. Too busy farting around with the ladder and eating the apples. Free delicious lunches, beautiful scenery (if you like apple trees) were some of benefits not to mention exercise and fresh air.
oh man, i would climb up that ladder and just perch myself inside the tree, munching apples and enjoying life. i would live in a tree if i could.
someone said to me ‘by the time you get too old to do certain things, the desire for them has passed, luckily’
not so on climbing trees. i still want to climb trees.
way to kick an apple when he’s down…
I’m too big to structurally support myself via stem….
so I get juiced … like salvaging a piece of garbage.
that’s rough.
No you don’t have to write every name down and search the white pages…Just posting in here should suffice! I’m sure your phone will be ringing off the hook any minute now. Or you could call your mommy to do the leg work for you. We’re fucking doomed with idiots like you coming up in this world.
No you don’t have to write every name down and search the white pages…Just posting in here should suffice! I’m sure your phone will be ringing off the hook any minute now. Or you could call your mommy to do the leg work for you. We’re fucking doomed with idiots like you coming up in this world.
Google?
One would think the fact I said I have two other jobs(three, now, I got a temp doing construction cleanup) shows I can do legwork. The main reason I was bitching was because nobody I had contacted with the paper bothered to even send back a form letter.
Thanks for the advice, Gidget and Troo.
the article in the paper was just that, a news item. not a job posting. and perhaps the reporter generously responded to the first 100 emails he got from people looking for contact names, and yours was 101st.
check the gubment website for jobs. they usually have them listed for seasonal pickers and shit. the job bank has tons of openings in all kinds of fields. that’s where i used to look, and in a matter of days, i was hired for whatever job, that i applied for. no matter what it was.
Yellow pages under apple orchards- duh. Be prepared to travel to the valley.