Hard workers.

[RSKY]

My disabled neighbor had let his yard get in a very bad shape. I couldn't help him out because I am about a month behind due to three funerals and a flooded bathroom at my mom's house. So he has hired this couple to help him. They look like they are killing snakes when they work. I mean they don't stop for anything and work hard. For $10/hour each. Now other neighbors are lining up to hire them. What they have done around the neighbors house in a week would have taken me a month.

Shows that if you want work you can find it.

RSKY

 

[2LaneCruzer]

My disabled neighbor had let his yard get in a very bad shape. I couldn't help him out because I am about a month behind due to three funerals and a flooded bathroom at my mom's house. So he has hired this couple to help him. They look like they are killing snakes when they work. I mean they don't stop for anything and work hard. For $10/hour each. Now other neighbors are lining up to hire them. What they have done around the neighbors house in a week would have taken me a month.

Shows that if you want work you can find it.

RSKY

It was that way when I was growing up, in rural Oklahoma, and from what I can tell, it that way most every where else. Folks were pretty much on their own, and if you wanted something, you worked for it. When I got out of high school, I wanted to go to college; my folks were not well to do, so I worked my way through. In those days, you took the best job you could find, which in most cases was a hard, dirty and often dangerous one...and every one I knew did just that...took whatever job they could find.

The mentality seems to have changed; practically all those type jobs today are being done by "others". But you're right. I don't think most folks want to find work that badly.

 

[Sigarms]

My disabled neighbor had let his yard get in a very bad shape. I couldn't help him out because I am about a month behind due to three funerals and a flooded bathroom at my mom's house. So he has hired this couple to help him. They look like they are killing snakes when they work. I mean they don't stop for anything and work hard. For $10/hour each. Now other neighbors are lining up to hire them. What they have done around the neighbors house in a week would have taken me a month.

Shows that if you want work you can find it.

RSKY

If they break something of your property, are they insured?

People are lining up because they are so cheap and apparently they do good work. As a business model, you can only do that for so long (doing good work at a cheap price) until you go out of business.

 

[Thomas]

Couple young guys starting to do fall clean up different homes,indeed hard workers and I get tried watching them...ahhhh to be that young again full of p... and vinegar as they say.

 

[/pine]

Self employment and working for wages (just supplying a labor service) is not really a business model...unless their overhead increases and cuts into their earnings...they can raise their rates a little at a time based on reputation as long as their production and quality of work keeps up...

 

[Industrial Toys]

Not meaning to play Devils advocate. But sometimes you can bust your balls for little money and in the end, find you can't pay the bills. Some people work for little, putting gas in the unlicensed/uninsured car and a day old loaf of bread on the table but have left their creditors in the lurch.

 

[turnkey4099]

If they break something of your property, are they insured?

People are lining up because they are so cheap and apparently they do good work. As a business model, you can only do that for so long (doing good work at a cheap price) until you go out of business.

Yep, that couple are waaayyy undervaulueing their time and work. That isn't even beginning wages in this area.

 

[atsah]

At least they want to work and are good at it.. When I was growing up I worked for 5 neighbors, these days it's hard to find anyone to do anything.. In those days there was not even a thought of insurance, I didn't even know what that was for until I had to register my first car, if I broke something I would to pay to fix it, if I hurt myself at someones house while working the last thing anyone would do is think lawyers, not today..

 

[Industrial Toys]

You want something like a split rail fence fixed up a bit, forget about finding someone. But it's pretty much been like that for thirty years or more. It hasn't helped that the (Liberal) Government raised the minimum wage sky high.

You wouldn't mind hiring casual labor if people were available and then available for the duration, not coming late and leaving early, and BTW they can't come tomorrow, and would bring some skill and work ethic to the job at hand. Oh, and leave that dammmed phone in the truck or better yet at home!

 

[QRTRHRS]

On the rare occasions that I need to hire someone like that, we agree on a wage or a price. If in a case like this, if the workers go above and beyond, I pay them extra. Everyone walks away happy.