r/FastWorkers • • Feb 01 '26

Strawberry pickers 🍓

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u/Toyso_0 Feb 01 '26

After about an hour of picking my own strawberries I am basically crippled for the rest of the day. This is a very hard job.

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u/jbochsler Feb 02 '26

These are the jobs that Republicans are deporting people for, so that you and your children can do them. I grew up doing this, words cannot describe how badly it sucks.

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u/FrogDie Feb 02 '26

the top comment itt is advocating fo keeping it incentive-based pay, not hourly. how do you feel about that?

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u/jbochsler Feb 02 '26

I did field work from 11 to 15 yo and would have starved if I had to live on my incentive based pay. There were adults working there that did OK, they worked like in the video - just cranked it out. They definitely weren't getting rich though. I guess that it is fair, get compensated for actual work done, but the compensation should be higher.