"Locals don't want this work anymore"
Says the guy that pays 50 cents per cow
this post was submitted on 30 Jul 2025
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Locals don't want to do this work anymore!
Edit: now in meme format
This is a bit tangential, but several months ago I was waiting in line and overheard a couple of men talking about a local chicken farm that is hiring for $12 an hour and how they can't find any help except for "Mexicans".
While I don't know if that's the average wage for that type of work in my area, I do know that even the dollar store starts people out at $15 an hour because they have signs outside stating that. I'm sure it's part-time only and you have to pass a drug test, but still.
I'm out of work at the moment, and while I certainly wouldn't be jumping for joy over a temporary job at the chicken farm, I can tell you that I'd definitely consider it for the right price. But $12 and no benefits is not the right price, even if it's unreported (i.e. untaxed) paid in cash.
With manual labor jobs there is also the problem of schedule.
If you are working as general laborer at some warehouse and boss decides to move into a bigger one for example.
You will have to work 11 hours a day for 9 days straight disassembling racks and loading steel beams into trucks.
I understand that things like wage and benefits must be your first priority, but it is disturbing that the horrific abuse of vulnerable individuals on a scale that amounts to atrocity isn't at least a close second.
Locals don't want to work for what you want to pay them.
Thoughts and prayers.
Thoughts: You voting for Trump was an terminally stupid idea in your position.
Prayers: May you rot in hell.
Imagine living in Vermont and allowing yourself to be convinced that the border in Texas is the number one issue your country can solve for you. For context, the closest point in Vermont to the closest point on the border is 1800 miles and change. For European context, that's just about the same as the distance from Madrid to Helsinki
How many brown people can possibly be in VERMONT?! Just looked, it's around 1 in 10. They're up there with Maine and New Hampshire FFS.
Raise wages or gtfo.
I'm honestly curious, what did they think "fixing the borders" meant?
They thought they were going to revive the bookstore, maybe? Barnes and Noble needs some competition 🤷🏼♂️
Whatever it is convenient for it to mean at any particular point in time.
"I thought they were gonna sterilize the people who rent rooms."
Ah you see the border needs some replacement panels, a few plants here and there. Some of the rails have rotted.
They need to get it fixed
Not like they are hand milking; it is just guiding the cow into a stall, cleaning the udders, and putting the machine on the teets.
They do have automatic milkers that allow to cows to milk when they want to milk without a human being involved... But I guess an exploited lower class is more profitable.
My dad had that in freaking 80's. I saw in action it was cool as shit for a 9 years old. We didn't even have to guide them in our nothing. Apparently once you had them trained enough they milk themselves on regular all by themselves.
The only thing a person had to do was clean up the shit and piss. I still remember having that job at 11. It sucked, but it has to be done. Probably what that farmer really bitching about.
It is hard to tell with the footage from the two news articles he was in(his farm or stock footage?), but it seems that he has the manual milkers.
He has been profiting off gov subsidies(probably) and illegal labor and hasn't been investing into automation, if that is the case.
It's probably what this dude is talking about. Somehow doing that at 4 am because they still need to do some things manual.
Locals won’t let you exploit them.
The Price is Right failure horns play
What a dumb ass.
Welcome to most of Trump's base.
get a milkingroboter then. even our fucking tiny farms, compared to america, in austria buy them more and more. xD
Yeah my dad had automated dairy farm, the cows walked themselves in and basically milked themselves. This was in freaking late 80's early 90's. You telling me they still milking by hand in Vermont in 2025?
It was cheaper exploiting illegals.
Yeah I remember it cost my dad 500,000 in the 80's to build. Who knows what the cost today would be.
And a farmer in the US would probably have to import it from more innovative countries which had to invent those machines because they had no slaves to exploit.
145 000 to 175 000 € but thats for a small one with 1 milkingstall, or rather tiny if we compare american farms and austria xD (most farms with a milkingrobit have about 40-80 cows)
My dad had over 2500 cows
i never read about usa farm but saw like 2 documentaries, i assumed you had like 500 :O
No we had twenty five hundred cows. 2,500.
Wow, that's almost 2670 cows!
Two and a half cows doesn't sound like that much.
But what do you need millicow precision for?
Find a cliff and jump, my guy. The insane shortsightedness and inability to see further than their eyelids is stunning.
He’s the type of person who says he only has two feelings.
Fuck every dairy farmer within an inch of death.