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re: A Tale of Two Deltas
Posted on 4/22/14 at 9:17 pm to Vols&Shaft83
Posted on 4/22/14 at 9:17 pm to Vols&Shaft83
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Posted on 4/22/14 at 9:30 pm to deltaland
Posted on 4/22/14 at 9:32 pm to Woodguy
Pretty much.
Posted on 4/22/14 at 9:35 pm to Woodguy
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So I guess it is ok for you to do drugs but not one of your employees?
Posted on 4/22/14 at 9:58 pm to Sleeping Tiger
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and an unjust policy to drug test.
Not when they have to operate machinery that requires full attention...the article says he worked for the processing plant but he was actually on the seining crew on the farm. That requires driving tractors, a boat, riding the mudline in the water, operating a hydraulic boom loading fish onto trucks under power lines.
It's safety reasons and we already got in big trouble last year with OSHA for a guy getting killed on the job and then a week later another one getting injured and airlifted to Jackson.
Posted on 4/22/14 at 10:10 pm to Woodguy
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Woodguy
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8 posts
How in the hell............?
This post was edited on 4/22/14 at 10:12 pm
Posted on 4/22/14 at 10:11 pm to Carolina Tide
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And what about the rest of them?
They aren't forced to live that way. We are hiring right now for night oxygen checkers that get paid 10.75 an hour, and needed people to operate a mowing crew.
We are having to fill most of those spots with people from South Africa and Mexico through a gov't program that lets them come here and work, provided we give them proper housing, over 9 bucks an hour, and fully furnish the house.
The reason why is the lack of applications from locals who are willing to work. They'll work for a month then quit to get back on unemployment...and we can't afford that because it takes 2 weeks to train a new person well enough to let them work on their own without injuring themselves or destroying equipment.
Posted on 4/22/14 at 10:13 pm to Carolina Tide
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Carolina Tide
I don't miss anything
Just because I don't post doesn't mean I don't read.
This post was edited on 4/22/14 at 10:21 pm
Posted on 4/22/14 at 10:13 pm to Woodguy
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So I guess it is ok for you to do drugs but not one of your employees?
I just got out of college.
I'm referring to the farm my dad manages. I didn't do them when I worked there.
I now own my own small farm that I started this spring so I can do whatever the frick I want
Posted on 4/22/14 at 10:26 pm to deltaland
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Blacks between the ages of 20 to 24 in Mississippi had an unemployment rate of about 32 percent in 2012
Are one in every three 20-24 year olds actively seeking work but are unable to find it ? That sounds skewed
This post was edited on 4/22/14 at 10:31 pm
Posted on 4/22/14 at 10:57 pm to reggierayreb
Doubtful.
Posted on 4/22/14 at 11:39 pm to deltaland
The delta is such a shite hole. I will never understand while my Delta friends in college always fapped to it. almost all have moved back.
Posted on 4/22/14 at 11:42 pm to Requiem For A Dawg
I hate everything about the delta. I really do. I promised myself I'd never go back once I finished highschool. It terrifies me to know that I'm interviewing for a job tomorrow in Greenwood. I wouldn't be able to turn it down though.
Posted on 4/22/14 at 11:50 pm to UMRealist
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It terrifies me to know that I'm interviewing for a job tomorrow in Greenwood. I wouldn't be able to turn it down though.
Greenwood is close enough to the outer edge of the Delta to get out quickly.
This post was edited on 4/22/14 at 11:50 pm
Posted on 4/22/14 at 11:53 pm to deltaland
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as the man in #6 rolling a blunt used to work for us and was fired for failing a drug test. Nobody's fault he is unemployed but his own
Well that's a lie.
As you would be the first farmer in the history of the delta's past, present, and future to drug test farm workers.
Posted on 4/23/14 at 12:03 am to Requiem For A Dawg
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Greenwood is close enough to the outer edge of the Delta to get out quickly.
Meh. Greenwood is right in the thick of the Delta.
Posted on 4/23/14 at 12:06 am to sorantable
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Greenwood is right in the thick of the Delta.
Greenwood may be very Delta as far as way of life but it is still outer edge location wise
This post was edited on 4/23/14 at 12:07 am
Posted on 4/23/14 at 12:34 am to deltaland
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We are having to fill most of those spots with people from South Africa and Mexico through a gov't program that lets them here and work, provided we give them proper housing, over 9 bucks an hour, and fully furnish the house.
Hire Bulgarian J-1 Students. They love to work and put anyone else to shame. They'll come here, work 2-3 jobs at a time in the summer and bring home more money than the Avg. Bulgarian makes in a year.
Posted on 4/23/14 at 7:16 am to UMRealist
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I'm interviewing for a job tomorrow in Greenwood. I wouldn't be able to turn it down though.
Well Greenwood is probably the best town left in the Delta. Lots of late 20s early 30s live there.
Posted on 4/23/14 at 7:54 am to Requiem For A Dawg
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The delta is such a shite hole. I will never understand while my Delta friends in college always fapped to it. almost all have moved back.
I believe it is called stockholm syndrome?
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