Diffucult to find helpers

[carsmarco252]

Does anyone else find it hard to find a helper / labourer? 

Im in Lincoln and cant seem to find a helper anywhere. There must be someone out there that wants a part time job but apparently not.

[Brushcutter]

Minimum wage is over £11 now and there is easier ways to earn that than Arb. 

[TheWaterworks]

@carsmarco252 how much are you paying your helpers?

[eggsarascal]

Plenty of people about who want part time work, they will want paying cash though. I can be East Anglia way at anytime, what ya paying?

[topchippyles]

7 minutes ago, eggsarascal said:

Plenty of people about who want part time work, they will want paying cash though. I can be East Anglia way at anytime, what ya paying?

Can see you working for £80 a day to i think not 😗

[eggsarascal]

9 minutes ago, topchippyles said:

Can see you working for £80 a day to i think not 😗

That’s why most can’t find anyone.

[Mick Dempsey]

On 05/06/2024 at 08:42, carsmarco252 said:

Does anyone else find it hard to find a helper / labourer? 

Im in Lincoln and cant seem to find a helper anywhere. There must be someone out there that wants a part time job but apparently not.

Well, there are plenty of jobs available in many fields and as the wages in this business are often on the low side, people tend to go to better paid, easier, more reliable sources of income.

 

Easy to say ‘just pay more’ but there’s often not much margin on tree work so it’s not as simple as that.

 

Where are you advertising? Or are you hoping someone will fall into your lap?

[eggsarascal]

11 minutes ago, Mick Dempsey said:

Well, there are plenty of jobs available in many fields and as the wages in this business are often on the low side, people tend to go to better paid, easier, more reliable sources of income.

 

Easy to say ‘just pay more’ but there’s often not much margin on tree work so it’s not as simple as that.

 

Where are you advertising? Or are you hoping someone will fall into your lap?

Not much margin Mick!? If you need good Labour you pay for it, if you can’t price jobs to cover a decent second man something is wrong.

[Vedhoggar]

I’ve got 5 people at the moment interested in casual work on an ad hoc basis, 4 of which are retired/semi-retired and one in full-time employment but works in hrs over 4 days, offer is £12/hr basic, which is the Real Living Wage outside London area (£13.15 London) however most prefer firewood or some work done in return for their time.  

[Mick Dempsey]

2 hours ago, eggsarascal said:

Not much margin Mick!? If you need good Labour you pay for it, if you can’t price jobs to cover a decent second man something is wrong.

Depends on what you consider wrong.

 

It’s just capitalism and a free market economy.