Whichever genius it was that decided to deport the low paid workers we have for farms is an imbecile. Single-handedly crippling the United States food producers.
The closer you are to the truck the more work you have to do - you have to pick the watermelons in your lane, plus catch the watermelons from your neighbor.
I was just feeling bad for the last guy next to the truck. Dude's back must be made of steel. My back is shaped like an S but it definitely doesn't stand for Supergirl.
His back isn't made of steel. It's made of bone and flesh like the rest of us. He will not be doing this job for long and he will regret it when he's slightly older.
I feel like it's important to remember that just because he makes it look easy doesn't mean he should be doing it. This is inhumane, all so we can have cheaper watermelons.
Im tired of the trope that people have to work themselves to dust in order to have cheaper things. We pay people little for labor because we pay people a lot for executive operations.
It isnt a zero sum game, its just a world driven by supply and demand. These guys are willing to do the work for the price. If they werent, wages would need to be higher and prices on watermelons would be higher. Or the owner would stop paying them and use some form of machinery to do it if it were cheaper and more efficient.
Which is why every worker should be represented by a union. The workers have power in numbers.
Also, the other major factor in this equation is the salary of people in the C Suite. The corporate office rent. The HR department to manage the human resources. Its all bullshit, and if a company really wanted to cut costs and provide a decent product, they'd cut costs there.
But, this is late stage capitalism and the goal is to extract as much from human workers as possible while paying as little as possible because Ayn Rand said it's human nature.
Well maybe I'm missing something here but it seems the 3 guys closest to the truck are the ones doing the most work here. The guy in green furthest from the truck seems to only be somewhat "supervising" & only picked up 1 watermelon. Guy next to him in all blue is doing the least amount compared to the 3 guys after him & those 3 guys are all doing the same amount of work. The 3 closest to the truck are all basically doing "double" work seeing how they are all catching a watermelon from the guy before him, throwing it to the next guy while also having to pickup the watermelon in their lane & quickly throw that one as well.
Your reply is confusing - didn't I write that "The closer you are to the truck the more work you have to do"? Why do you write your reply like you are disagreeing?
And that is most likely illegal and carries with it its own fines and penalties.
In CA it’s up to $10k or a reinstatement of the job plus an hourly pay increase.
But in reality, many people with valid claims don’t file them because, as you said, they get fired and they don’t know their own rights enough to get help.
Or they fear that making waves will get them deported, which has been an increasing problem in the last few years.
Source: IAAL
Dems want to give these hardworking Americans a path to citizenship so they can no longer be taken advantage of. Corporate interests have largely been opposed to this to keep labor prices low. Do you really think Trump hires purely legal citizens to work at all of his properties?
Yup, all those rural democratic farmers, hiring immigrants to work the fields. Then those nasty City Dems try to exploit the immigrants by fighting for fare wages and healthcare. /s
I prefer immigrants working where they want to. What I don't support is abuse of the laborers. And what I don't support are conservative men screaming about "Mexicans are taking our jobs!" when their asses can't even lug a watermelon farther than 20 feet.
I see what you're saying. My problem is the abuse of these workers like the Okies in The Grapes of a Wrath.
And to be fair:
The 2010 U.S. Commission on Civil Rights briefing report titled "The Impact of Illegal Immigration on the Wages and Employment of Black Workers." reviews multiple economic studies and testimonies showing that undocumented immigrants, who are disproportionately low-skilled, increase labor supply in low-wage sectors (e.g., construction, food service, meatpacking), leading to wage suppression and job competition for native low-skilled workers, including high school dropouts and graduates.
-A 10% increase in immigrant labor supply correlates with a 4% drop in wages for low-skilled Black workers.
-Undocumented workers' rising share (4% to 7% from 2000–2007) reduced documented workers' earnings by 2.9% overall and 9.1% in leisure/hospitality.
-National Research Council (1997) estimates immigration reduces wages for the poorest 10% of workers by 5%"
(I didn't link this report, because it's in PDF form)
I'm not against anyone trying to raise their standard of living. These workers are being explored exploited by folks that don't care about their well-being, and they just want the cheapest body they can find.
He’s saying if you get rid of the good workers and replace them with shit workers that doesn’t mean the shit workers will become good workers hence this work will be a lost art!
I didn't say anything in the chain was about price, but if the low wage workers get replaced by high wage workers and the price of watermelon goes up and less people buy the watermelon and the watermelon farms go under then we also won't be seeing this practice.
I don’t think so . He has to bend over to pick them up . That may be the job I’d want least . I think he was just taking a moment when they started filming .
I think being third in line would be best . I think he’d bend down less and have to move less melons than the guys closest
A better, not completely broken immigration system. Where they get stay and have a pathway to citizenship without the fear of getting snatched off the street and sent to detention centers in the middle of the Everglades.
you can’t actually think the current system is working well?
Look at all those legal American citizens working hard for their countrymen. 🤣 seriously though how many Americans took these jobs when ice ran these guys off? I bet it is close to 0.
Ironically this is also how watermelon bins get packed out in larger stores where you need to condense six bins into three or deal with double stacked pallets. Less people in the chain and it kinda goes in reverse but same concept.
Edit: Read the comments and god damn you all never worked a supermarket job if you think this is hard work.
They're all rugby players
I was just thinking that they would kill as a volleyball team. No pun intended.
They will lose though, wouldn't be able to target the floor with the ball.
Or basketball!
They are all probabpy hiding from ICE
Go to twitter for that opinion. Reddit is mostly democrats bud.
Lmao love the assumption. You got it wrong bud
You are nothing. Don’t ever think you are more than that.
Not much of a lover are you
He's not your bud, pal
Whichever genius it was that decided to deport the low paid workers we have for farms is an imbecile. Single-handedly crippling the United States food producers.
Agreed
So you prefer using them like Okies in The Grapes of Wrath?
I prefer not paying $12 for a head of lettuce.
How about $3, instead of $2?
That would still be a lot of additional 'lettuce" for the workers.
Sure beats packing them up and sending them across the border.
The closer you are to the truck the more work you have to do - you have to pick the watermelons in your lane, plus catch the watermelons from your neighbor.
A more complete full-body workout.
Rock solid core
Cock solid roar
New Katy Perry album title.
I was just feeling bad for the last guy next to the truck. Dude's back must be made of steel. My back is shaped like an S but it definitely doesn't stand for Supergirl.
His back isn't made of steel. It's made of bone and flesh like the rest of us. He will not be doing this job for long and he will regret it when he's slightly older.
I feel like it's important to remember that just because he makes it look easy doesn't mean he should be doing it. This is inhumane, all so we can have cheaper watermelons.
Im tired of the trope that people have to work themselves to dust in order to have cheaper things. We pay people little for labor because we pay people a lot for executive operations.
It isnt a zero sum game, its just a world driven by supply and demand. These guys are willing to do the work for the price. If they werent, wages would need to be higher and prices on watermelons would be higher. Or the owner would stop paying them and use some form of machinery to do it if it were cheaper and more efficient.
Which is why every worker should be represented by a union. The workers have power in numbers.
Also, the other major factor in this equation is the salary of people in the C Suite. The corporate office rent. The HR department to manage the human resources. Its all bullshit, and if a company really wanted to cut costs and provide a decent product, they'd cut costs there.
But, this is late stage capitalism and the goal is to extract as much from human workers as possible while paying as little as possible because Ayn Rand said it's human nature.
That's not the goal though. The goal is to make profits.
Just like those workers want to take home as much cash as possible, so to do the shareholders want to squeeze every penny out of their investments
☝️🤓
This just in, man's spine not literal steel.
Dude by the truck got beaned a few times too. So not only a workout, but getting beat up too.
I just noticed that. Crazy
Well maybe I'm missing something here but it seems the 3 guys closest to the truck are the ones doing the most work here. The guy in green furthest from the truck seems to only be somewhat "supervising" & only picked up 1 watermelon. Guy next to him in all blue is doing the least amount compared to the 3 guys after him & those 3 guys are all doing the same amount of work. The 3 closest to the truck are all basically doing "double" work seeing how they are all catching a watermelon from the guy before him, throwing it to the next guy while also having to pickup the watermelon in their lane & quickly throw that one as well.
Your reply is confusing - didn't I write that "The closer you are to the truck the more work you have to do"? Why do you write your reply like you are disagreeing?
The guy bending his back is the one doing the most work - middle aged man
Shout out to these amazing farm workers. Not all heroes wear capes.
American "Christians": "Put these CRIMINALS in a concentration camp!!"
Not at all how any of us feel, but okay then.
Not how all feel but there are quite a few who do... No hate like Christian love.
https://www.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/comments/1o4an72/country_artist_bryan_andrews_calls_out_fake_maga/
You're battling against NPCs, it's futile.
I’m winded from watching the clip. Crazy to think they do this all day long
I grunt picking one out of the bin.
I threw my back out twisting weird to get one out from under my car seat a few weeks ago.
I put my back out picking up a sock a while back.
What about two?
Dude in the hat will have fucked up wrists very soon
Just watching this made my rotator cuffs hurt.
This is what workers’ comp is for. Unfortunately, the people who need it the most are the least incentivized to use it.
You'd get straight up fired if you claim worker comp injury on a farm.
Source 16 year farmer
And that is most likely illegal and carries with it its own fines and penalties. In CA it’s up to $10k or a reinstatement of the job plus an hourly pay increase.
But in reality, many people with valid claims don’t file them because, as you said, they get fired and they don’t know their own rights enough to get help. Or they fear that making waves will get them deported, which has been an increasing problem in the last few years. Source: IAAL
What if you don't live in the bad place?
They are all wearing hats
Damn... Dudes are buff AF
Heaven help any dummy that starts a fight with them at the club!
Real American heroes right here. Doing actual work and doing a damn good job.
r/USDefaultism
I mean, it's likely.
I've seen those specific boxes before.
https://www.helgilibrary.com/charts/which-country-produces-the-most-watermelons/
Of the above countries, what do you think is most likely?
Do maga want this job? 🤔 don’t think so
They wouldn't last a couple hours.
A couple??? Lol. I worked irrigation and landscaping thru school and they left at lunch and never came back.
Was your lunch less than a couple hours after you started?
They can’t even get off the couch…
did you look at the demographics of the voting blocks from the last election?
Nope. Never did but do expect others to do it at poverty wages.
Way to shoehorn politics into something unrelated.
And they act like they don't want to use these peasants as Okies like in The Grapes of Wrath.
Dems just want to import people to exploit to do it.
wtf? Sure man
We need them to do the jobs Americans won't. They will be desperate enough to do it for a wage that keeps watermelons cheap in our stores.
Dems want to give these hardworking Americans a path to citizenship so they can no longer be taken advantage of. Corporate interests have largely been opposed to this to keep labor prices low. Do you really think Trump hires purely legal citizens to work at all of his properties?
...There already is a path to citizenship
Anyone that hires an illegal should be prosecuted for it. Full stop.
"illegal" is not a noun, stop dehumanizing these people. Call them illegal immigrants or people working illegally.
If I immigrated to a country illegally I don't think it would hurt my feelings to be called an illegal immigrant
Right, because you're using "illegal" as an adjective modifying the noun "immigrant", just just calling some "an illegal".
Yup, all those rural democratic farmers, hiring immigrants to work the fields. Then those nasty City Dems try to exploit the immigrants by fighting for fare wages and healthcare. /s
Masters of their craft
Jesus you take one second too long to pick your lane watermelon and catch a full melon to the dome.
A melon to your melon lol
I had to do this in the grocery store a few times when we’d get a double stacked pallet. Much more fun to catch than to throw.
Now show me five white conservative men who would be able to do this.
You prefer your immigrants in the fields where they belong, eh?
I prefer immigrants working where they want to. What I don't support is abuse of the laborers. And what I don't support are conservative men screaming about "Mexicans are taking our jobs!" when their asses can't even lug a watermelon farther than 20 feet.
I see what you're saying. My problem is the abuse of these workers like the Okies in The Grapes of a Wrath.
And to be fair:
The 2010 U.S. Commission on Civil Rights briefing report titled "The Impact of Illegal Immigration on the Wages and Employment of Black Workers." reviews multiple economic studies and testimonies showing that undocumented immigrants, who are disproportionately low-skilled, increase labor supply in low-wage sectors (e.g., construction, food service, meatpacking), leading to wage suppression and job competition for native low-skilled workers, including high school dropouts and graduates. -A 10% increase in immigrant labor supply correlates with a 4% drop in wages for low-skilled Black workers. -Undocumented workers' rising share (4% to 7% from 2000–2007) reduced documented workers' earnings by 2.9% overall and 9.1% in leisure/hospitality. -National Research Council (1997) estimates immigration reduces wages for the poorest 10% of workers by 5%"
(I didn't link this report, because it's in PDF form)
I'm not against anyone trying to raise their standard of living. These workers are being explored exploited by folks that don't care about their well-being, and they just want the cheapest body they can find.
A soon to be lost art
Are watermelons going extinct?
Nope, sadly, just these wonderful workers in the US of A
Who will replace them? I guess Americans?
Doubt it.
Then what the fuck are you talking about.
He’s saying if you get rid of the good workers and replace them with shit workers that doesn’t mean the shit workers will become good workers hence this work will be a lost art!
Or watermelons will cost $20 each and no one will buy them.
And watermelons will cost $20....
Nothing in the chain above was about price. It was about nothing but the art of how these men work with precision and hand eye coordination.
I didn't say anything in the chain was about price, but if the low wage workers get replaced by high wage workers and the price of watermelon goes up and less people buy the watermelon and the watermelon farms go under then we also won't be seeing this practice.
People in red baseball caps.
I would die to watch an American do this work!!!! Let’s see it magats!
Again, you prefer using these guys like Okies in The Grapes of Wrath?
Yeah, they can have that job, I ain't working it
And not a single American patriot in sight.
I see you've never read The Grapes of Wrath, and are happy using these guys like Okies.
Yes, please tell us more about how immigrants are taking the jobs Americans could be doing. You know anyone who wants to do this job?
r/USDefaultism
JC the triceps burn
Sadly this will cause all sorts of long term body damage but talk about an incredible full body workout
Also great to show why most watermelons are very unripe. They are just grabbing basically everything. Id much rather have some super sweet home grown.
🎶Pump the jam! Pump it up’!!
Someone please put the Harlem globetrotter music to this?
I have trouble picking up one watermelon and they chucking those things in the air one right after the other. My goodness, pay them more money.
my wife makes me go to a farm for fun to pick blueberries, strawberries, peaches, apples, etc.
After 20 minutes in the hot Philly area sun, in July.....I am done with it.
you could offer me $350,000 per year to do this for 40 hours a week and I would tell you to jam that offer right up your butt. Nope!
My back.
I’m so grateful for these hard workers!!!
Soon they will be replaced by the National Gardners
The last guy in the background have it the easiest
I don’t think so . He has to bend over to pick them up . That may be the job I’d want least . I think he was just taking a moment when they started filming . I think being third in line would be best . I think he’d bend down less and have to move less melons than the guys closest
Watch again - they have to pick the melon in their lane AND catch.
Why do the farmhands always get to pick , when will the melons get to choose ?
“Unskilled labor”
You should see these mutherfuxkers in a kitchen.
Hate to say it but I guess I’m racist.
I managed restaurants for years.
A young blue haired white kid with piercings going for the same gig as a Latino dude with kids?
Pick the Latino every time. Eastern Europeans too. They’re amazing coworkers.
The vast majority work hard and have a great attitude. Get the job done. Joke while they’re doing it. Make fun of each other the whole time.
Pay them well. Give them the time off they need for family shit and they stick around forever
Real shit.
Damn I miss restaurant work.
Last guys not even lookin! You are expected to keep up the weak get left behind in a pile of watermelons
What wage would be required for you to endure a full 40 hour work week doing this job?
I will do that for $100K per year.
"Unskilled labor" my ass
No red caps on the field. How strange I thought maga wanted their jobs back.
Deporting this level of efficiency makes our country worse off
Absolutely.
Let’s get them a path to citizenship and get them paying taxes. A living wage.
And then we can all pay a lot more for groceries like the rest of the world.
This isn’t sarcasm. We should pay more so these cats can stay and have a better life.
This system as it stand is untenable.
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I must not have communicated well.
Let me clarify:
A better, not completely broken immigration system. Where they get stay and have a pathway to citizenship without the fear of getting snatched off the street and sent to detention centers in the middle of the Everglades.
you can’t actually think the current system is working well?
I'm with you, 100%.
Thanks for clarifying.
Have a lovely day!
I flinched with the first one.
Water brigade
GAINZ!
Oof, what a workout! I hope they work the other side too!
Why all workers lift stuff from the ground like that? They are fucking their backs.
Cause a harvester is an investment, it breaks you gotta spend money to fix it. You get hurt here well they just find someone else.
They've got such beautiful rhythm 🤙
I'd like to see China make videos of Americans doing this. 😂
Look at all those legal American citizens working hard for their countrymen. 🤣 seriously though how many Americans took these jobs when ice ran these guys off? I bet it is close to 0.
Good lord the shoulder strength on them
I live in a AG city and have seen machinery become pretty sophisticated, it’s gettin to the point that this position will b obsolete
Ironically this is also how watermelon bins get packed out in larger stores where you need to condense six bins into three or deal with double stacked pallets. Less people in the chain and it kinda goes in reverse but same concept.
Edit: Read the comments and god damn you all never worked a supermarket job if you think this is hard work.
Looks like a good workout
None of them have arm flab swinging about
Nba bound?
That first guy’s back has to give out any second now
This vid making my back hurt
Oh yes, the “unskilled workers” i keep hearing about in the news.
I want to be the guy on the far end!
My back !
has to be an easier way to do this 🥸
They would fire me by lunchtime at the watermelon farm.
Probably get to eat one of the smashed melons that hit me in the face though
Hardest working gente! Do you think any suburban American would laboriously endure this work? Nope!
When life gives you lemons, but you're dyslexic.
Easy way to get ripped.
Maybe they could go just a bit faster so they can be just a bit cheaper for me?
They should build a flying machine to harvest the melons for them
I can’t get people to fucking sweep the floor like they actually get paid and these dudes out choreographing and shit for probably less.
Those boxes are called gaylords.
Wow you have a box named after you.
What camera is he using? Or also what attachment?
The guy in the hat does the most
Did this as a boy for two summers. Hard work. Had zero issue going to sleep at night.
Volleyball setter training
I’ve seen enough, Sacramento Kings need to sign him for lob passes
Guy in t-shirt has such red arms :(
In the sun all day
I’m sure that’s a long-sleeve vest under his black tee
"Unskilled Labor", guys. Lol
Historic video - there ain’t no more farm workers in the U.S. and the farmers are all broke.
Now let's see a white guy do this.
Those hard working jobs that Americans are saying migrants stole from them.
Yeah no way this is actually how they do it
Even if you perfectly catch 99% of them
1% exploding would be a MASSIVE number