Tipping workers on farms

The part time boy

Following on from the feeding contractors do people tip them ?

I never used to do it but heard of few people that tip the loader driver ?

Always felt it bit unfair that loader driver would get tipped and non of the rest of lads.

I remember when I did my 3 months placement a horse lad came to the farm to buy hay and oats I helped him load up and be tipped me .

Also couple of years ago I loaded round bails of straw for my couisen has he sold some out of a shed. The lad that had come for the bails gave me a tip .

I actally hate the whole tipping culture in general . People should be paid to do a job and u should pay for the serves



Having said all that i do tip at restaurants if i get a good serves . I will tell the taxi driver and fast food delivery drivers to keep the change . Don't think I tip anyone else


Then as for the states that just crazy you have to tip everyone or you be shot

Having said all that maybe I should be tipping lads lol

whelan2

Just had a meal on camp. Paid and 2 free pints for us. Gave a good tip last night. What goes around comes around

Mooooo

The states is different, minimum wage is very low so service industry waiters delivery guys etc would be living off tips, over here I'd have a different view, would depend on the case but would only do so occasionally. On farm I wouldn't I guess, but wouldn't have the situation for it I guess, only people here would be buying calves, or contractors but they get paid and fed, cover the pit ourselves that would be it really unless the neighbours young lad gave a hand of cattle broke out or something I'd give them a few bob alright

Limestone Cowboy

I have done it a few times. Rarely have any workers hired in but had a fella spraying stumps of hazel bushes after machine cut them a few years ago with a knapsack. 8-6 and he was a demon to work, only asked 80 a day but I gave him a hundred. I have done a bit of it on hire myself and no way would I do it for 80.

Diarmuidin

whelan2 wrote: »

Just had a meal on camp. Paid and 2 free pints for us. Gave a good tip last night. What goes around comes around

Pints of water don't count lad.

lakill Farm

Diarmuidin wrote: »

Pints of water don't count lad.

Haha. Lad. 😀

pedigree 6

Whatever about tipping.

I wonder for any farmer employers have they got toilet facilities on site?

I know all stud farms and riding centres it's a prerequisite before they get a license.

I can't see why it shouldn't be any different on a dairy or whatever farm employing people.

GrasstoMilk

pedigree 6 wrote: »

Whatever about tipping.

I wonder for any farmer employers have they got toilet facilities on site?

I know all stud farms and riding centres it's a prerequisite before they get a license.

I can't see why it shouldn't be any different on a dairy or whatever farm employing people.

Sure isn't there a slatted tank there and heaps of toilet roll up there in the parlour

whelan2

GrasstoMilk wrote: »

Sure isn't there a slatted tank there and heaps of toilet roll up there in the parlour

A dock leaf. A pet hate here is the blue roll from the dairy put down the toilet. It blocks everything up.

patsy_mccabe

pedigree 6 wrote: »

... I wonder for any farmer employers have they got toilet facilities on site?.. .

Out the back.... and mind the nettles.:D

Sam Kade

whelan2 wrote: »

A dock leaf. A pet hate here is the blue roll from the dairy put down the toilet. It blocks everything up.

Simple solution to that, go by the ditch

The part time boy

pedigree 6 wrote: »

Whatever about tipping.

I wonder for any farmer employers have they got toilet facilities on site?

I know all stud farms and riding centres it's a prerequisite before they get a license.

I can't see why it shouldn't be any different on a dairy or whatever farm employing people.

I used to have a employee and I did not . But the house was not far away if he ever wanted . I would class him a friend not a employee he would always be welcome in the house

pedigree 6

GrasstoMilk wrote: »

Sure isn't there a slatted tank there and heaps of toilet roll up there in the parlour

Instant fail on a Bord Bia audit if you're caught doing that.:D

pedigree 6

patsy_mccabe wrote: »

Out the back.... and mind the nettles.:D

Is there not legislation that if you have employees that you have to provide facilities?

I know in the retail business I think you can't employ anyone if you haven't got facilities.

The rules were brought in for stud farms and riding schools because it was the sons and daughters of doctors and judges who were attending such establishments and they had the power to bring it in force.
Farms maybe don't matter as much and it might be more the "animal" class employed on such places? So why bother?

darragh_haven

GrasstoMilk wrote: »

Sure isn't there a slatted tank there and heaps of toilet roll up there in the parlour

Thats the attitude that gives farmers a bad name as employers.

Tbf GG I'm not surf if you were joking when saying it

Waffletraktor

pedigree 6 wrote: »

Whatever about tipping.

I wonder for any farmer employers have they got toilet facilities on site?

I know all stud farms and riding centres it's a prerequisite before they get a license.

I can't see why it shouldn't be any different on a dairy or whatever farm employing people.

Fail farm assurance without a toilet and wash facilities

GrasstoMilk

darragh_haven wrote: »

Thats the attitude that gives farmers a bad name as employers.

Tbf GG I'm not surf if you were joking when saying it

Joking!

The part time boy

Waffletraktor wrote: »

Fail farm assurance without a toilet and wash facilities

If your in dairy scheme you must have hand washing facilities . But i never heard of a adutor asking where is the toilet (unless they needed to use it ) or I don't recall reading it in the book

Who2

With construction safety audits points are deducted if toilets have no toilet roll even if there's two hundred empty ones sitting beside it and a lad with a red face. Most farms with employees I've been on have toilet facilities in the yard .

paddysdream

pedigree 6 wrote: »

Whatever about tipping.

I wonder for any farmer employers have they got toilet facilities on site?

I know all stud farms and riding centres it's a prerequisite before they get a license.

I can't see why it shouldn't be any different on a dairy or whatever farm employing people.

Thats why if you look in the cab of any machine at silage you will nearly always find a well squashed roll of toilet paper.Experience is hard won and the first time a young lad has to go home with only one sock soon learns him the value of being prepared(and the value of a secluded corner that the harvester driver can't direct a good spout of grass into.

kowtow

pedigree 6 wrote: »

Is there not legislation that if you have employees that you have to provide facilities?

I know in the retail business I think you can't employ anyone if you haven't got facilities.

The rules were brought in for stud farms and riding schools because it was the sons and daughters of doctors and judges who were attending such establishments and they had the power to bring it in force.
Farms maybe don't matter as much and it might be more the "animal" class employed on such places? So why bother?

Until the more recent "artisan" derogation (not sure if Ireland has actually implemented that bit yet) it was a typical requirement that on farm food businesses, for example cheesemakers, had a separate toilet & washroom reserved for the use of food department inspectors. Depending on who you believed it was also not acceptable for the food toilets to share a sewage or septic system with the farmhouse.

I never quite understood the reasoning behind that. It was one of a suite of regulations which mandated that anything called "farmhouse cheese" must be made on the farm while simultaneously making it illegal to do so.