tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1736928270390224037.post2577165032281734174..comments2024-03-28T11:53:52.593+00:00Comments on Rachel the Gardener: Wanted: Slave(s). Formerly called Gardeners.Rachel the Gardenerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17025126472323801610noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1736928270390224037.post-68040528990374194042021-02-02T16:22:56.101+00:002021-02-02T16:22:56.101+00:00It's good that you/we/'one' can still ...It's good that you/we/'one' can still laugh at these dreadful job adverts! <br /><br />I don't know how some of these recruitment agencies can look at themselves in the mirror. In the PGG, we went through a phase of militantly contacting every agency offering a crap job for crap wages, and telling them how wrong it was in this day and age. <br /><br />Also pointing out the HUGE number of those jobs which contravened the minimum wage requirement.<br /><br />They never replied... not one of them.. one particularly strident member used to contact direct advertisers in The Lady and rant at them. <br /><br />But 'at the end of the day', as they say, the adverts continue, the attitude continues - Long Live Being Self-Employed!!!!<br />Rachel the Gardenerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17025126472323801610noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1736928270390224037.post-52045047350220998372021-02-02T12:53:41.867+00:002021-02-02T12:53:41.867+00:00Good to see this. I passed my degree in Horticultu...Good to see this. I passed my degree in Horticulture in 2000 and quickly realised that the bulk of Horticultural employment is based on serfdom as you’ve demonstrated here or the absolute bottom of the barrel vacancies posted by supposed recruitment professionals. <br />Hort’ Week is no better. Literally every tradesman I know faired far better than myself despite the education. Sadly, I would not advise anyone follow a path in Horticulture. On top of the pitiful remuneration and expectancy to doff your cap to employers, you get back breaking work in freezing winters. <br />I sometimes have a laugh at Horticulture Week and the terrible jobs on offer. Twenty years on, they STILL advertise for experienced and educated gardeners for the 20k mark. Its insulting. I switched to amenity horticulture and landscaping straight out of uni. At least I got to multi skill; there was no way I was enacting some dickensian nonsense; butler, gardener, general dogs body / slave. I don’t know how Hort’ Week has the nerve to advertise the crap they do. Doffs the cap to the gentryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07087328351729825967noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1736928270390224037.post-86281145908165098872018-09-10T17:49:24.468+01:002018-09-10T17:49:24.468+01:00So true, so true.... and even if they can find a j...So true, so true.... and even if they can find a job that is "just" gardening, there seems to be another misconceoption, that working in a beautiful garden - especially with a tied cottage - is somehow reward enough in itself: so to expect a decent wage for it is unthinkable.<br /><br />Thank the heavens that I'm self-employed!Rachel the Gardenerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17025126472323801610noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1736928270390224037.post-78039901367731409722018-09-10T09:53:08.308+01:002018-09-10T09:53:08.308+01:00This is really funny. I came across this when look...This is really funny. I came across this when looking for a companion after my husbands death recently. I am amazed but not really surprised that these people expect a one man or woman miracle worker think of the poor maid of all works after the war. Up with God clean, cook, child mind, clean and light the fires and keep them burning, shop, launder, empty the guzunders, make the beds and when half dead and the last family member has retired a last tidy up and drop on the spot in your bed often in the scullery. Sadly if people are desperate with no home to call their own they are tempted to give it a try and that is what these nobs rely on. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02042187062227154205noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1736928270390224037.post-44399151073074532832016-02-15T06:40:28.189+00:002016-02-15T06:40:28.189+00:00Hi Eddie,
Don't worry - I would not swap bein...Hi Eddie,<br /><br />Don't worry - I would not swap being self-employed ("Independent") for anything!<br /><br />As a member of the Professional Gardeners' Guild, a lot of my fellow Guild members are what I call "Estate" gardeners, and the tales they tell regularly make me gasp in disbelief. <br /><br />I suppose in fairness I should say that some of them work for very nice, considerate employers, in fabulous surroundings, with big budgets and the ability to create, and to contribute to the Estate.<br /><br />Unfortunately, not all of them, though. I hope that you are not currently under the heel of an oppressor, Eddie?Rachel the Gardenerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17025126472323801610noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1736928270390224037.post-69154713393160856302016-02-14T19:25:57.417+00:002016-02-14T19:25:57.417+00:00Be very wary of these people and their agents I sp...Be very wary of these people and their agents I speak from experience things have not changed in their world.<br />EddieGrunkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13899865449612854322noreply@blogger.com