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I woofed for a year traveling around helping pick crops and didn't have to jump through this many hoops to get those jobs.
JOB REQUIREMENTS:
* Ability to stand and bend for long periods in all weather conditions
* Ability to lift 50 lbs+ repetitively throughout the day
* Ability to work in a fast paced environment
* Must have flexibility with hours
* Ability to pass drug screen and criminal background check
* Must provide references
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
* Multi-lingual
HOURS / DAYS / SCHEDULE:
40+ hours per week on a flexible (day to day ) schedule. Some days will work 6 hours and some may work 14 hours, depending on the quota for the day.
All shifts
SALARY/ WAGE/ BENEFITS:
$9.04/hour plus bonus
Agriculture work does not pay overtime, but instead they pay a bonus depending on how much weight is picked.
AND they are pre-screening at a temp service AND workforce services.
So they can speak to their coworkers who often speak many different languages.
Think safety. If people can't talk to each other, it's dangerous.
Um....so why not require English to be spoken? I am all for learning other languages but this is not Mexico. The International Language of Business is still English. Let's face it...it is a way to "weed out" Americans who are willing to do the job and then claim "no one wanted to or was qualified" for the position. It's like this in housekeeping, laundry, and other employment areas.
Because most of the workers need to be imported since most Americans willing to work for a low wage can't pass the drug tests.
I'm not making this up. When you need American to relocate temporarily to work in a different state, the ones who are willing to do it for a low wage are less likely to pass drug tests. Even the skiing industry has this problem.
So, when most of your workers are speaking multiple lanuages because those are the only workers who can pass the drug test, it becomes desirable from a safety aspect if coworkers can communicate with each other.
many of these farm workers are from foreign countries. In some parts, being able to speak spanish is essential to communicate effectively with your co-workers, in other areas its French and others its Chinesse. the spanish speaking workers are mostly thought of when they say "bi-lingual" but if yuo go to any of these farms, you will see groups of silmilar speaking people into groups for productivity.
If they are using a mostly french speaking group to harvets certain fruit, its in the company best interest for saefty, productivity, efficency and genral get along communication to be able to speak to each other. Hiring a person who can;t speak a lick of french to work with a french speaking group isn;t very smart. Same for hiring a arab speaking farm worker to be with a group of chinnese farm workers. Most people will understand this whole concept when we switch it up and say: Why do some businesses require a person to speak english? We do because thats the languae spoken at that business and hiring a person can't communicate with their supervisors or co-workers is pretty dumb.
because we are a international multinational company, every employee in the USA is required as a requirment of emplyment to be able to carry on a reasonable conversation in English & French. We don;t care if they speak Russian & French & English, English & Arab & French, Korean & French & English, or just English and French and no other language. Speaking English as a first language and Russian & Japanesse & Korean & Chinesse & Thai & Vietnamesse & Spanish and 12 other languages, if French is not one of them, you don;t have a job. It doesn;t matter if your being hired to work in NYC, Atlanta, Los Angeles, Honolulu, Seattle, Dallas or Mom's Apple Pie Heatland USA, if you can;t speak french, don;t expect to be hired.
we have come to belive that US companies speak english and should be only speaking english, but it is the business who decides the language, not he country.
I saw an advertisement for a manufacturing job here in Tennessee recently that stated applicants "must be bi-lingual" which of course means they must know Spanish.
Since it is a "requirement" that applicants be "bi-lingual" you would think that the native born Spanish speakers, having met the requirement to be "bi-lingual" would be able to communicate effectively in English.......
What the advertisement was REALLY saying is SOME workers (native born Americans) would be required to be bilingual in order to communicate with the employees that AREN'T required to be bi-lingual.
I saw an advertisement for a manufacturing job here in Tennessee recently that stated applicants "must be bi-lingual" which of course means they must know Spanish.
Since it is a "requirement" that applicants be "bi-lingual" you would think that the native born Spanish speakers, having met the requirement to be "bi-lingual" would be able to communicate effectively in English.......
What the advertisement was REALLY saying is SOME workers (native born Americans) would be required to be bilingual in order to communicate with the employees that AREN'T required to be bi-lingual.
This is the confusion, the assumption is the two languages are English and Spanish. But they may be English or Spanish and Japanesse. Or what about that plant that requires German plus english, french or spanish for some positions? If you speak german & french your hired. If you speak english and german your hired for those positions, if you speak spanish and german you can also get those positions because the staff you work with speaks german and english or german and spanish or german and french.
We assume that its english first when it could be english second. The language of business is whatever languge they choose and there is absolutely no requirment in the USA for english to be any languge they use in the workplace. People and politicians make people belive that but truth is no busines would accept governement tellingt hem what language they must communicate in as some official policy. Don't assume that english is even a requirment of any job.
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