The difference between physical damage and psychic damage.

I worked in an office environment that regularly interacted with field workers. They would often give us grief about how easy our jobs are (being in an air conditioned office, on chairs, etc). Two of them got injured and in order to keep them earning a paycheck, and keep their sick hours, they came to help us in the office. They were supposed to be on restrictive duty for months I believe. Within two weeks they begged to go back into the field doing anything except helping us. Haven't heard any grief from them since. Haha.

I hope this email finds you well. Just to remind all employees that crying should be through as personal leave and signed off by your manager.

If you are struggling with mental health please use ai

Kind regards Hr

I wish we had a "bring your kid to work" day so I can show my child how it feels to be in four back-to-back 1-hour meetings with the most brain dead takes and people going, "Let's table that" and "I hear what you're saying and we're saying the same thing" And then everyone gets drunk at Chilis before another round of four back-to-back one hour meetings.

That's real endurance.

Hey if it makes you feel any better, most farms are corporate owned and so they get to work in hot, back breaking fields for someone else's profit instead!

Fun fact: you can have a soul sucking office job AND do farm work! Just get a horse or two!

bonus points if you have to deal with deeply toxic office politics

They'll never even make it to the office, because of all the terrifying minorities in the city who have the audacity to exist.

She looks very happy!

I was told there be goths in IT. Just fat nerds, mostly me.

Lol or you know how to use lotion?

Older gen hated sunscreen and lotion.

I have baby soft skin, as noted by male and female friends alike, despite working tons of physical jobs including driving fence posts for a summer. I'm pretty sure it's a condition called Ehlers-Danlos, in my case, but I'm not officially diagnosed, just have every symptom. Learned about it through my DNA testing, there was a gene there that was connected to it.

From Bag Balm:

Originally, it was used for only cows' udders, but farmers' wives noticed the softness of their husbands' hands, and started using the product themselves.

The heros we need

Now that's a horror story.

This is also happening less and less as farms consolidate under disadventure capitalists. I'm in my late 40s, and the town I went to highschool in was the type to have 2 weeks off at harvest and seeding time because so many kids had to go out and help on the farm.

Last year they did not have any time off for that because only one family was left actually working their farms, the rest are working them for a corp and the corp hires transient labour to do the heavy work.

Throwing hay bales gets you jacked.

Those round one are over 100 kg. What?

Why wouldn't they continue to lease out the plot and receive perpetual income?

Your great uncle used to be a farmer. Now he's a parasite on other farmers as a landlord.

You aren't bailing hay, you're baling it.

industrial operations

True for the corn and soybeans that cover vast swaths of this country, but a lot of fruits and vegetables are still very labor intensive. That labor is usually done by underpaid immigrants, who are definitely not swole, but are definitely in better shape then any of us.

Wouldn't the pioneers drive boulders?

It makes this a pure shit "meme", post.

OP should hang their head in shame.

AND you need to be a hacker!

https://tractorhacking.github.io/

Depending on the type of farming, the thing that can't be done by machinery can get ridiculously small. To my knowledge, to grow cereal for example, intensive and repetitive efforts are not needed if you have access to machines. You still have to be physically capable but i wouldnt say it's physically demanding.

Depends on the farm. In NA, if you're running a farm > 5000ac, you're probably making enough money and are busy enough managing the finances and schedules to get new equipment often enough that you don't have to fix much, or you can afford a mechanic. Things still need to be greased, and I'd challenge most of the desk jockeys here to slide under a seeder and grease and inspect 80-100 shanks every morning for 3 weeks and not complain about it. That's the job of the guy behind the wheel, usually, because they're the one to fix it in the field if it wasn't installed right. And while you're out there, shit breaks. You can shut everything down and wait for a mechanic, or you can get your ass under there and unplug the opener or replace the boots/hose.

Small farms, which today is a farm under 5k and is by far the larger amount of farms, you get to do all that yourself, and your equipment might be 30 or 40 years old, so you're fixing it a lot. You still have to be able to lift a 100lb part into your machine or implement rather than fuck around going to get another tractor to lift it in, or it just isn't going to fit where you need to lift. So you better have some upper body strength or some young prick to do it for you.

Yah, when everything is working and the GPS is engaged, all you have to do is watch for things wrong and eat the lunch you packed yourself to last all day in the first hour.

My impression is that it is definitely not as demanding as when you were plowing feilds with a team of oxen... but it is still physicall demanding. Sure, machinaty automates a lot, but that just means you are more productive and end up doing more of the labor the machine doesn't automate. Also from what I've heard, a lot of the work of modern farming is fixing and maintaining the machines that do the heavy lifting - which is also fairly taxing physical labor.

Afaik it's mostly medium-large fruits that still get harvested by hand. I knew a Norwegian guy who developed the ideal bodybuilder physique just from picking apples for a few seasons.

Corporate farms, typically not. Independent smaller farmers it is.

I work at a farm currently, today I spend a few hours picking rocks off a field after new soil had been spread there.

While most of the farming itself is done by machines, there's a lot of maintenance stuff that needs to be done by hand.

Repeating the last word of the top caption at the start of the bottom caption used to be a common ironic trope at least in certain circles, an attempt to make the meme shittier on purpose. An elegant literary device for a more civilized age...

If you're documenting this anywhere, I'd love to see the work in progress.

It's amazing what you can DIY if you're willing to put in the time and muscle! Oasis made me think of my wife's cousin''s backyard outside of Sacramento. He put in a few small shade trees, lots of overhead trellises with vines and stuff on them, and burbling water channels here and there. On hot summer days I swear it's 10 degrees cooler back there.