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<blockquote data-quote="milkmaid" data-source="post: 187247" data-attributes="member: 852"><p>LOL!! :lol: And I'd bet that's a very good way of guessing who is what (LOL) about 99% of the time. ;-)</p><p></p><p>I didn't take offense at your comments on teenage help being uncommitted, as I think you're very right. I agree with you and certainly understand your logic.</p><p></p><p>Thanks for the input on employers...how about questions to ask them and questions I should be prepared to answer? What kind of things do <em>you </em>usually ask? I haven't ever been through an actual interview - boss had known me since I was knee-high to a grasshopper (well, almost, LOL) and <em>he </em>offered <em>me </em>the job. I'd always spent lots of time down there just watching and asking questions, starting back when I was 11 or 12, and he knew me pretty well.</p><p></p><p>If you don't mind me asking - how on earth do you milk 400 cows in a double 6 milking parlor??? :lol: ;-) I was working by myself this afternoon - usual; I rarely have steady help for the entire shift - and I put 40 cows/hour through working alone. I'm working in a double 6, same as you. Things went smoothly, cows cooperated, was about average to high as far as rate of cows going through (with one person working). If I were to milk 400 cows at that rate...LOL...that'd be 10 hours, wouldn't it?! You must be doing something different.</p><p></p><p>Do you keep two employees on each shift, or more or less? As I said a moment ago, I usually work by myself for most of the shift. Sometimes I'll have boss's two sons (11 and 15) in the barn as well after they get out of school, sometimes boss will come in and work, but for the most part I work alone.</p><p></p><p>And like born2run said - <em>thanks</em> - for answering questions. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /> We'd been discussing these things in depth lately and wondering about the employer's standpoint on various topics. With the size of the dairy where I work, there isn't a herd manager, feeder, parlor manager, calf feeder, etc. There aren't a dozen employees I have to interact with - just boss's sons; I'm the only non-family employee - and boss doesn't have anyone hired for cutting hay and fixing broken equipment, etc - he is everything. So those are all positions and jobs I have no experience with seeing or learning what they consist of.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="milkmaid, post: 187247, member: 852"] LOL!! :lol: And I'd bet that's a very good way of guessing who is what (LOL) about 99% of the time. ;-) I didn't take offense at your comments on teenage help being uncommitted, as I think you're very right. I agree with you and certainly understand your logic. Thanks for the input on employers...how about questions to ask them and questions I should be prepared to answer? What kind of things do [i]you [/i]usually ask? I haven't ever been through an actual interview - boss had known me since I was knee-high to a grasshopper (well, almost, LOL) and [i]he [/i]offered [i]me [/i]the job. I'd always spent lots of time down there just watching and asking questions, starting back when I was 11 or 12, and he knew me pretty well. If you don't mind me asking - how on earth do you milk 400 cows in a double 6 milking parlor??? :lol: ;-) I was working by myself this afternoon - usual; I rarely have steady help for the entire shift - and I put 40 cows/hour through working alone. I'm working in a double 6, same as you. Things went smoothly, cows cooperated, was about average to high as far as rate of cows going through (with one person working). If I were to milk 400 cows at that rate...LOL...that'd be 10 hours, wouldn't it?! You must be doing something different. Do you keep two employees on each shift, or more or less? As I said a moment ago, I usually work by myself for most of the shift. Sometimes I'll have boss's two sons (11 and 15) in the barn as well after they get out of school, sometimes boss will come in and work, but for the most part I work alone. And like born2run said - [i]thanks[/i] - for answering questions. :) We'd been discussing these things in depth lately and wondering about the employer's standpoint on various topics. With the size of the dairy where I work, there isn't a herd manager, feeder, parlor manager, calf feeder, etc. There aren't a dozen employees I have to interact with - just boss's sons; I'm the only non-family employee - and boss doesn't have anyone hired for cutting hay and fixing broken equipment, etc - he is everything. So those are all positions and jobs I have no experience with seeing or learning what they consist of. [/QUOTE]
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