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Posted by Peter Rosa on Tue Mar 29 21:28:40 2005, in response to Re: Answer to the enitre worlds problems and trends: People simply hate people?, posted by RonInBayside on Tue Mar 29 19:16:20 2005. I pay a reputable landscaping company to mow my lawns and tend to my shrubs and trees. I pay by check made out to the company, not in cash, and the company is bonded and insured.The crews are 100% Spanish speakers, mostly from Mexico. Do they all have work papers? I don't know. The sales guy represents to me that they do, and I take his word for it. They use the machines safely, they have water bottles with them to drink, and they do a good job. No one else I could hire would be any different. Almost all the landscaping workers on Long Island are immigrants, mostly Mexican and Salvadoran. Landscape work might be the type of thing that serves as a relatively manageable introduction to the working world for immigrants. It doesn't require any specialized skills or English-speaking ability, and being physically demanding is not the sort of thing that Americans - most of whom consider a weekly round of cartball a killer workout - particularly enjoy. My LIRR/NYCT blog |
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