A fast packer makes a bit more money for the company pays an extra 12 cents for every box a worker packs over the quota of 14 boxes an hour. Workers work their heads off for that extra 12 cents a box. There were four foreladies at the packing house I worked at. All of them were white. Their job is to keep a close watch on all the workers to make sure they work as hard as the company wants them to.
Workers have to ask their permission to go to the bathroom when the machine is in motion.
Lunch hour is one hour, supper hour is one hour. Let's allow a worker one hour a day on transportation to work and eight hours of sleep, plus 12 hours at the plant, would make 21 hours out of 24. Workers still have to shower, cook for their families, and take care of their children. The machine is not built so workers can sit down and man it. The fruit comes on different types of conveyor belts.