One day six women got sick and had to go home. I got sick three times out of the two and a half months that I worked there. It is bad to get sick for then you have to go home early and you don't get paid for the time you miss. The time-clocks they have are army clocks with 100 minutes to an hour. They pay your last hour of the day by the quarter which means that if you work 25 min. on a regular clock they pay you for 15 min.
Workers learn after a while that the company time is very precious time.
The 10 minute breaks are on company time that's why they give you 10 minutes and no more even though the California State law says 15. Any work time after 8 hours a day is overtime. Workers do not get breaks while they are working overtime. Also, the mechanic always speeds up the machine so the fruit will get packed sooner and the workers get less overtime pay. It is no joke when he does that.