[primeval patriot]

Well, the kid shows up at 9.00 a.m. and by 11.30 a.m. “suddenly” remembers he had to pick up his girlfriend to go to the lake (a 30 mile drive each way).

Immediate termination. Why play games?

[CBF]

When the picking is scarce, as in, there aren’t kids lined up at the door even at $12 an hour - and you have only a day or two window of good weather to bail and pick-up before your bails get rained on in the field - you takes what you can gets.