I feel like the interviewer wasn’t explicit about the conditions. They probably phrased it gently. “Are you alright with wolf spiders finding their way onto you?”
“Naturally”, the potential employee thinks. “Wolf spiders are amongst the least dangerous spiders. I’m fine with their occasional company.”
What they should have asked was “are you capable of tolerating dozens of heavy wolf spiders motivatedly crawling over your head, torso, and arms for hours at a time without reprieve? To become a gathering ground during their apocalypse? To be their Noah’s ark?” That is a question that provokes a sincere answer.
I love spiders. I don’t want them on my face.
Also, it seems like it should be a dedicated job to get the spiders out of the bog. If you’re out there working and you’re covered in spiders, a fair number of them are going to get squished. Nobody wants that. The spiders don’t want to hang out on your body, they want to get to dry land.
Some dollar store inflatable tubes or rafts + maybe a more grippy material would provide a nice place for the spiders and limit the amount on humans
Especially if they were tethered to something on land so they could get off.
Even then, I can imagine that several people only discover that they aren’t in fact ok with dozens of large spiders climbing through their heads after it happens.
To be their Noah’s ark?
When you put it like that, it sounds rad as hell. I’m in
I’ve had the song Zombie by The Cranberries stuck in my head and because of this post about cranberries I’ve changed the line stuck in my head to this:
But you see, they’re on me, they are my employee
On my head, on my head, they are fleeing
With their fangs and their bogs, and their bogs, and their legs
On your head, on your head, they are crawling~On your head, on your he-eaya-ed,
Spi-der, spi-der, spiiiders,
What’s on your head, on your head,
Spi-der, spi-der, spi-ehya-ehya-ehya-ehya-eyoh-Love it. But:
But you see, they’re on me, they are
not my familymy employeeHow’d I miss that slam dunk! Edited it in, haha.
I think the spiders could be manageable with the right gear. Maybe something like the top half of a bee or a bug suit. If i couldn’t feel the spiders crawling on me and they can’t get on my neck or face i think i could get used to them chilling while i harvest.
Give me an old timey diving suit!
I can confirm all of this. I know a guy whose uncle grows cranberries on the Oregon Coast, and he told me this exact story.
Ok, I’d be down, I fucking love wolf spiders. Happy workers day to them, indeed.
Huntsman are nice and friendly
swampberries
Why don’t they put sone long planks leading up and out of the bog for a day or so before the harvesters go in? Give the spiders a time window to migrate to the shore…
