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So, like, when I asked Celina about equality and cultural capital, she was all like, "Nah, equal opportunities suck."

She thinks that her qualifications and experience from Poland and Scotland don't get recognized, and that's a major bummer. After grinding for like four / five years in Quality Control, this company dropped a job for Produce Operator and Celina was like, "I'm in!" She thought her edu and job experience in Poland and Scotland would like totally help her score a better position, ya know? She wanted to flex her new Scotland vibes as a pack house queen, even though she had mad skills that were way beyond what was needed. She wanted to mix it up with the cultural capital she got from Poland, ya know?

She flexed that she felt hella lit because of her education, skills, and ability. But the job had gone to a local homie who was lacking major cultural clout. The company hooked him up with mad easy access to the position, fam. Celina stayed in her dead-end job for, like, years after she moved. She found out that getting jobs that match her cultural clout was way more complicated and hard than she thought. Celina spilled the tea to me: At a certain level, equality for all may be possible, like, a packer as a low-key job. Everyone can be recruited as a packer, no cap, regardless of their qualifications, knowledge, and skills. But equality ain't maintained for upper level positions, fam. The odds of someone getting promoted within the company ain't the same for everyone. Migrant workers can't flex as production or ops manager even if they got the qualifications and skills, smh. To snag those positions, you gotta be local, fam. I lowkey think there's mad more tea about the company's promo plan that's hella hidden. Celina tried to flex on her employer about how unfair their actions were, but instead she hit up the CAB for some lit drop in sessions for advice. She was like, "Keep slayin' for your rights, stayin' strong and never lose hope, sis!" Zoran was like, lowkey unsure about the whole equality and cultural capital vibes, you know? Like, he was all like:

Understanding of equality and cultural clout

There's like, legit tea from my policy interviews with NFU that lowkey suggests that some mad problems go down at some firms and some migrant workers be saying they're getting straight up racism and bullying vibes. Yet, like, the interview suggests that NFU didn't find bullies/victims were at, like, high risk of experiencing a bunch of problems of equality, diversity, and fairness. The tea from the policy interview with NFU also suggests that migrants have major roles and are hella crucial to packaging, processing, etc. Evidence of equal access to all services provided by local authorities regardless of race and religion also popped up in interviews with officials in three local authorities. Like, when we asked how migrants feel about being equal and stuff at work, most of them were like, "Nah, we don't get treated equally or given our rights and opportunities at work" (figure 4.3). One Polish dude was like, it's hella tough to score a gig that vibes with their cultural clout, ya know? Celina, Zoran and Anastazja's personal narratives lowkey spill the tea on their vibes about equality at the workplace.Once I was working beside P who is a total Scottish legend, ya know? He like, totally yelled at me, saying, `don't even talk'. Everybody knows I never talk, like, not just 'cause I wanna keep up the speed so that no time is wasted for money making by piece work, but also 'cause of my habit of less talking, ya know? So I was like: 'I ain't talking'. P said: `How dare you clap back at me? No cap, ain't nobody in this workplace gonna even think about pulling that off. Now you gotta go see my Mum (His Mum is my line supervisor). 

Pquickly hit up his mom and straight up liedagainst me, fam. 

I tried to flex. Both mom and son stopped me, fam. Fam, my coworkers totally peeped this. P straight up lied to his mom about my work and she peaced out after catching on. I was shook and scared AF about this violent sitch, so I had to go to the office to spill the tea on P, even though I knew I'd get clowned and beat up by him again next week.  Now I'm done whining about my mom and bro 'cause I know I'll get wrecked or fired. So, I'm like lowkey in a super vulnerable position rn.OMG, policy makers are totally vibing with this issue cuz they found zero tea on any drama between migrant-non-migrant relationships. No conflict of interest, fam! Fr fr, workplace drama be making it hella hard for farm migrants to keep their job, ya feel me? The beef between Paulius and his squad, Ausra and Dalena with their line supervisor, and Zoran and his boss and squad, and Grogore and Daniel with their employers was so whack that farm migrants couldn't even smash that wall of hostility and drama. The personal tea of those workers spill the deets on the kind of drama they faced with peeps and bosses. It's a total mood of employers not following the rules, smh. The beef between them got mad intense and lit, dragged on for ages, and the bosses didn't even bother to handle it properly and squash the bad vibes. OMG, like, the employers gotta be held accountable for making environments that discriminate against peeps based on their race, nationality, or ethnic background. It's not cool, fam.