it is not bullshit .it was in the 80s. it has been a long time. back then they had harvesting crews. there were 15 cutters and 15 packers. and other workers that did other work in the crew. in total there were around 40 workers in a crew. then there were the loaders that loaded the boxes full of celery onto the trucks. and of course the crew foreman and his assistant. in the time I was there I only saw one woman working in the celery crews.. now it is different. I have seen videos on Youtube of celery harvesters in Salinas Ca. now they use big machines . people sit on the machine mostly women and pack the celery that the cutters cut as they move behind the machine. the cutters cut the celery and place it on a band which moves the celery to where the packers sit. when I was there the people at Bud Antle were very strict with the cutters about removing any leaves on each celery that were edible. we had to remove only leaves that were not edible. the foreman told us, the farmers invest a lot money in their celery crops and any edible leaves you remove from any celery you cut reduces the size of the celery and the farmers lose money. at the time I was there Bud Antle had seven celery crews and a training crew. they identified then with numbers. there was the 21, the 22 the 23,24,25,26 and 27. the 21 was the crew with the most seniority. I started in the training crew and ended up in 21 crew. in that kind of work there was high turn over. it was hard work. people would get older and leave, new younger workers would come in. you do not understand how this kind of work was done in the 80s.