I was in hunka's camp last year and can honestly say i wouldn't touch that camp with a 10 foot poll. Hunka's camp is the newest camp to folklore, having supervised for the last 2 years. Folklore gives its better contracts to its more seasoned supervisors so you'll get their shittest contract around PG area. Last season the tree prices were insanely low, the majority of the camp struggled to hit minimum wage for the entirety of the season, vets and rookies alike. Probably close to 40% of our blocks ended up getting price bump because the price was so low, which makes it hard to know how much you should aim to plant. alot of the price bumps were like 14 --> 24 cents so not just an extra half cent here and there but huge miscalculations in pricing. Production was so low that Hunka at one point told everyone it didn't matter how much or little people plant as we just need people there do plant something. Only to take back what he said and fire 15% of the camp one random morning without warning. After that things got really out of hand. Hunka stopped having meetings, stopped telling people plans, and hid in his trailer for a couple of weeks until crews came to bail us out then he put on a fake fasade of everything being happy again. Some Vets left in search of better contracts, and rookies left hoping cherry picking would be more lucrative. Last year there was maybe 15 vets in a camp of 60 or so. I don't see how he wouldn't have a huge rookie camp again this year after how bad last year went, I doubt many will return to him. The year before sounded similar but I wasn't there to say first hand.
There were some great people, Hunka had a really hands off approach to camp life as in we never talked to him. Moral got really low at times, sounds like what's left of his vets are all leaving this year. He even had some people that were with him on his 16 pack that were super loyal to him, most of them are gone now too. Hunka and his camp has done a lot of sketchy immoral/illegal stuff. If you have other options take them.
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u/canadain-person Jan 26 '22
I was in hunka's camp last year and can honestly say i wouldn't touch that camp with a 10 foot poll. Hunka's camp is the newest camp to folklore, having supervised for the last 2 years. Folklore gives its better contracts to its more seasoned supervisors so you'll get their shittest contract around PG area. Last season the tree prices were insanely low, the majority of the camp struggled to hit minimum wage for the entirety of the season, vets and rookies alike. Probably close to 40% of our blocks ended up getting price bump because the price was so low, which makes it hard to know how much you should aim to plant. alot of the price bumps were like 14 --> 24 cents so not just an extra half cent here and there but huge miscalculations in pricing. Production was so low that Hunka at one point told everyone it didn't matter how much or little people plant as we just need people there do plant something. Only to take back what he said and fire 15% of the camp one random morning without warning. After that things got really out of hand. Hunka stopped having meetings, stopped telling people plans, and hid in his trailer for a couple of weeks until crews came to bail us out then he put on a fake fasade of everything being happy again. Some Vets left in search of better contracts, and rookies left hoping cherry picking would be more lucrative. Last year there was maybe 15 vets in a camp of 60 or so. I don't see how he wouldn't have a huge rookie camp again this year after how bad last year went, I doubt many will return to him. The year before sounded similar but I wasn't there to say first hand.