tipping the garbage man

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mizzou

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Used to be a tradition in my family to give the garbage men like $50-100 over christmas holiday.

Anyone else do that? I seem to have lost this tradition, but I grew up in a small town.
 
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mizzou

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LTC8K6 said:
The truck picks up the cans these days.
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Ahh good point, they just drive up and use a robot arm to grab them now don't they lol

Part of me thinks it would be cool to control that thing, I bet they do some pretty good pranks with that.

The sanitation workers where I live get paid pretty decent for their job
 
sixone

sixone

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Never have, and given what a PITA my current garbage man is, it's unlikely to ever happen.

My driveway is a car and half wide. He leaves the dumpster in the gutter, dead center of the driveway, so I can't drive around it. Lazy bastage.
 
SandEagle

SandEagle

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i just tell them to keep whatever they find in the garbage. after all, one man's trash is another man's treasure.
 
LTC8K6

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sixone said:
Mine doesn't. The guy has to drag the dumpster over to the truck.
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We had those a while back. He just had to roll it to the truck. The truck still did the hard work of lifting the container.
 
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TheUnk

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Sure I'd tip him, if the city didn't already charge me extra when I have 1 bag too many and I couldn't pack it in the bin.
 
Puppies04

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I remember my dad taking the morning off work to make sure he was in to give the bin men (thats what we call them in the UK) their christmas tip. They would take the bin from the top of a 30 ft sloping drive, empty it and put it back exactly where it was by hand. Nowdays if your bin isn't on the kerbside, or if the lid is slightly open, or if it is too heavy or one of many other reasons which seem to include if they just feel like fucking with you they will not empty the bin. No more tips for Mr bin man....
 
SaDiZTiKStyLeZ

SaDiZTiKStyLeZ

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My grandparents used to give the garbage men soda pop back when they actually did hard work.
Not so much anymore now that they don't even have to work half as hard anymore.
 
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Puppies04 said:
I remember my dad taking the morning off work to make sure he was in to give the bin men (thats what we call them in the UK) their christmas tip. They would take the bin from the top of a 30 ft sloping drive, empty it and put it back exactly where it was by hand. Nowdays if your bin isn't on the kerbside, or if the lid is slightly open, or if it is too heavy or one of many other reasons which seem to include if they just feel like fucking with you they will not empty the bin. No more tips for Mr bin man....
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And you have Herby Kerbys...
 
HamburgerBoy

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They work decently hard here imo. One guy drives, one guy jumps down, runs to the bags, tosses them in quickly (even when they weigh a fair amount), then hops back on the truck (which has likely already started moving by the time the collector gets to it). Sometimes the truck just keeps driving and the second guy just runs along the sidewalk throwing bags and boxes into the back. Over the course of a day, that's pretty damn hard work imo, even if they switch off every thirty minutes or so.
 
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gorb

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They've always had the robotic arm trucks in my subdivision. If your lid isn't completely closed, they won't pick it up, either.

No tip for those guys.
 
Mixolydian

Mixolydian

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The garbage man who does my neighborhood is weighs like 400 pounds and never gets out of the truck since the truck picks up and dumps the cans by itself. SO no. I do tip my mailman though cause I do get quite a few packages every month which do require him to get out of the truck and come to the door.
 
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chusteczka

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The routes are switched in my area so the same person is never there long enough to be recognized.
 
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rommelrommel

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We used to stick a bottle of rye or a case of beer out for them but it seems like a dead tradition.
 
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sjwaste

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Who can take the trash out? The garbage man can, the garbage man can!

No. In my town, the truck picks up the cans, and only what's in the cans. We can't leave extra bags or anything else that doesn't fit in there. I have a ton of moving boxes that I need to haul to the recycling station myself as a result. And since they use the truck, my trash can often ends up down in the drainage swale.

If they still got out and did anything, I'd probably run out some cookies at Christmas or something when I saw them coming.
 
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