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tipping the garbage man

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mizzou said:
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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I still do this and I never seem to get charged for extra bags and packs of broken down boxes.

I also doubled their gift this last Christmas because we have triplets in diapers right now and the smell that emanates from the cans now kills most of the flies before they even get to the bags. We keep the garbage cans away from the house now too.

BTW I replace them every other month and we tie the glad double ply bags in knots when they leave. They just fucking smell of death after a bit....
 
Yes i tip mine; they also never leave anything (like large stuff) behind. They take anything i put out, even stuff they shouldn't. A 100 bucks a year and i never have to worry. I drive through the neighborhood and laugh when i see couches, tv's, pieces of furniture left behind. But not at my house.
 
if it's a small town, same workers, then maybe yes if they go out of their way. Our guys are pretty good but it's always a bunch of different guys. And our taxes are fricken outrageous as it is. They better do a good job.
 
You guys are nice.

Me, I would fling excrement at those arsholes.

We have to use clear bag. They inspect your garbage before picking them up, if there is an item in there they don't like you're stuck with the bag for another 2 weeks, they only pick up garbage every 2 weeks, and on and on.

We have the most repressive recycling program in Canada.

:colbert:
 
Garbage men in Woodward Ia are cool too. I haven't tipped them in a while and even so, they picked up a queen-sized box spring the other day. Broken walmart book shelves, lumber scrap...they pick up all kinds of things. I gave them a bit when they took and destroyed a microwave that they weren't supposed to take. I have a busted (HOT) water heater in the basement that I should take out, but there's city cleanup day coming up soon. Everything's taken for free that day! Every now and again I give them $10 each, but nothing close to $100. Probably should this year to stay in good graces.
 
my parents used to and the mail man. now? hell no.

Though my garbage men are great. they will take anything without complaints. once i even forgot to take it to the roadside and he walked up to the house to get it. Another i was outside working on the yard and i had some kids bikes sitting next to the bins to be trashed (they were old and needed parts). he asked about them and said he could fix them to give away. he asked if he could come back latter in his truck and get them. so we moved them to the side of the house.
 
I try to tip them when I can, but they're surprisingly stable for only having 2 legs
 
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I probably should. I leave all sorts of junk out there and they've hauled it all away. We don't have any fancy trash trucks. One guy drives and two guys hanging off the back throw shit in.
 
I wouldn't mind if they were not so picky about what they picked up. Basically if its not in a trashbag that is completely inside the container, they won't bother.
They used to come by and pick up brush n stuff too, but apparently not anymore.
 
I get 2x trash pickups (W/Sat) 1x Yard waste and recycling (Fri) and one large item day (mon) every week.

If you have large items you have to call them, but it's included in the service. I pay around $220/year for all of this. The only tip i've given is I agreed they could return later to collect a bbq grill for themselves.

overall, i don't like the heavy machinery in my neighborhood so often and so early and would love to pay less money for less service; but I mostly never see them. (fuuuuuck the racket on saturday mornings).
 
jteef said:
I get 2x trash pickups (W/Sat) 1x Yard waste and recycling (Fri) and one large item day (mon) every week.

If you have large items you have to call them, but it's included in the service. I pay around $220/year for all of this. The only tip i've given is I agreed they could return later to collect a bbq grill for themselves.

overall, i don't like the heavy machinery in my neighborhood so often and so early and would love to pay less money for less service; but I mostly never see them. (fuuuuuck the racket on saturday mornings).
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sounds like your city needs to move to a zone system

split the city into 5 zones (M-F) and all trucks (trash, yard waste, recycling, large item) visit that zone on the same day so you only get bothered 1 day a week instead of 4 days a week
 
tynopik said:
I try to tip them when I can, but they're surprisingly stable for only having 2 legs
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You have to wait until they are asleep, and then creep into the sanitation yard, put your shoulder into their side, and push hard. They wake up about halfway down, it's hilarious. It pisses off the owners, though, because if they hit the ground wrong they'll get injured and have to be put down. Serves them right for sleeping standing up!
 
I'm never around when they pass so I'd never be able to catch them. I'm either at work, or sleeping.

They recently got some high tech machines now that automaticly pickup the bin, it's actually pretty cool. They announced this on april fools day and I thought it was some kind of joke, they had a video and everything. Sure enough a couple months later they rolled these new shiny trucks in. Robots really are starting to take over the world. 😛
 
Our condo association has a private sanitation company. They already shake down management pretty badly. No, I don't tip these guys.
 
I don't see why not. They provide a service to us that not many want to do. Plus it's not like they get paid great either. These are the reasons why I hear people on here why they tip so I don't see why you wouldn't.
 
My ex-wife was cheating on me with our garbageman. When I found out, his garbage company quit charging me for pickup. It was worth the trade.
 
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