Chistmas Tips

[Less]

I find myself in a bit of a quandary, we have two different teams of bin-men calling now alternate weeks, one lot for the real rubbish and the others working hard to save the planet.

We are fast approaching Christmas, which team do I leave the tip out for if I leave it with the rubbish collectors will they make sure that it is distributed equally between themselves and the 'green team', or do I give it to the green team knowing that as they are into re-cycling I can be sure they will share it fairly with the 'rubbish team'?

Or do I take the point of view that as, every Tuesday whichever team calls my front garden always ends up knee deep in rubbish that I should use the money to make sure that I have a merrier Christmas!

 

[garinda]

Hide the tip in some rubbish put out on the wrong day. That way they'll get a nice seasonal suprise before they fine you.

 

[Neil]

The only tip I would like to give the bin men is "Look where the f*** you are reversing and stop hitting my effin wall with that stupid sized bin wagon thats causing the back to collapse!!"

 

[garinda]

Lol I think we got the message without the added treat of the photograhs of your back passage.

 

[chav1]

get an estimate for the repairs if any are needed and hand it into the council and if no joy see a solicitor

 

[Bad-Wolf]

You can tip the Bin men if you like though personally I would not pay mine in washers!

Each and every time they call they leave half of the rubbish in the street.

I can not comment on all bin men obviously, however, the one's we have in Lancaster are a load of uselss Benny's

 

[chav1]

well i dont think they deserve tips at all anymore its not as though their job is difficult or should i say any more difficult than anyone elses infact i think they have it pretty damn easy compared to binmen of the past

gone are the days when binmen physicaly lifted anything heavy

binmen used to have to lift dirty heavy bins out of bin holes or from the floor outside the back gate and heave them on their backs and tip them into the bin waggon which is worthy of a christmas tip

now all they have to do is drag a wheelie bin which has wheels to a hydrolic lift and press a button , i wouldnt even class the job as been a dirty job anymore

save your money and buy an extra pint at christmas

guess whos bins arnt getting emptied for the next 6 months lol

 

[Sara]

Have you seen how much bin men gets paid nowadays Less? Spend your money in the pub, because they don't need it.

 

[lettie]

I'm afraid that there will be no tips from me. Before my bin even gets onto the hydraulic lift, I have to get it down a very steep step and wheel it to the bottom of the back alley.....only then will the binmen empty it. I then have to retrieve it after they have gone. In my opinion it is harder work for me than for them.....

Hmmmm, I wonder how much they will tip me????

 

[SPUGGIE J]

Only 2 kinds of bins we have one for general one for garden and one for recycling.

 

[lettie]

Only 2 kinds of bins we have one for general one for garden and one for recycling.

Lol.....That's 3...

 

[SPUGGIE J]

didnt read right did it 2 for you 3 for me.

 

[Less]

didnt read right did it 2 for you 3 for me.

No, we have:-
1 Wheelie Bin
1 white bag for paper
1 blue bag for plastic
1 blue box for tins & glass
and those of with larger gardens have yet another bin for garden refuse.

Rumour also has it that we will be recycling cardboard soon but I suppose they are having difficulty deciding on the colour and material that container will be made of!

 

[janet]

I don't give out tips, people who do the job get paid a wage for what they do. Why, should the public be expected to give them more. If the wage is that bad then it's time to change jobs.

 

[chav1]

1 Wheelie Bin
1 white bag for paper
1 blue bag for plastic
1 blue box for tins & glass
and those of with larger gardens have yet another bin for garden refuse.

so if you live in a standard 2 bedroomed terrace or a flat you have to get rid of the fridge to make way for the boxes and bags or be constantly tripping over them in the back yard

 

[West Ender]

We have a wheelie bin for general rubbish, which can include garden waste, but the bin must be pushed to the edge of your property. If it's on your drive they won't empty it. Then we have a blue wheelie bin for papers and they empty that every 4th Friday - same arrangements, it must be on the pavement. If you're like me and believe in re-cycling you flippin'-well hump your glass, plastic etc. to one of the village car parks where huge bins take up at least 6 parking spaces in each and the local yobs throw lighted fag-ends in them.

I don't tip the bin men, they're doing their paid job. I do mine and nobody tips me.

 

[Acrylic-bob]

TIPS?????? I would not pay the idle, feckless, incompetants with the holes out of washers.

A year ago they decided that I would not be allowed to have a wheelie bin because it was too much like hard work for them to wheel it the seven yards to the bin wagon. Instead, I was told that I would be given eight orange bags per month for my refuse, which I would have to "present at the kerbside for collection".

Which sounds fine in principle, but this does not take into account the barely literate halfwits employed to deliver the bags. Net result - there has been no delivery of orange bags for the last three months. On pointing out this dereliction of their duty to Cannon Street, I was told that the simple solution to the problem was to ask the delivery person for some bags. On informing the insufferably smug cow on the other end of the phone that, unlike the overwhelming majority of my neighbours, I actually worked for a living and so was not home when the bin men made their collections, I was told that there was not much else they could do.

If this is an example of "thirty years of service to the community", HBC has some damned funny ideas of what "Service" entails and it is no wonder that the borough is currently languishing as 51st most deprived in the bl**dy country!

 

[chav1]

my mum has had that much hassle with the system and stuff not been collected or taken away etc she has ended up taking her rubbish to the tip each week herself using a friends car

i wont say elderly coz she can still dish out a good right hook

 

[SPUGGIE J]

My mothers seem to be full all the time and she is on her own. The way they colllect is so messed up people are filling up the bins of those who have very little in theirs.

 

[chav1]

am i right in assuming the pick up rota will be altered over xmas without any notification of when they will be like they did last year..?