Seasonal Tipping.
Discussion
Have noticed a few threads recently about some of the customer care we receive from our domestic suppliers/services.
Does anybody here still tip these people at Christmas?
We have always left some beer on our last bin collection every year.
Over to you..
Does anybody here still tip these people at Christmas?
We have always left some beer on our last bin collection every year.
Over to you..
Edited by cal72 on Saturday 13th November 15:57
i am friends with a guy who works on the recycling lorry. He is always home by 2pm, no weekends, no bank holidays, nearly 20k per yr, yet seems to be under the impression that the public should be indebted to him. He was saying the other day that the tips better be good at christmas. not sure what he has done to deserve my money personally.
)taxi drivers etc etc..I tip the paperboys (yes I apparently have two of them, weekdays and weekends 
) the bin men and the postie.
As a result I never have any issues over the amount of rubbish I leave, the postie delivers nextdoor if I have packages which I often do and if I've obviously been away as I haven't picked up my post he even mentions it to the newsagent and gets my papers cancelled.
Worth every penny IMO
) the bin men and the postie.As a result I never have any issues over the amount of rubbish I leave, the postie delivers nextdoor if I have packages which I often do and if I've obviously been away as I haven't picked up my post he even mentions it to the newsagent and gets my papers cancelled.
Worth every penny IMO
The only tip my binmen would get would be to do their job properly - a bin left out in the same place (and the correct place) should be collected every week not 1 in 4 - and they wonder why people complain about the 'service' they provide........
I have not in the past tipped them or the postie (as I don't know who he is as I never see him), so don't have any connection with them.
I have not in the past tipped them or the postie (as I don't know who he is as I never see him), so don't have any connection with them.
broken biscuit said:
i am friends with a guy who works on the recycling lorry. He is always home by 2pm, no weekends, no bank holidays, nearly 20k per yr, yet seems to be under the impression that the public should be indebted to him. He was saying the other day that the tips better be good at christmas. not sure what he has done to deserve my money personally.
When i worked in the landscape services department of a local council we used to share our yard with the refuse guys. They were paid the same hours as we were, finishing at 1630 but they were ALWAYS gone by 1430....same with the mechanics. If we had a knackered bit of kit and wanted to get into into the workshop you had to get back to the yard early as the spanner monkeys were gone by 1500....again, paid to be there till 1630.Utter madness.... What really stunned me was the self rightousness of them all and their sense of not only being entitled the jobs but also their completely arrogant attitude to everything....the most common phrase in that yard was "f
k 'um" It should have been the council motto on the side of the vans...If only the ratepayers realised what a bunch of (on the whole...some guys worked hard and were decent blokes) tossers they were employing.
sleep envy said:
hence why it's been tendered out to the private sector
Will be in the very near future...the neighbouring city council have tendered theirs out and we used to see their bin men working on lanscape in the afternoons until home time 
Even though it was an inevitability so many of the mugs in the yard couldn't see it coming or even understand why it was going to happen...christ knows how they would survive in the "real world" where they'd have to work for a living.broken biscuit said:
i am friends with a guy who works on the recycling lorry. He is always home by 2pm, no weekends, no bank holidays, nearly 20k per yr, yet seems to be under the impression that the public should be indebted to him. He was saying the other day that the tips better be good at christmas. not sure what he has done to deserve my money personally.
A few months ago I was told by an exbinman they have a "round" to do & are paid 8 hours to complete it.If they finish after 6 hours they go home early still & get paid for 8 hours.
If they have a problem ( lorry breaking down) and have to work more than 8 hours to finish the round, they get overtime.
MonkeyMatt said:
They can all feck off!
Agreed. Since the postman left an unsigned £200 parcel on my doormat and the binmen only collect my rubbish once a month (I don't have that much rubbish), I'd like some sort of gift from them.Edited by ShadownINja on Saturday 13th November 18:59
We usually give the bin guys a fiver or tenner in a card. My reasoning is that if everyone did it, they'd do very well!
But last year, we gave them a couple of cases of bottled beer. They seemed really happy with it.
My attitude is just a bit of recognition that it is Xmas, and that over the year, they do a decent enough job. IN the bad snow this year, they did not make it on collection day, but did so on the saturday. I am sure they got paid for it, but bearing in mind all the Public Sector worker in my street, (3 coppers and 2 nurses) were off work from the Weds til the following Tuesday inlcusive, I figured it was good of them to go in on a Saturday!
They are decent guys, they take the odd extra bag, and for a tenner, it is worth them helping out now and then.
But last year, we gave them a couple of cases of bottled beer. They seemed really happy with it.
My attitude is just a bit of recognition that it is Xmas, and that over the year, they do a decent enough job. IN the bad snow this year, they did not make it on collection day, but did so on the saturday. I am sure they got paid for it, but bearing in mind all the Public Sector worker in my street, (3 coppers and 2 nurses) were off work from the Weds til the following Tuesday inlcusive, I figured it was good of them to go in on a Saturday!
They are decent guys, they take the odd extra bag, and for a tenner, it is worth them helping out now and then.
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