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I think my garbage collectors just forfeited their Christmas tip today.
Last night I put out a bag that had some broken floor tiles in it. It was a bit heavy. I watched them tug on it, and then leave it behind because it was too heavy.
Yes, I know the rules say "not more than xxx pounds" but I always believed that the unwritten agreement was that you take care of them and they take care of you. We don't give them an annual tip for doing the bare minimum; that's what their damn paycheck is for.
Am I being unreasonable here? Do you folks still tip your garbage collectors at the end of the year?
Ours drive by in a truck. It picks up the can for them. If the can spills, you get to clean it up as they will just drive off. They dont ever get out of the truck on normal days.
They also stopped picking up \bundled' brush on big trash day without telling anyone. Now it has to be bagged.
Thu Nov 11 2021 01:39:05 PM EST from IGnatius T Foobar
Am I being unreasonable here? Do you folks still tip your garbage collectors at the end of the year?
Am I being unreasonable here? Do you folks still tip your garbage
collectors at the end of the year?
We don't have any special relation with garbage collectors that would grant a tip.
Garbage collection is under a subcontract from a subdivision of a subdivision of the, shall we say, federal government. Not to mention homes have no "personal" garbage bin. You just dump it in a given container in town and a truck shows up unseen and unheard and makes it disappear.
I think the last generation that really religiously gave holiday tips to service people as a kind of baseline standard was my grandmother's generation. It started to fall off with the boomers. Gen X very rarely tips a gardener or the mailman.
If the service is a mandatory sort - like - mailman, even gardener... a cost of living sort of thing - we generally don't tip unless service is exemplary. It almost never is.
If it is a requested service - like a car detailer - they get tips. It depends. We're not consistent about it.
I do my postal carrier. She comes to my door each day so we know her ( its not a box at the street, its more personal ). We also did to do it for our UPS guy, but they moved him to another area a few years ago and now its 'carrier of the day'.
Tue Nov 16 2021 12:13:27 AM EST from ParanoidDelusionsI think the last generation that really religiously gave holiday tips to service people as a kind of baseline standard was my grandmother's generation. It started to fall off with the boomers. Gen X very rarely tips a gardener or the mailman.
If the service is a mandatory sort - like - mailman, even gardener... a cost of living sort of thing - we generally don't tip unless service is exemplary. It almost never is.
If it is a requested service - like a car detailer - they get tips. It depends. We're not consistent about it.
A few towns have municipal garbage, but most of them around here don't. In the past you had to arrange a private contract with the garbage company, but nowadays the contract is usually maintained at the town level; basically it's town garbage but outsourced to the garbage company.
And I do mean *the* garbage company. There are a bunch of shell companies to give the illusion of competition, but around here there is *only* Suburban Carting, which is 100% mafia owned and operated.
Anyway, the service is crap; they don't even bother inverting the cans, they just pull bags out and throw them in the truck, so if there's schmutz in the bottom of the can it stays there. They throw the cans around, which on my property often means they roll down a hill into the woods from where I have to retrieve them. And they're not going the extra mile to pick up this slightly overweight bag I've had out for a week now.
My wife still wants to tip them this year, because she's a people pleaser.
So I may have to intercept an envelope and redirect it to someone who actually deserves it.
Only consolation here is they own the bins. So if they break it, they pay for a new one.
They are serialized and from what i understand tied to your home. ( not that they look. its an arm on the truck that grabs them )
Does she give you a tip when you do her? Do you do her with just the tip?
This post leaves so many questions unanswered.
Wed Nov 17 2021 18:14:56 EST from Nurb432I do my postal carrier. She comes to my door each day so we know her ( its not a box at the street, its more personal ). We also did to do it for our UPS guy, but they moved him to another area a few years ago and now its 'carrier of the day'.
Tue Nov 16 2021 12:13:27 AM EST from ParanoidDelusionsI think the last generation that really religiously gave holiday tips to service people as a kind of baseline standard was my grandmother's generation. It started to fall off with the boomers. Gen X very rarely tips a gardener or the mailman.
If the service is a mandatory sort - like - mailman, even gardener... a cost of living sort of thing - we generally don't tip unless service is exemplary. It almost never is.
If it is a requested service - like a car detailer - they get tips. It depends. We're not consistent about it.
My wife still wants to tip them this year, because she's a people
pleaser.
So I may have to intercept an envelope and redirect it to someone who
actually deserves it.
about that money you owe me...
I thought it was excellent phrasing. It entertained me, at any rate. :)
Thu Nov 18 2021 20:03:56 EST from Nurb432lol, ok, bad wording on my part :)