Now dustmen won't take your rubbish away if... - Talk Britain

Sweetpea · #1 (**permalink**) 07-06-2008, 08:30

...wheelie bin is too heavy to pull with two fingers

Binmen have put two fingers up to common sense by issuing an astonishing warning to council-tax payers.
'If we can't pull your wheelie bin using just two fingers it is too heavy - and won't be emptied.'
Bins that need three or more fingers, they claim, constitute a health and safety risk as they could fall from the lorry while being emptied.
The edict from binmen is the latest salvo in a continuing battle between householders and bureaucracy.
It comes only days after the Daily Mail reported how widowed pensioner June Kay, 79, had been told to drag a 360-litre wheelie bin more than half a mile down a steep hill if she wanted it emptied.
The two-finger policy was discovered by Katie Shergold in the historic market town of Warminster, Wiltshire.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1024714/Now-dustmen-wont-rubbish-away-wheelie-bin-heavy-pull-fingers.html

OK, we get fined if we don't recycle enough. But if the bin gets heavy, the namby pamby, tu tu wearing, faggot faced 'dustmen', won't take it?

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She watched in disbelief as binmen stuck a 'too heavy to move' sticker on her bin of grass cuttings, just 6ft from their lorry.

poppy · #2 (**permalink**) 07-06-2008, 08:40

What I dont get is, bin men do not empty wheelie bins, a thing on the back of the truck does it automatically, all they do is wheel them.
I know which two fingers I would show them

Haqa · #3 (**permalink**) 07-06-2008, 08:44

Lazy, arrogant assholes - and so are the bin men they employ...

H.

terrywit · #4 (**permalink**) 07-06-2008, 10:11

the day I get a sticker on my bin that they won't empty it, the following day a council employee will be picking the contains of the steps of the town hall.

#5 (**permalink**) 07-06-2008, 10:34

A winter of discontent anyone?

Binmen have been at this for a few years now. Wanting to do less and less for more and more. Councils actually have a duty of care on this issue, so Terry is bang on the money when he says take the fight to them. It is the Councils who have the contracts with the 'refuse' collectors if you'll pardon the wordplay, not you as the taxpayer, so if they don't lift your garbage, it's a problem that the shitheads at townhall have to sort. They should either fuck the contractor off for breach and get another one in who is prepared to honour their contract or sort them out either way. Problem here is corruption - too many brown envelopes to win the tenders for waste collection means the council will not get rid of underperforming contractors, and they're awarding them 5-10 year renewals instead of annual competitive tenders.

Sweetpea · #6 (**permalink**) 07-06-2008, 11:45

Binmen are now complaining that they are being abused on the job (leave it). Are they seriously wondering why?

#7 (**permalink**) 07-06-2008, 11:47

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Originally Posted by Sweetpea

Binmen are now complaining that they are being abused on the job (leave it). Are they seriously wondering why?

Again, something their Unions have to take up with their management and take to the council as a contractual issue imho. But then they'd have to condier the cause wouldn't they?