[Closed] Tipping the Bin Men

They get paid don't they.

No tip for my binmen, they are the worse I've ever seen.

We don't do the binmen but the regular postie got a bottle of wine.

No tip for my binmen, they are the worse I've ever seen.

Same here. Seems like the year is spent playing 'spread the rubbish as far down the road as possible' and 'how close to the (60mph) road can we leave the bins before they get knocked over / stolen'.

Our postmen are ace. Ditto the Parcelfarce and DPD chaps. Not sure if it's because we're relatively rural but they've all be grand (and we've given them all beer)...

Don't really understand this except as a form of blackmail. The general public don't tip me, so I don't see why I should be expected to tip others.

No tip from us either. They occasionally leave a bin un-emptied with a 'too heavy' label on. Utter drivel. The same design of truck and identical mechanism on the back...and similar sized blokes seem to empty our garden waste bin that the wife can't even move.

Send me your Paypal email, DrJ, and I'll tip you a quid.

really dont know how to handle the delivery guys/girls
the good ones know me and where they can leave my stuff and forge my squiggle... but if i dont order stuff, they dont come past.

maybe a few discreet orders in the coming week and leave a small pile of pressies out with a note..... Postie, ParcelForce, DpD, Hermes are all great regulars.

In the post Corbyn utopia that is labour run rochdale council our bin men are zero hours agency staff.. never the same men/ women.. they come every day other than xmas day.. best service we ve ever had..

I thought tipping was [i]their[/i] job?

I use but haven't for a few years. I gave the coal delivery lad a £5 for a drink, he was taken back but they provide great service.

I've been offered tip over the years but don't take them, unless it's food as that is often appreciated.

"They provide a great service". That's the minimum I expect. Shouldn't be encouraging people to deliver the minimum you expect. If they do something over and above/beyond the call of duty then i might consider tipping. But rejecting a whole bin-full of recycling because of one item I may have put in there that shouldn't be there (no black plastic - who knew? Plastic of all other colours is fine, but not black!) is not an example of putting the customer first.

Our bin men are rubbish, the changed our collection day last year and the new shift are a bit militant, accused me of putting rubble in our bin, I pointed out it was cat litter and that even with my pinned wrist I could move the bin single handedly. They also specialise in missing the back of the lorry and getting rubbish over the road and the recycling boys are really good at dropping glass everywhere.

wobbliscott - Member
"They provide a great service". That's the minimum I expect. Shouldn't be encouraging people to deliver the minimum you expect. If they do something over and above/beyond the call of duty then i might consider tipping. But rejecting a whole bin-full of recycling because of one item I may have put in there that shouldn't be there (no black plastic - who knew? Plastic of all other colours is fine, but not black!) is not an example of putting the customer first

So you'd rather they take it away and stuck it in the dump because you're to lazy to sort your rubbish?

Should they do that with everybin all the way down to the bottom?

For all they kniw theres other non collected stuff in there.

Sounds like they do an excellent job.

Mr. Jek: I'm very sorry the government taxes their tips, that's ****ed up. That ain't my fault. It would seem to me that binmen are one of the many groups the government ****s in the ass on a regular basis. Look, if you ask me to sign something that says the government shouldn't do that, I'll sign it, put it to a vote, I'll vote for it, but what I won't do is play ball. And as for this non-college bullshit I got two words for that: learn to ****in' type, 'cause if you're expecting me to help out with the rent you're in for a big ****in' surprise.

I came home the other day, and my wife was in bed with one of the binnies. The rest were stood in the garden, most of them looking pleased as punch, except the driver who was pissed off and holding a pound.

My fault I suppose, as I told her to give him a quid, but **** the rest of 'em!.

IGMC.

DrJ - Member

The general public don't tip me, so I don't see why I should be expected to tip others.

I get tipped all the time, maybe you're just not very good at your job? 🙂

We have 3 different teams and they all come round the doors. Then a fourth team come round for a service that doesn't even start until next year. They were sent away 🙂

Ours wave at the kids every time they collect. Really jolly bunch. We put twenty quid in a card with some pies but then a different team came. Kids were disappointed

Zilcharini, square root of f*** all, lazy officiuos argumentative unpleasant jobsworths

the tip for my binmen is to put my ****ing bin back roughly where I left it

**** me you're a miserable bunch of tight wads. I put £20 in a card for the dustman. Same for the milkman. Not the postie's though as we seloom seem to have the same one for more than a few weeks anymore.

I get tipped all the time, maybe you're just not very good at your job?

Hmm. Maybe you're right 🙁

Tightwad? As someone above mentioned, I'll tip for service above and beyond.
For substandard service you get wee in your shoes.
The bin collection round here goes waaaaay beyond substandard.

DrJ - Member

Hmm. Maybe you're right

Try getting your customers really drunk. 😉

My Dad's gonna be disappointed at the apparent new direction for the sequel

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Tipping the binmen was appropriate back in the day when they walked round the back of the house, hefted a galvanised steel bin onto their shoulders, emptied it into the truck, then returned it. Not so much when the service consists of wheeling a bin 3 yards from the kerb to the truck then dumping it anywhere. As long as the lid is fully closed. And don't think of leaving an extra bag beside it.

When they learn not to block my driveway with the empty bin then I may consider leaving a tip.

We always used to give them a few quid, I have to say the council,bin men wouod be the same week in week out. Now it's just a constantiy changing group. Postie we still give to if we recognise the regular one.

Tip. Sod that. I'll leave them instructions on how to empty a bin and return it somewhere near the house they collected it from.

They get paid nearly 30k if they've been in the job a few years.

Tip. Sod that. I'll leave them instructions on how to empty a bin and return it somewhere near the house they collected it from.

yip, I'm fed up coming home from work finding the bin blocking the drive.

They get paid nearly 30k if they've been in the job a few years.

I bet they don't. My mate certainly doesn't and he's been with them over 30 years, he's not even on £24k

Conflicted by not knowing if our local binmen are crap/uncaring because they just are or because the contracts and schedules they work to now mean they have to be to do it in the allocated timeframe. If the former then sod them, if the latter they I feel sorry for them as it must be a tough gig and no one surely likes to do a rubbish job (unintentional pun).

Our postie however is beyond equal. Knows by name, wishes us luck when its our birthdays, brings us post going to our old address (also on his round), brings big signed for post to my work (also on his round) when there is no one in and carefully pushed the post through so it stayed caught in the flap when my wife had her back op and I had a hip op so we didn't have to lean down. We gave him a present this year because he is the nicest man I know, period.

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4. Salary

Starter: £15,000 to £19,000 (collectors)

Experienced: £20,000 (drivers)

Highly Experienced: £25,000 (managers)

These figures are a guide.

I like the way ours throw the recycling boxes back into our front garden. They're all broken.

"You can keep the tip!" said the leper to the prostitute....

Well £19k is almost £30k

Tip the binmen? Yeah I'll give them a tip, stop dumping the bins in the middle of the road after emptying them.

I really don't understand this tipping mentality for anything.

Is it not about Christmas tipping those that might have a lower income than others???

So where are my tips.

Is it not about Christmas tipping those that might have a lower income than others???

Part of the reason I tip but it's also as a thank you, that and I'm not a miserable git who thinks I don't get one so why should anyone else.

Part of the tip is being deserving of a tip, the guys at Braza get tipped for amazing food and service, the old staff at weatherspoons Bolton got tipped for great service, remembering the kids names and rembering preferences, also one night when a mate has a turn - collapsing and wandering off, following every step on CCTV, the pub/shops security radio net and liasing with the Ambo's, the security lads got a tip. And so forth

Bin men who are employed to empty wheeled bins that have been pre sorted for recycling, where you make sure the bin handle faces outward, where you try and make sure it's a reasonable weight and so on, when they either can't be arsed full stop, or when they do, leave the bin hap hazzardly often yards or hundreds of yards away from where they picked it up, usually a danger to pedestrian traffic, ill not tip.

I never really understood Xmas tipping and don't know anyone who does tip at xmas...

Drac - Moderator

that and I'm not a miserable git who thinks I don't get one so why should anyone else.

You hero you.

I know.

Ours have a sticker in their truck saying "I am voting to leave the EU", so, quite frankly, they can get to ****.

"The general public don't tip me, so I don't see why I should be expected to tip others."

Only patients who survive until Christmas can tip.

So who is in a job that [i]does[/i] get tips?

My summer "taxi" job of picking up and dropping off cyclists in the Scottish Highlands saw me with about £250 in tips last year. Often, it's the spare fiver/tenner when the customers hand me notes. Occasionally there'll be a wee surprise at the end of the journey. It's still fairly unexpected and gratefully received though. Americans are generous. Swiss not so much 🙂 British passengers only usually tip if it's a large group and they have a bit of a whip round.

I wouldn't say that Americans are generous, it's just that they have been conditioned to expect the salary of anyone in the service industry to be so low that if they do not tip at least 20% that person will not be making enough money to live...

The American federal government requires a wage of at least $2.13 per hour be paid to employees that receive at least $30 per month in tips. If wages and tips do not equal the federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour during any pay period, the employer is required to increase cash wages to compensate.

Not withstanding that many places now restrict low paid workers hours so that they don't have to provide health insurance...

^ That doesn't prove that they're not generous, it merely explains why they are generous.

I get tipped all the time, maybe you're just not very good at your job?

So your'e either a waiter or a gambler. 😉

gov.co.uk
4. Salary

Starter: £15,000 to £19,000 (collectors)

Experienced: £20,000 (drivers)

Highly Experienced: £25,000 (managers)

These figures are a guide.

For 19K, what would you rather be, a binman or a prison officer?

A prison officer starting now would eventually be on 25K. I'd rather be a bin man(ager). Prison officers don't get tipped either, just the odd 'tipoff'

I dont tip the binmen after they knocked my motorbike over with their truck and were caught putting it back up by the next door neighbour who they refused to give the name of the driver, they then tried to give him a false reg number....to be honest I didnt tip them before either, maybe I should have!

wow!

ive opted for Amstel, 30 tins of (on offer in supermarket), to be split three ways (black, green, blue - the different lorries)

They always take the correct recycling, they always put the wheelie bin back so it doesnt block the drive, they will always take anything that didnt fit in the bin if its the correct 'sort', they never accidentally knocked my car over, i dont care how they vote because unlike the politics nazis on here thats a freedom i protect.

do they need it, no
do they deserve it, IMO yes, its a tough job and not properly appreciated, particularly in terms of payment

If they're employed by the council they probably shouldn't be accepting tips.

"Well what did you get for Christmas ebygomm?"

"Well I got a letter from the council assuring me that all the local refuse collectors had been suspended without pay pending an investigation into illicit monies received." 😀

Since when is it so wrong to give a gift to someone?

Some right Ebeneezers in here.

Since when is it so wrong to give a gift to someone?

As long as it isn't booze or cash. That's bribery. In Barrhead anyway.

http://www.barrheadnews.com/news/trendingacrossscotland/14827148.Bin_men_not_allowed_to_accept_booze_or_cash_gifts_for_Christmas_from_grateful_residents/

I used to work for a local authority, and all the staff had the same policy, no gifts allowed.

It's not an unusual policy.