Bin men

Bin men in Luton do a brilliant job come rain shine and snow,feeling guity now as diddent leave a tip :( tipped the milkman,postie,and paperboys though.

Odd how binmen earning paltry wages,do a great job often under difficult circumstances,yet my local doctors (often earning similar to the prime minister)
offer a diabolical service.

 

We have the same problem with litter, yet the council haven't even responded to my complaints (with photos)!

 

Yes. For two important reasons:

1. If they were quite, how would you know the difference between the bin men having been, and a deranged burglar stealing your rubbish?

2. If you'd got up early as usual and it was bin day, but in your half asleep state you'd forgotten it was bin day, if the bin men were quite, you would be deprived of the opportunity to go racing outside in dressing gown and slippers, with your hair still out of control on one side of your head and flat on the other, and still stinking of a night's worth of stale sweat, just to haul your overflowing bin onto the street just in the nick of time for the bin men to collect it.

 

Wow there is quite a difference in salary depending on where you live but for doing the exact same job

I hope the ones that did our bins this morning are on the lower end of the scale :D

 

I'll not hear a bad word against my GP.........

 

Got this from google,how true im not sure.

The Treasury report cites an average salary for GPs in the UK in 2003-4 of £82 000. The latest figures, for 2004-5, show that the average income of GPs, net of expenses, was £106 000, a rise of 30% in one year. For dispensing GPs the figure is even higher: they earned an average of £128 000 after expenses, a 31% rise.
In January the Independent newspaper reported that GPs' average earnings soared again last year (2005-6) to £118 000, according to estimates of the Association of Independent Specialist Medical Accountants. So in the three years from 2002-3, when NHS Information Centre data showed that GPs earnt on average £72 000, their earnings rose by a remarkable 63%.

My doctor,having booked an appointment and waiting in the surgery,my doc runs through the door to go home (his burglar alarm is sounding) appointment cancelled.
Asks for new appointment,told phone in the morning at 8.0am phone line engadged for an hour.....changed my doc for another.

 

I heard your GP is gash!

 

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Howardh - I fear that they will deserve every penny as our leaders shift the blame for the decline of the NHS onto them!!!

 

superfit guys .... try running behind a dustbin lorry .... 5 days a week, 8 hours a day in rain, sun or snow

hard work and makes aerobics instructors and the gym freaks look like micky mouse

 

Sorry, but the lazy s0ds around here jump back in the cab if it's more than 10metres walk, and don't bother when it snows!

 

Interesting, but did you notice this bit:

I don't know if I've interpreted that correctly, but I take it to mean that the sample was not very representative.

I also wonder if the high salary figures are pro-rata. I have no idea how many hours bin men work, but I've never heard of them still working at 5PM.

 

I was going to post as Shiney has
Our new start bin men are on 29k two year experience 31k and the driver sat on his bum in a big lorry 37K
All the bin men, are related, the drivers son, on bin one, the drivers uncle on lorry two etc
The chance of someone off the street landing the job is NIL

It used to be damned hard work,. lifting carrying, up and down from your door step sometimes 100 yards up a lane

Now you the owner of the rubbish take it to the kerbside, making sure it is square on to the road, handles facing out. lid tightly shut, weigh no more than 40kilo, not contain any metal, glass. paper, garden rubbish, wood
They then roll it five yards to the auto lift, and leave the empty bin on the road where it landed :-)

Start at 0500 whilst the roads are quiet for a quick round, and when round is complete, finito, back home, the eight hour shift can be done in five if they so wish

I wish I was a poor binman

Jack McH

 

Jack - you sound as cynical as me!