LOCAL BINMEN

[GAZA62]

Sitting here on my PC have watched the dustmen pull up outside my house while it was snowing lots in the air but not that much on the ground and the road completely clear they stood around for 5 mins chatting then the driver started taking photos on his tablet (I could see what was going to happen ) he then makes a phone call and heh presto they all jump back in the wagon laughing and joking a bugger off what a joke and its now blue sky and sunny no snow on the pavement what so ever.

[ben g]

Phone your local council then. No use complaining about it on here. We all know they're lazy sods

[GAZA62]

Phone your local council then. No use complaining about it on here. We all know they're lazy sods

No thanks Ben will just get passed from person to person or put on hold gonna go do my physio instead followed by a nice bacon butty It just goes to show what a little bit of snow can do in this country

[metal licker]

Never known the binmen to miss a shift up here in Cumbria,must be just you soft southern buggers

[dans6490]

I feel your frustration. I regularly go to our local council tip. One recent visit at 9am was greated by one elderly guy, really struggling to get garden waste from his car. The three “attendants” were stood smoking and drinking hot drinks. I shouted over to them, to ask if they could help the poor guy. One of them mumbled something and they proceeded to carry on with their cancer sticks. So I helped this man unload his car and then mine.

After emailing back and forth, I finally got in touch with the person responsible for the site, who was horrified also and advised that they would take necessary action etc.

Next visit to the tip and it’s packed with people and guess what, they’re all stood around doing sweet FA! How many nurses could be paid for by these useless twats?

[maxman]

You need to get in Victor Meldrew mode with the relevant council dept.Take a few photos and email them to the council,you know this will make you feel better .

[Mighty1]

Rang my local council last week asking if they could pick up old three piece suite from back garden explaining that my wife was off work with suspected heart attack and I couldn’t lift them myself I have dicky shoulders
Answer was no put them where you leave your bin to be emptied on front of house lazy t.ats don’t do owt but pull bins off drive onto side where lorry picks them up
Don’t know how elderly manage as we were told get your neighbor or a relative to carry couch round for you we’re not doing it
Geoff

[GAZA62]

Never known the binmen to miss a shift up here in Cumbria,must be just you soft southern buggers

True not use to the cold like you northern lads

I feel your frustration. I regularly go to our local council tip. One recent visit at 9am was greated by one elderly guy, really struggling to get garden waste from his car. The three “attendants” were stood smoking and drinking hot drinks. I shouted over to them, to ask if they could help the poor guy. One of them mumbled something and they proceeded to carry on with their cancer sticks. So I helped this man unload his car and then mine.

After emailing back and forth, I finally got in touch with the person responsible for the site, who was horrified also and advised that they would take necessary action etc.

Next visit to the tip and it’s packed with people and guess what, they’re all stood around doing sweet FA! How many nurses could be paid for by these useless twats?

Sounds about right seen the same at one tip I visited but have to say my local seem pretty good they do help my old mum when she visits.

You need to get in Victor Meldrew mode with the relevant council dept.Take a few photos and email them to the council,you know this will make you feel better .

I don't believe it was more of an observation of what a little snow can cause in London chaos

Rang my local council last week asking if they could pick up old three piece suite from back garden explaining that my wife was off work with suspected heart attack and I couldn’t lift them myself I have dicky shoulders
Answer was no put them where you leave your bin to be emptied on front of house lazy t.ats don’t do owt but pull bins off drive onto side where lorry picks them up
Don’t know how elderly manage as we were told get your neighbor or a relative to carry couch round for you we’re not doing it
Geoff

Never had the issue of a sofa but leave anything made of metal at the end of drive and its gone pretty quick.


Well off to do more physio with a walk to the local shops get a 6 pack for this evening that's if I can get pass the hoards of people stocking up on tinned food as advised by the press

[mcbeee]

We'll send you some Canadian bin men, when it's really snowing hard they just put on long pants.

[RustyZ4]

Got to be Honest, here in Maidstone (not sure where you are in Kent) I have never know them not collect,, even a few years back when we had quite a bit, they managed to turn up next day

[gov]

They missed us once down here on the IOW - a bit annoying as they emptied the the other 3 bins next to ours - I got the hump and emailed the Council - that night I had a phone call from the Contractors who sent a bloke out the next day to empty our one bin

At least my £2k+ in council tax is paying for something - our village has no pavements , no street lights , no bus service and CT is to be increased buy 6% this year ! .................. wouldn't live anywhere else though

[maxman]

They missed us once down here on the IOW - a bit annoying as they emptied the the other 3 bins next to ours - I got the hump and emailed the Council - that night I had a phone call from the Contractors who sent a bloke out the next day to empty our one bin

At least my £2k+ in council tax is paying for something - our village has no pavements , no street lights , no bus service and CT is to be increased buy 6% this year ! .................. wouldn't live anywhere else though

That's a lot of money for living in a penal colony.

[bluespit]

Our lot never collect all the rubbish - they spread most of it over the roads and I get to pay £2.5k for the privilege. Oh I do get a very nice street light that beams brilliant white light in a puddle direct beneath it and then plunges you in to total black out until you reach the next one 100m away. I've only ever seen plod here once in 22 years and that was after a break in next door by one of the kids school friends.

The local high school is very good. Great a blocking all the roads close by twice a day, fantastic at leaving the school bell on during the Christmas holidays and outstanding at getting nothing better to do mums to park in every street within 400m at 3.00pm every after noon so that their obese offspring don't have to walk home.

the council used to be OK at recycling but now they have such complicated rules and want to charge us £60 per year for the necessary bins most of us are just intending to dump our waste over the fence into the estate that they allowed to be built on the farmland adjacent.

mini-rant, sorry

[mcbeee]

The local high school is very good. Great a blocking all the roads close by twice a day, fantastic at leaving the school bell on during the Christmas holidays and outstanding at getting nothing better to do mums to park in every street within 400m at 3.00pm every after noon so that their obese offspring don't have to walk home.

I thought it was just over here that this happens, seems it's worldwide.

[buzyg]

Bin are great around here . But then it doesn't show either.