So totally. Like the trash pickup who didn't pick up my trash one day, so I called them and they said "the bags weren't close enough to the curb." How they knew MY bags weren't close enough to the curb out of the 10,000 houses they pick up every day is a mystery. So I told them "well, this month's payment isn't going to be close enough to the return envelope either" and hung up. I heard they were later reprimanded by the county health department for being a bunch of crybabies.
i truly hate trash pickup people. they whine when there's too many bags, or when they're too heavy (seriously, i'm 5'4" and weak, and i can lug them to the curb...), or when they aren't perfectly aligned, or when they're not in the right bags (wtf, dood? it's a TRASH BAG. i bought it at the store. it comes in a box that says TRASH BAGS on it.), or they smell funny, or any one of a number of other stupid excuses not to do their job.
I've been using the same bag for non-goey/liguid trash for years, I empty it in the bin. I've saved alot of money not buying bags, this one is so durable.
What a weird country you people live in! Over here we put garbage in old grocery bags, and then the garbagepeople just wheel the garbage cans to their trucks, hook them up or whatever, and some machinery tilts it into the truck and crushes it or whatever.
i think it's a problem with their entitlement issues. they put heavier regulations on us (though we pay for it with our taxes, and in my case, that's the ONLY service i get from the city...), and half the time they forget to pick up. i'll come home sometimes and the trash still hasn't been picked up because they've forgotten about us.
I don't think our garbage people even have to wheel the garbage bins. We line em up and their machine picks em up and empties them in the truck. I'm finding this thread fascinating, cause I've had wheelie bins for at least the last 15 years
Yeah, the ways in which america is backwards never ceases to amaze me. (Then again it probably goes both ways---I wish I had one of those churny things in the sink.)
Those are cool! My god-mother had one, but i was too young to be allowed to get too near it, I think.
It really is strange though, isn't it? The corn syrup thing is one that amazes me. I know that Australia is lucky to have so much sugar cane, but i'm constantly suprised by how much american food uses corn syrup rather than cane syrup and suuuugar!
Eh, over here it's mostly sugar beets, I think. The US would probably have cane sugar if they didn't have such a corn lobby. I don't know why we use beets, but I'd guess that as far as Norway's concerned they probably wouldn't know very well. (Cold AND shitty soil! Yeah!)
Yeah, I can totally see a trash-pickup technician with a clipboard marking down my exact address and noting that my trashbags weren't within 18 inches of the curb.
Indeed- They will cheerfully snitch on an address for 'code compliance' (i.e., tall weeds IN the back yard, too many cars in the back yard, etc), but they don't pick up the trash. Guess they are too busy snitching.
We haven't had trash pickup or lawn cutting or any other city services for 10 weeks now in my city.
They went on strike, they're on strike because the city doesn't want to give post-retirement benefits... to NEW hires.. all the existing workers get exactly the same contract as before.
If they win, it'll cost this city of 200,000 people 290 million dollars to fund the benefits for 30 years.
It's been fun, the public backlash against the union has been stronger than it has been in many many years.
excellent example of WHY so many people seem to be anti-union.
I get trying to hold onto every possible bennie with one's dying grasp, but um, aren't they trying to kill the golden goose?
and who's picking up the trash now? I dunno, if I was the union, I think I'd be afraid that the city will discover that they really don't need THEM to do the services.
I think the White and the Red Head are L1's. One of them is stupid, the other is the smartest of the Chromatics but can't keep his "fiery temper in order so never gets promoted.
No, if any of the heads is an L3 it's the Green one.....
The one which always annoyed me was bandwidth use policies which were totally unavailable to the actual customer. People would just find their connections capped, dropped, or overcharged, and could spend weeks getting nothing more from the ISP than "You used too much bandwidth", with it never being stated how much was considered too much.
Doubly rage-inducing when a plan had been advertised as unlimited. While I fully realise most ISPs couldn't handle everyone maxing out their connections 24/7, service plans which can be crippled at a moment's notice should at least not be allowed to be advertised as the complete opposite.
Gah I work DSL and this is the bane of my freaking life. People get mad cause they dont get 20m/s - wtf are we supposed to advertise it as, when the speed is completely unpredictable? I cant see anyone jumping to buy "DSL 2+ at speeds that will probably be around 3m/s if you're lucky and havent had rats nibbling yr phone cables". Fsckin...
People used to be able to figure out ma-bell's pricing systems, they'll get more sophisticated if you expected it of them. There are already more informative ways of stating available bandwidth in use for businesses.
I had a response prepared along the lines of how it would be nice to get refunds/undercharges for unused bandwidth while still having the capacity to ramp up to DSL 2+ when necessary, but then I imagined all the millions of outraged calls from people whose bills would jump when the phone company replaced the local cables, or when they bought a better home router.
Maybe just the ability to switch between levels of bandwidth as needed, without being charged administrative fees?
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Date: 2009-06-18 12:49 pm (UTC)It really is strange though, isn't it? The corn syrup thing is one that amazes me. I know that Australia is lucky to have so much sugar cane, but i'm constantly suprised by how much american food uses corn syrup rather than cane syrup and suuuugar!
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Date: 2009-06-17 05:24 pm (UTC)I love getting snap answers like that. My favorite comeback is "Oh? What gave you that impression?"
Very amusing for telemarketing, too. "Our product is great for people in your area!" "Really? What area would that be, precisely?"
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Date: 2009-06-18 12:56 pm (UTC)They went on strike, they're on strike because the city doesn't want to give post-retirement benefits... to NEW hires.. all the existing workers get exactly the same contract as before.
If they win, it'll cost this city of 200,000 people 290 million dollars to fund the benefits for 30 years.
It's been fun, the public backlash against the union has been stronger than it has been in many many years.
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Date: 2009-06-20 08:43 pm (UTC)I get trying to hold onto every possible bennie with one's dying grasp, but um, aren't they trying to kill the golden goose?
and who's picking up the trash now? I dunno, if I was the union, I think I'd be afraid that the city will discover that they really don't need THEM to do the services.
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Date: 2009-06-17 04:14 pm (UTC)No, if any of the heads is an L3 it's the Green one.....
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Date: 2009-06-17 05:12 pm (UTC)It's amazing what companies get away with using such wording...
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Date: 2009-06-17 08:56 pm (UTC)Last I checked, the speed limit on even the Superhighways here in Canada were only 120 km/h.
How would we ever know if we were getting that full 200 km/h value?
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Date: 2009-06-19 07:24 am (UTC)Doubly rage-inducing when a plan had been advertised as unlimited. While I fully realise most ISPs couldn't handle everyone maxing out their connections 24/7, service plans which can be crippled at a moment's notice should at least not be allowed to be advertised as the complete opposite.
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Date: 2009-06-19 07:34 am (UTC)Maybe just the ability to switch between levels of bandwidth as needed, without being charged administrative fees?