Do bin men still knock looking for money at Christmas?

Gone West · 07-12-2009 11:06PM

Stingy people!
It doesn't matter if you pay for your bins or if the county council pays for it (in which case your tax pays for it), they get paid the same either way and a tip at Christmas is deserved.

Lots of folks here saying that they would tell them to "FUuCK off".... really? Are you really so ignorant and rude that you would tell a serviceman on the extreme low end of the scale to **** off? Get a grip.
Those lads come round collecting your smelly rubbish. All day, 5 days a week. They deserve a tip at christmas FFS.

Spore · 07-12-2009 11:10PM

el judìo wrote: »

Stingy people!
It doesn't matter if you pay for your bins or if the county council pays for it (in which cash your tax pays for it), they get paid the same either way and a tip at Christmas is deserved.

Lots of folks here saying that they would tell them to "FUuCK off".... really? Are you really so ignorant and rude that you would tell a serviceman on the extreme low end of the scale to **** off? Get a grip.
Those lads come round collecting your smelly rubbish. All day, 5 days a week. They deserve a tip at christmas FFS.

party pooper

tony1kenobi · 07-12-2009 11:20PM

A mate of mine was a bin man in London a few years ago and at Christmas he went knocking on the doors for his Christmas box.

He knocks on this door and John Pertwee answers.

Mate says "Hello Mr Pertwee, I'm your binman and I've just knocked to wish you and yours a merry christmas"

Pertwee takes a moment to twig then says "oh no no I don't subscribe to that sort of thing" and closes the door.

Without missing a beat mate bends down,opens the letterbox and says "why don't you put your generous head on you c*nt!"

True story that.

sceptre · 07-12-2009 11:25PM

tony1kenobi wrote: »

Without missing a beat mate bends down,opens the letterbox and says "why don't you put your generous head on you c*nt!"

True story that.

Dangerous thing pissing off a Timelord. Even if he moonlights as a scarecrow.

InKonspikuou2 · 07-12-2009 11:27PM

rainbowdrop wrote: »

I'l be giving them a tip, and the coal man will be getting one as well. A tenner each they'll be getting!!*

I know they get their wages anyway, but feck it, they both do bloody dirty jobs imo and they deserve it. I wouldn't do what they do, and I don't think most of you here would do it either......

I wheel my bin out to the side of the path and then back in from where they left it further away. They literally wheel most 2 feet and then the truck does the rest. It's far from a dirty job these days. My hands get dirtier from reading a newspaper.

InKonspikuou2 · 07-12-2009 11:34PM

el judìo wrote: »

Stingy people!
It doesn't matter if you pay for your bins or if the county council pays for it (in which case your tax pays for it), they get paid the same either way and a tip at Christmas is deserved.

Lots of folks here saying that they would tell them to "FUuCK off".... really? Are you really so ignorant and rude that you would tell a serviceman on the extreme low end of the scale to **** off? Get a grip.
Those lads come round collecting your smelly rubbish. All day, 5 days a week. They deserve a tip at christmas FFS.

While i wouldn't tell them to fúck off i sure as fúck wouldn't be tipping them. The trucks do all the work these days. To me they have a cheek knocking to wish you a happy Christmas for the sole purpose of looking for a tip. Especially when throughout the rest of the year you don't hear shít from them and where i live anyways, the are extremely picky about what they deem to be a collectible bin. If it's too far in the garden they won't collect it. If it's been raining and the name or address got smudged, they don't seem to collect it. Same if the lid is a bit open to squeeze in an extra bag.

Also there are lots of people who provide services in difficult lines of work. Should they be tipped also if they decide to knock on the door?

phasers · 07-12-2009 11:47PM

I think doctors deserve tips more than binmen but I don't think you're allowed tip a doctor

Overature · 07-12-2009 11:50PM

i remember a couple of years ago as a kid pretending that we were out when the bin men came to the door asking for money, ****

B.E.S.T. · 07-12-2009 11:54PM

How about your Postman/woman. Anything for them?

BrokenArrows · 08-12-2009 12:03AM

havnt had a binman ever call asking for a tip. but then again if im in the house when they are collecting ill most likely be in bed and i wont be answering that door.

Last December i had a dominos delivery driver actually ask me for a tip.
I paid my credit card over the phone and he handed me the pizza when i answered the door and was still standing there.

I said i paid by credit card and his response was "ya i know, can i have a tip" no word of a lie.

I said no.

opinion guy · 08-12-2009 12:03AM

RMD wrote: »

My dad planned it perfectly last year.

A binman came up to the gaff and knocked on the door, obviously enough looking for a tip. My dad handed him two blacksacks that had been sitting in the shed for a while and smelt like ****e, swiftly closed the door before the binman could even say a word.

The bastard kicked the side of the bags, rupturing them and leaving the ****e for me and my dad to pick up while they drove off in the bin lorry.

Um what exaclty did you expect him to do ? You pretty much just pissed him off and gave him ammunition - I'm surprised it didn't end up in you post box or on top of the car

el judìo wrote: »

Stingy people!
It doesn't matter if you pay for your bins or if the county council pays for it (in which case your tax pays for it), they get paid the same either way and a tip at Christmas is deserved.

Lots of folks here saying that they would tell them to "FUuCK off".... really? Are you really so ignorant and rude that you would tell a serviceman on the extreme low end of the scale to **** off? Get a grip.
Those lads come round collecting your smelly rubbish. All day, 5 days a week. They deserve a tip at christmas FFS.

Low end of the scale ? My understanding was that binman got quite well paid.

phasers wrote: »

I think doctors deserve tips more than binmen but I don't think you're allowed tip a doctor

True. But if its a hospital doctor you want to thank you can always make a donation to the ward to buy equipment or leave something for the doctors res for the doctors in general. If its GP you can't really do that I guess.

2 stroke · 08-12-2009 12:08AM

Postman and binmen get a tip every year. I dont tip the temp postman on for christmas but the guy that calls for the rest of the year.
great service from binmen during year, no prob collecting exrta bags ect.

Super Sidious · 08-12-2009 12:10AM

el judìo wrote: »

Stingy people!
It doesn't matter if you pay for your bins or if the county council pays for it (in which case your tax pays for it), they get paid the same either way and a tip at Christmas is deserved.

Lots of folks here saying that they would tell them to "FUuCK off".... really? Are you really so ignorant and rude that you would tell a serviceman on the extreme low end of the scale to **** off? Get a grip.
Those lads come round collecting your smelly rubbish. All day, 5 days a week. They deserve a tip at christmas FFS.

You obviously havnt got a clue how much they get paid...

phasers · 08-12-2009 12:22AM

Also my postman is a jerk, doesn't arrive until 1pm and is very rude. I used to have a really good looking postman who arrived promptly at 8am, then he was replaced with this gammy looking fecker

littlefriend · 08-12-2009 12:23AM

InKonspikuou2 wrote: »

My hands get dirtier from reading a newspaper.

:rolleyes:

Sharpshooter · 08-12-2009 12:31AM

I remember my dad telling me about a mate of his who was woken by the binmen ringing the doorbell one Christmas.

He opened his bedroom window and shouted down to them asking, what's the story?

The binmen shouted back up to him " Christmas box".

"Oh grand, that's very nice of ye, just leave it on the doorstop" he says.

Shuts the window and gets back into bed.

True story.

sunnyjim · 08-12-2009 12:40AM

This year as usual, my family will be tipping the milkman, the binmen, and the postman.

Run_to_da_hills · 08-12-2009 01:12AM

Another reason we shouldn't tip binmen is because they collaborate with the use of the dreaded lidded wheelie bin.

These enclosed bins are responsible for starving our wildlife. Foxes, homeless cats and dogs around the city because they cannot reach in and get scraps of food. :mad:

CrazyRabbit · 08-12-2009 01:14AM

I'd tip them all except for the guy that drives the truck. That truck is always blocking my path. The driver must die.

But, I don't think they'll be knocking at my door due to what happened just before halloween. I was showing my 'soldier' costume to my mate and he opened the front door. The poor binman got a bit of a fright seeing a guy standing in the hallway dressed in full combats, covered in camo paint with an G3-SG1 rifle strapped across his back and an M1911 pistol holstered in his cross-draw vest. I probably shouldn't have said "You didn't see anything" to him in a rather menacing tone either.

But yeah, I'll tip them.

jenzz · 08-12-2009 01:19AM

Daddy used to bring them in for a little " paddy" as their christmas box. One year we had a bin lorry parked outside for 2 days .........

Gone West · 08-12-2009 01:55AM

flynner13 wrote: »

You obviously havnt got a clue how much they get paid...

Moot point, and ignoring my actual post.

"Low end of the scale" is what I said, not necessarily anything to do with money...
Its moreso spending all day surrounded by other peoples rubbish. obviously.

And they don't get paid "extraordinarily" well. I wouldn't work as a bin collector if they offered me triple what I get at the moment.

tech77 · 08-12-2009 08:42AM

InKonspikuou2 wrote: »

I remember years ago i opened the door one morning and it was the bin man and he told me he was going to collect the bins. I just said fair play play to ye and went back in. Fúcker woke me up on my first day off work. I didn't know that they knocked on doors looking for money at Christmas. Missed the last two years so not sure if they still do it. Surely with the price of bin tags for the year and people being broke they can't be knocking expecting a tip. Anybody here usually give to them?

Loada rubbish tbh.

Love2love · 08-12-2009 09:06AM

I thought that they weren't allowed to be tipped anymore since they brought the bin charges in??? It can be seen as a bribe??? No??

Not sure now but I know they haven't called to my mother's door since.

super_furry · 08-12-2009 09:09AM

Can't see why anyone would give them a penny.

monkeypants · 08-12-2009 10:58AM

I would tip them something, but it's rare that I'd see one. It used to be that you put out your bin on a certain day each week, but now in Fingal they have to send you a calendar to figure it out.

I don't have a milkman, but there's a lady on a bike who sticks bills through my letterbox and I want to discourage that behaviour.

arybvtcw0eolkf · 08-12-2009 11:07AM

BluesBerry wrote: »

My mother used to give the bin men a tin of roses every year without fail
When the charges and new rules came in and didnt collect her bin one week because her bin lid was not closed all the way down t(aken into account forthnightly collections and 8 people in the house) it was not a pretty sight when they knocked on her door that year

More or less the same situation here.

I'm usually a pretty charitable person, esp during the holiday season. It makes me feel good when I see other's feeling good.

But since the bin charges and new rules on what could and could not go into the bin, I was even told that it the bin handles weren't facing the road that the guys weren't obliged to turn the bin around (ffs), their tip stopped (it was usually a bottle of Paddy or a score).

I've a great postman, even my dogs love him. He gets a handsome bonus from me, great bloke altogether.

neilthefunkeone · 08-12-2009 11:20AM

If they call to my door they better have a chip and pin device!!

Ross_Mahon · 08-12-2009 11:22AM

I don't tip because society says I have to. All right, if someone deserves a tip, if they really put forth an effort, I'll give them something a little something extra. But this tipping automatically, it's for the birds. As far as I'm concerned, they're just doing their job.

Thank you Mr. Pink for your kind words of wisdom

uch · 08-12-2009 11:33AM

Miserable fúckers, you's are probably the same shítes who complain when they dont collect your old chrismas tree and the p!ssed on matress thats been in your garden for 7 months, a few quid or a bottle of whiskey goes a long way with these lads, i've often cleared my garden for twenty €25 when a skip is considerably more because they remember that I've given them a few quid at Christmas

phasers · 08-12-2009 11:42AM

I bet you're a bin man.

Do bin men still knock looking for money at Christmas?

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