Should you tip the bin man ?

kfallon · 13-12-2011 04:01PM

rokossovsky wrote: »

havent seen a "binperson" yet:rolleyes:

I didn't want to come across as sexist

flutterflye · 13-12-2011 04:16PM

I'd be more likely to tip the binman or the postman than a waiter tbh.
A waiter usually just takes your food to your table and insists on annoying you with "is everything ok?" whenever you happen to have your mouth stuffed with food - how does that deserve a tip in any way like??!

I think you should tip someone who you feel deserves a tip for whatever reason.
Say if your waiter is really efficient or is particularly helpful or something.

The same goes for anything - if you feel your binman does a particularly good job, or the guy that brings your coal, or whoever.

Even if they don't stand out as doing a wonderful job, but you are grateful that the binman clears your rubbish for you saving you the hassle of going to the dump, or if you are grateful that the postman cycles his big yellow bike about in all types of weather - then tip him.

I hate this 'you should/you shouldn't' crap, or this 'well everyone else does it' thing.
If you feel you want to tip someone - do, if not - don't. Simples.

aujopimur · 13-12-2011 04:52PM

What's a milkman ?.

Seachmall · 13-12-2011 04:53PM

aujopimur wrote: »

What's a milkman ?.

This

force eleven · 13-12-2011 05:07PM

Only if you want too. They should look on any gift received as a bonus, and not a right, as some do.

charlietheminxx · 13-12-2011 05:11PM

Ahhhh this made me think of my nana, she always tipped them at Christmas, but then bin collections were a free service at the time....

Ellis Dee · 13-12-2011 05:47PM

"Some folks give tips at Christmas
and some of them forget.
So when he picks their bins up,
he spills some on the step.
Now one old man got nasty and to the council wrote.
Next time my old man went round there,
he punched him up the throat."

From Lonnie Donegan, "My Old Man's a Dustman".:)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7GeZ3YmONw

EddyC15 · 13-12-2011 05:51PM

First we had cow tipping, now we're picking on the poor bin men. And at Christmas and everything!

arybvtcw0eolkf · 13-12-2011 05:54PM

celticbest wrote: »

Not anymore, years ago you could ask the Binman to take nearly anything & around Xmas you get a knock looking for a Tip, you got rid of your unwanted rubbish & the Binman got a few extra quid at Xmas so everyone was happy.

Now if the Lid of your Bin is open it will not be collected, so why tip?

And for this reason I stopped too.

Under Dublin Corpo I'd a great bunch of lads who'd look after me if I was stuck, now we've a bunch of good for nothing bastards with hardly a word of english between the lot of them - I'd rather blast them with piss than give them a tip.

CamperMan · 13-12-2011 05:57PM

NO.. they should be giving you a tip for giving them a job!!!

13-12-2011 05:59PM

[QUOTE=I think you should tip someone who you feel deserves a tip for whatever reason.
[/QUOTE] - Flutterflye

Yea like me.. Please remember that it's better to give than to receive this Christmas; with this in mind, I'd like to attach my bank details for your convenience...

Bank Acc No. - 579302
NSC - 201542

I am your local binman, postman, coalman, milkman, etc...

No mess!

Frank Black · 13-12-2011 06:17PM

I'll tip, but I want to make sure they declare it as taxable income.

I'm not contributing to the black economy.

Cicero · 13-12-2011 06:22PM

Bin men, along with bread men, post men and milk men were all given a few bob around Christmas time in days gone by. However, that was long before ridiculous charges came into play for waste disposal.....
These days you'd have to search to find a milk man, havennt seen a bread man in years call to the door......might give a few bob to the post man....but definitely not the waste disposal company...that day is long gone...

bitemybanger · 13-12-2011 06:31PM

I think there is alot of annomocity and jealousy toward anyone with a secure job these days.
Bin collection is somthing we pay for but a service we could not live Without in a modern world.
I choose just to give a tin of roses or similar just to say cheers.
A fiver for a tin of sweets goes a long way, even if my bin is overflowing and the lid won't close or I've an extra bag it's always collected where others might be left if they are overflowing or have an extra bag.

dan1895 · 13-12-2011 06:35PM

Ellis Dee wrote: »

"Some folks give tips at Christmas
and some of them forget.
So when he picks their bins up,
he spills some on the step.
Now one old man got nasty and to the council wrote.
Next time my old man went round there,
he punched him up the throat."

From Lonnie Donegan, "My Old Man's a Dustman".:)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7GeZ3YmONw

I hope Lonnie Donegan's old man got sacked and done for assaulting an OAP.

TwoShedsJackson · 13-12-2011 06:40PM

At €60 annual 'service charge', €6.50 to collect a black bin and €4 for a brown bin, they can pi$$ off with themselves.

The House Of Wolves · 13-12-2011 06:44PM

Binmen are very well paid, why do they need a few extra quid? Having said that, the mother is very friendly with the beán-postie and she will give her a bottle of champers or the like.

flutterflye · 13-12-2011 06:44PM

07438991 wrote: »

- Flutterflye

Yea like me.. Please remember that it's better to give than to receive this Christmas; with this in mind, I'd like to attach my bank details for your convenience...

Bank Acc No. - 579302
NSC - 201542

I am your local binman, postman, coalman, milkman, etc...

No mess!

I don't think you deserve it, sorry.

sdanseo · 13-12-2011 06:44PM

The way the binmen treat our bins, they're lucky they get paid at all.

Round here, Fingal, they:

-Won't pick it up if it's overfilled, but quite happy to let rubbish fall on the street.
-Insist it's placed out before 7am, but don't arrive until 4pm, leaving the place looking like ****e all day.
-Insist it's placed handles out, but fúck it back in front of driveways whatever way they like, so you have to stop in the middle of the road to move it so you can park in your own house.

It's a rubbish service :rolleyes:

dan1895 · 13-12-2011 06:46PM

sdeire wrote: »

It's a rubbish service :rolleyes:

I see what you did there

julias_jewel · 13-12-2011 06:51PM

My dad use to collect for the local corpo and there were 3 on the lorry. Before the recession hit they would get up to 300, even more in tips around Xmas and it was expected to be handed into office.

But they would say nothing and the 3 of them agreed to give all of it to local charities.... and divided the tins of roses between them...

But yes i would leave a tin of biscuits/roses out for them.....

tayto lover · 13-12-2011 07:00PM

Seachmall wrote: »

This

This is what a poor milkman had to put up with.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19wAAyxZhUo

working fool · 13-12-2011 07:25PM

bitemybanger wrote: »

I think there is alot of annomocity and jealousy toward anyone with a secure job these days.
Bin collection is somthing we pay for but a service we could not live Without in a modern world.
I choose just to give a tin of roses or similar just to say cheers.
A fiver for a tin of sweets goes a long way, even if my bin is overflowing and the lid won't close or I've an extra bag it's always collected where others might be left if they are overflowing or have an extra bag.

and you my friend wont be left standing on the side of the road with the massive cardboard box that your 42in flatscreen came in .

egan2020 · 13-12-2011 09:30PM

I said earlier in the thread that my mother still gives a gift to the postman, coal man and binmen. Apart from the fact that she's always done it and more than likely her parents did the same, she reckons the postman deserves it as he has to call every day mainly due to the fact that my brother is addicted to buying cheap free P&P crap from Hong Kong on ebay! If there's no answer when he knocks, he leaves the package in an open window or somewhere outside the house as opposed to leaving a note to call the local post office (5 miles away) to collect it.

Abi · 13-12-2011 09:36PM

Tip: Don't do your round in my area in the morning rush.

rasper · 13-12-2011 09:55PM

always thought those tips were bribes and payoffs for past and future favours, heres a tenner and u bend the rules for me, yes a great little nation we are

admiralofthefleet · 13-12-2011 09:59PM

any tips they get should be taxed as benifit in kind

working fool · 15-12-2011 12:09AM

i know a lot of guys in the buisness ,and i worked in it myself for a while .
yes the workers do get a few quid at christmass .
and the other workers in the yard know this ,so a lot of them try and get to work over the holidays on the trucks ,,once the bosses son even worked on one of the trucks .
the wages are pretty bad and private companys treat there staff like dirt ,
the average working day is anything from 10 to 14 hours a day .
and as refuse trucks are exempt from using tacographs those hours are fairly common.

Should you tip the bin man ?

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