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Bin collectors shouting c*nt and sh*t at 6:30am

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Carrotcakefiend · 19/05/2020 06:53

We're on a street of terrace houses of mainly young families and over 65s. Our bin collection happens 6-7am on a Wednesday morning. The bin collectors do a good job and I have no problems with them talking loudly cos bin collection is never quiet anyway! But recently there's a new man, and he swears and swears at the top of his voice. This morning, he wife is a cnt apparently, and some other things are sht. It also sounded like he had a full on argument with one of the other collectors.

Aibu to ask them to stop yelling, or to mention it to the council?

I feel bad reporting someone doing a tough job, especially during the lockdown, but at the same time I feel it's really not ok to be speaking the way he does, yelling and shouting down the street. What would you do? Please help!

OP posts:
PhoneLock · 19/05/2020 13:59

I do hear the lorry sometimes. Must ask the council to get silencers for it.

Noise from the lorry or dragging bins out is unavoidable. Shouting foul language in the street at any time of the day is both avoidable and unacceptable.

Wewearpinkonwednesdays · 19/05/2020 14:00

Maybe you could volunteer to take the whole streets rubbish to the tip in your car so the bin men don't have to come? No? Stop moaning then

Ah I'll remember that the next time I'm in a cafe, or a shop, or the dentist, or the doctors, or any other public place. If the staff are all shouting and sweating at each other, It shouldn't bother me unless I want to do the job myself 😂. Idiotic response.

Dickorydockwhatthe · 19/05/2020 14:24

Op you ANBU report it if it happens again. I'd be pissed off for being woken up especially to that. It's not professional no mater what job you do especially to shout it out in public. I get pissed off when my bin men leave all the bins in front of my car because some of them are lazy bastards grrr but I can live with that and will probably curse using the the cunt word under my breathe but if they work me up shouting and effing and blinding I'd be reporting the fuckers.

Fluffybutter · 19/05/2020 14:27

Maybe you could volunteer to take the whole streets rubbish to the tip in your car so the bin men don't have to come? No? Stop moaning then.
Donut by name , Donut by nature ..

Justaboy · 19/05/2020 14:47

Now you just do NOT want to upset your dustman, as true now as it was in 1960!

Enjoy!!

Veterinari · 19/05/2020 15:12

There is enough poverty in the country at the moment without trying to get people fired

I'd suggest @Playdonut that if people don't want to lose their public-facing jobs they should behave with basic decency. Not go round screaming that their wife is a cunt at 6.30am in a residential area and expecting allowances to be made for them.

Or are these fully grown adult men completely incapable of common decency? Why not hold them responsible for their own behaviour rather than the OP?

No one would get fired if they simply did the job they are paid to do, appropriately

EstherEliza · 19/05/2020 15:40

There is enough poverty in the country at the moment without trying to get people fired

Doesn't mean employees get to drop their standards. I'm sure there's plenty of other people out of work who would happily do that job and manage not to shout profanities at the top of their voice whilst they are doing it too.

BubblyBarbara · 19/05/2020 19:59

Doesn't mean employees get to drop their standards

To be honest in these troubled times I actually do give a lot more leeway to people who have to keep working in shops or doing deliveries and wouldn’t think about grassing them up unless they were directly rude to me

LakieLady · 19/05/2020 20:10

The people saying it's fine, if a cashier at a shop dropped the word cunt or a teacher at school or a nurse on a hospital ward you'd be shocked and outraged

I shouted "Sodding fucking bollocks" in A&E once and the doctor and nurse attending both fell about laughing.

In my defence, they had just given me an incredibly painful local anaesthetic injection, prior to reducing my Colles fracture.

Mind you, I went out with an orthopaedic surgeon for a while many years ago, and he was a proper sweary fucker.

isadoradancing123 · 19/05/2020 20:32

Ffs. Get iver it, they will only be a few minutes emptying the bins, explain to your kids that its not nice language

LakieLady · 19/05/2020 20:33

I'm slightly alarmed by the idea that when I turn 65 I also turn into a shrinking violet who will clutch her pearls at the odd swear word

Fucking hell, is that what's meant to happen? I'll be 65 in August, and I've got a lot of swearing left in me yet. Anyone who says otherwise is a cunt. Grin

NachoNachoMan · 19/05/2020 20:44

Wait outside and when you see him collecting the bins next week, shout at him

"SEE YOU NEXT TUESDAY!"

Good job your bin day wasn't Wednesday as otherwise you wouldn't be able to say that Wink

AwrightDoreenTakeAFuckinDayOff · 19/05/2020 21:42

@LakieLady

I love you a little bit for that last post ye bastard Grin

biglouis · 19/05/2020 23:45

Maybe wait to see if it happens again. If its a regular happening then by all means complain but in such a manner that you cant be identified. Under no circumstances approach and tackle verbally as you may get an aggressive response. Some people can be very vindictive.

SkyesBackPack · 19/05/2020 23:56

Bloody hell, if he shit on your bin lid someone would say it’s fine. So by the same to ken go round your street shouting to Doris “Morning you fucking cunt” with a friendly wave and see how that goes down.

Where the fuck do you all live?

Yes complaint. The more people ignore shitty behaviour the more ok it becomes. He is getting paid for fucks sake. He will be giving three warnings and if he gets sacked, guess what? Someone else gets hired. The economy will not collapse. It gets rid of him, not the job.

He can come and work at Sainsbury’s where the staff gob off about their cunt of a druggie mother. Imagine that delight when your four year old asks “mummy, what is a fucking cunt?” You can giggle and say “it’s just a pet name for granny hun”

How utterly Insta worthy “ah, little Lucy learnt her first swear word today” it’s what we all aspire to right?

Playdonut · 20/05/2020 00:16

I'm very glad that I've given you all a whole day of amusement. God knows we could all use a bit of entertainment in these troubled times! I stand by my life philosophy of live and let live and I think that some of you would do well to adopt the same philiosophy!

Panpastels · 20/05/2020 00:37

I work in a council complaints department. If this isn't a one off then I see no problem with a complaint being made - no one will get sacked they would just be spoken to.

h3av3n · 20/05/2020 01:31

Seriously? You hear worse than this just by leaving the house... why should the standards be higher just because they're bin men? Reporting them would be a really really shitty and petty thing to do. Being a bin man isn't a customer service job, their job is to collect the rubbish, they're at work and are obviously going to shout, swear etc just like in any other manual job.

Timekeeper1 · 20/05/2020 05:20

To be honest I am surprised there are enough bin men on duty together to have a conversation. Where I am one man does it all, it's automated and he drives the truck, pushes a button and crane-type arms lift the bin up to the hole in the truck, empty it, and set bin back on the ground. There is only one man in the truck, driving and operating it all by himself. So I don't know how you guys have two people on at the same time, let alone more than two.

Timekeeper1 · 20/05/2020 05:21

The man doesn't even leave the truck, you can't even see him or hear him speak.

okiedokieme · 20/05/2020 05:54

Yes I would report, it's a job they are paid to do and bad language is never appropriate in customer facing jobs/in public. Bad language is a pet hate of mine as it is! If one of them got hurt and yelled an expletive fair enough but it's obvious this is just someone with a foul mouth and the c work is very offensive.

understandmenow · 20/05/2020 06:23

@Timekeeper1 there are four men each in our teams! We've four teams, food waste, recycling plastic and glass, paper and cardboard and general waste.

So how does the one man get the bin and replace it for each person? Are they all lined up for him and replaced to the same spot?

RichPetunia · 20/05/2020 06:27

Don’t beat around the bush. Phone the council and complain about the new man. You shouldn’t have to hear swearing, especially from people doing their job.

GameChange123 · 20/05/2020 06:30

It seems use of the C word in general public conversation is on the rise. It's been more noticeable for me in the past 4or 5 years. I was watching Ricky Gervais Afterlife series and h is character makes prolific use of that particular word (amongst others) without giving the plot away, he plays the role of an angry & sad man. I was quite surprised by this level of sweariness for such a programme and realised it was Netflix not BBC. Also more swear words on Radio4 and shows like Have i got news for you, so maybe it is programme commissioning that has changed so we hear the words on TV and media more now?Also due to lockdown maybe I probably notice it more! I can swear like a Sailor but there's a time and place for it. See you next Thursday! 😄

understandmenow · 20/05/2020 06:32

I'm not sure you've provided a whole days amusement @Playdonut, just a few comments ending mid afternoon.

If you posts harsh comments, you will get responses, it's a choice you make.