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Original poster

to demand that the dustmen comes back for my bin because they came at 6.30 this morning?

55 replies

Beelliesebub · 22/04/2008 09:52

I know if it was the milkman or the postman everyone would be saying I'm a miserable cow but when the council state on all their literature and their website that all bins are to be out for collection by 7am and then bloody well turn up at 6.30am.... is that fair???
When I rang the council they told me someone would be back to collect it within two days, so I demanded that someone come back for it today because it wasn't my fault that I missed the collection!
SO
am I being unreasonable?

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cadelaide · 22/04/2008 12:24

Oh, and Beelliesebub, YA clearly NBU.

GordonRamsay · 22/04/2008 12:27

Hi Cad,
What the hell does ya nbu mean?

cadelaide · 22/04/2008 12:29

acronym list dahling, up the top, under "useful stuff".

GordonRamsay · 22/04/2008 12:37

That's going to very useful thanks, I thought a vbac was one of those things that washes carpets.

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Beelliesebub · 22/04/2008 12:39

That's it LeDodgy..... I live about five miles from him but I have a different council.
And did you see the bit about getting fined for putting your bin out on the wrong day.....

The trouble is Shelleylou that if they'd come at the proper time it still would've been emptied today and they wouldn't have spent about another £20 of taxpayers money because they can't be f**kin arsed to do their job properly....

OMG I sound like a militant.... Soz!

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Original poster
Beelliesebub · 22/04/2008 12:41

Gordon are you in the kitchen yet and are you making anything nice and if you are can I have some......... Please

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Beelliesebub · 22/04/2008 12:42

LOL at vbac

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GordonRamsay · 22/04/2008 12:42

Always happy to cook something special up for you Beelie.

wolveschick · 22/04/2008 12:42

BB and DS, where are you. Am also just outside Wolverhampton (Perton) but am shamelefully concealing the fact that council have not yet taken back my extra wheelie bin for having a child under 2 who is now over 2 (but still in nappies so don't feel too guilty) (Wolveschick looks left and right quickly to check no one from council looking! Hope you 2 are also enjoying the scenic views and palm trees in the distance..........

shelleylou · 22/04/2008 12:52

Yes i know what you mean, I just ment if they had come on time and you put it out after 7. IFSWIM. My ex used to do efuse collection and so i got all the details. Who knew it could be sooooo intresting.

wolveschick · 22/04/2008 12:54

Sorry B-bub and DD-think I have wrong location-saw reference to W'ton and thought you meant Wolverhanpton and were joking about the sea views etc!

leosdad · 22/04/2008 12:57

The other way to stop them coming before 7am is to complain to the environmental health department re noise nuisance something will be done immediately - these guys have amazing powers.

2sugars · 22/04/2008 13:00

Do they have to be under 2? God, we have 2 wheelie bins and our dds are 8 and 9!

On the rare occasions H has forgotten to put out the bins, they've come all the way up the drive to the back gates to collect they. They're really good round here.

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Beelliesebub · 22/04/2008 13:01

Excellent.... cheers Gordon!

Hi Wolves, I live in Cumbria, on the northwest coast, about five miles from that man in the news story about the bin lid.

I know Shelleylou..... I'm good at talking rubbish... lol

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shelleylou · 22/04/2008 13:03

i was going to be silly and list rubbish then decided i better not.

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Beelliesebub · 22/04/2008 13:04

You say that Leosdad, I've just had someone ring me up from the council, apologise and assure me that they will be speaking to the contractors and it won't happen again!

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nametaken · 22/04/2008 14:20

YANBU - I expect dustmen to do the job they are paid for properly and within the correct times.

fieryfiery · 22/04/2008 14:31

YABU-What a bunch of moaners
Live in the real world. They probably got an early start so they could knock off early. Where's the harm in that?
Who do you think you are, the queen of sheba?

SmugColditz · 22/04/2008 14:34

If you put it out the night before in my area, it gets flytipped in. so yes, I would ask that they come back and empty it.

SmugColditz · 22/04/2008 14:36

The harm is that everyone else has to get up early so they can knock off early. And don't tell me to live in the bloody real world, working the bins (as it's called round here) is a step up from my own "Social and economical position". That doesn't mean I want to get up an hour before my kids do to get the bin out.

fieryfiery · 22/04/2008 14:41

There's only half an hour in it love!
So you would wake up the minute they come and run down there in your nightie?
Not me love, I'd like to be up early anyway and lokk decent when I put my rubbish out
Working the bins? You don't know the half of it

nametaken · 22/04/2008 14:46

There's only half an hour in it love!

Well, that argument works both ways. If there's only half an hour in it, why can't they come half an hour later.

I work in a day-hospital. Shall I tell my patients they all have to come in half an hour earlier so that I can go home earlier? Even though day surgeries start getting prepped at 7am. Perhaps they could come at 6.30, even if they are elderly and have an hours travelling to do first?

People should start work at the time they agreed to start work when they applied for the job.

SmugColditz · 22/04/2008 14:46

I am not getting up earlier because someone wishes to work outside the constraints of their employment contract.

What don't I know the half of? Give me a clue, fieryfiery?

SheikYerbouti · 22/04/2008 14:46

We get charged 50 quid if we put the bins out the n9ght before.

Plus cunty foxes spread rubbish all over the street, so we have to do it in the morning.

Btw Beelliesebub, tis I Intergalacticwalrus - your DS helped me out of a fix last year by accompanying my pupil for his Cello exam - How are you and your fab DS?

fieryfiery · 22/04/2008 14:58

Oooh, aren't you the school prefects
They are collecting your waste, not performing surgery. What kind of argument is that? I hope
you're not the one performing surgery dear. For wht it's worth, I have inside that knoeledge that medics do ask a patient to come in early so they can knock off early

As for your mate-outside the constraints of their employment blah blah blah
The world around us is not perfect, let it go