Would you complain tot he council about this?

[memoo]

We haven't had our rubbish collected since before xmas. I know its not the end of the world and DH and I are quite capable of taking it to our local tip ourselves which we have done and we have also taken the elderly ladie's who lives across the road from us.

There is a man who lives up from the street from us who is a bin man. I have just seen him and 2 collagues, all dressed in their work uniforms, pull up in a council van (not a big lorry) and taken all his own bin bags from his garden! TBh I think he is taking the piss big time!!

This is purely a matter of principle as we have been able to dispose of our own waste but there are many people who are still stuck with theirs.

I think this neighbour is taking advantage of his position!!

YANBU

that should be not a bin lorry

YANBU to want to complain but I doubt you'll get very far with your complaint. I think the whole country is in the same boat what with the bank holidays and then all the snow and ice.

Not much more you can do other you are already doing.

I think you should complain and mention to them what he is doing, surely its abusing his position to collect his own waste if its not on his route.

It is annoying though isn't it? We haven't had ours collected since before Christmas either - which I could sort of understand because the road to our estate was like an ice rink at times. However, this week it wasn't slippy anymore just slushy. Everyone else managed to drive up and down it OK - except the bin lorries of course.

YANBU, our recycling bins have just been emptied this morning and the binmen dropped a load of stuff from ours on the road and just left it! It is now lying in the slush and I'm just about to get rubber gloved up to go put it back in my bl**y bin!

Yes its a bit of a pain for you but imagine being a bin man and having to pick up other peoples often smelly, poorly packed rubbish all day, every day?

Everyone has perks in their job this is his!

I would make friends with him if I were you!

Its not that fact that they have not collected our rubbish that is annoying me its the fact that this binman used his council van and work colleagues to collect his own rubbish.

YANBU
Hope they at least give you an idea of when you'll get the bins collected.
We have had thick snow and an ice rink of a road but still had our bins collected.

As I said thats the perk of his rather unpleasant job. I probably would be irritated by this but I wouldn't blame him for doing it.

The council have now set up 'collection points' where we can take our rubbish to them. So they won't come down our streets but expect us to break our necks getting to them!

steelfairy, I guess there can't be many other perks

Memoo - was just about to start an AIBU about the collection points and then I saw this thread. YANBU.

I can't help but think that the 'collection points' are an excuse for the councils not to catch up with their rounds.

I phoned the council today to ask when we could expect our bins to be picked up, and they said they didn't know and to just leave them out. Our road looks really terrible. There are bags of rubbish everywhere. Yuck!

And we have the fortnightly collections, so we have had our bins collected once since mid Dec. I don't think its unreasonable for me to not want to put 4 week old bin bags in the boot of the car. I would probably have passed out from the smell before I could get to the collection point!

Btw, I knew someone who gave up his sales job to be a bin man. You get to finish quite early (if you get your round done quick), and he liked the outdoor work in the summer, and the pay wasn't bad either. So some people don't actually mind it it seems! Not sure it would be my ideal though!

YANBU to be annoyed with the council - but YABU to complain about your neighbour. As others say, he wsa just taking advantage of one of the perks of his job. We all do that at times, surely.

We haven't had our bins emptied for 5 weeks now. Overflowing...

Having said that, I wouldn't begrudge the binman this perk - its a really unpleasant job that someone has to do, and there can't be many perks to it!

Ours haven't been emptied for 3 weeks now. We live on a main road and all our bins have been out blocking the pavement since Monday- we can't take them in as the council have said they will get to them when they can

I don't understand why they can't get them TBH most roads are pretty accessible now even despite the snow.