Bristol bin men (*refuse collection operatives) strike.

purch

If I were out of work I certainly wouldn't turn my nose up

Easy to type.

Next time you see your "bin men", go and stand behind the vehicle, and see how long you can stand it before you gag !!!!

Then consider a career change

purch

then innit?

Is that meant to mean something intelligent ??

MrDT

purch wrote: »

Easy to type.

Next time you see your "bin men", go and stand behind the vehicle, and see how long you can stand it before you gag !!!!

Then consider a career change

I'm not considering a career change. I'm saying if I were out of work I'd rather take a job as a binman than do nothing.

In case you hadn't noticed, there are plenty of people out of work, some of whom are newly unemployed due to losing their jobs in this recession - I'm not talking about the people that see unemployment as a lifestyle choice.

Binmen are going on strike due to their "payrise" being too low. They need to wake up. Plenty of people would be willing to work behind a smelly lorry if it put food on the table. It may seem abhorrent to you purch, but the vacancies would be filled within days of them being given the chop.

tomstickland

digipeep wrote: »

Daily Mail readers get everywhere don't they, and they are the first to complain when their bins aren't emptied.

Give the Binmen a decent pay rise, I'm always happy for them to clear the rubbish I through away, and can they dump the right wing daily mail readers in the pit at the same time where they belong.

If "Daily Mail readers" get everywhere then maybe their views are representative of a majority of UK residents.

I'm very pleased to have someone who comes around and takes away the rubbish. However, it would probably be cheaper for me to call in at the recycling centre every other week with my sack of rubbish and the recycling stuff.

Maybe you view this as some sort of "nasty employer" versus "poor exploited workers" situation. The view I was expressing was that their strike is not going to receive a good deal of sympathy from people who have taken pay cuts or lost their jobs already. Diddums indeed.

Snooze

purch wrote: »

Easy to type.

Next time you see your "bin men", go and stand behind the vehicle, and see how long you can stand it before you gag !!!!

Then consider a career change

Easy to do as well, and I have. You don't even notice the smell after a while and the job is a piece of p!ss. And this comes from someone who usually gets a sweat on just at the mere thought of having to do any manual labour, so that shows you just how much of a doddle it is.

It's easy to be an armchair expert and pretend you know all about the job and how 'bad' it is but the reality is that you haven't got a clue. :rolleyes:

R

Old_Slaphead

purch wrote: »

Is that meant to mean something intelligent ??

Innit - British slang - contraction of "isn't it", "isn't he/she", "aren't they", "isn't there" and many other end-of-sentence questions

Microstar_2

I notice all the usual 'seat warmers' on this forum come out with the usual comments.
Firstly, these blokes are not 'public sector' - they are employees of a private company.
Secondly, its not a very good job for not a very good wage. Miserable when its hot, when its wet or when its cold.
I have spent most of my life doing physical work (servicing cars, lifting engines and gearboxes etc.) and I now employ people who do this work. Its tiring and mucky and there's not a lot of people who want to do it these days - unless you count in the Eastern Europeans.
There's many time I have to hold back from lamping some half-arsed lilly-fingered office-type who's moaned about the cost of clutch or timing belt change. None of them know how to do the job but they all know it shouldn't cost much and is not that difficult.
My bet is if all these bin men were sacked they wouldn't be easily replaced, you'd certainly not have many admin types (private or public sector) swapping jobs with these boys.

purch

It's easy to be an armchair expert and pretend you know all about the job and how 'bad' it is but the reality is that you haven't got a clue

You are right.

I don't have a clue about how nice and easy the Job is.

tomstickland

Microstar wrote: »

I notice all the usual 'seat warmers' on this forum come out with the usual comments.
Firstly, these blokes are not 'public sector' - they are employees of a private company.
Secondly, its not a very good job for not a very good wage. Miserable when its hot, when its wet or when its cold.
I have spent most of my life doing physical work (servicing cars, lifting engines and gearboxes etc.) and I now employ people who do this work. Its tiring and mucky and there's not a lot of people who want to do it these days - unless you count in the Eastern Europeans.
There's many time I have to hold back from lamping some half-arsed lilly-fingered office-type who's moaned about the cost of clutch or timing belt change. None of them know how to do the job but they all know it shouldn't cost much and is not that difficult.
My bet is if all these bin men were sacked they wouldn't be easily replaced, you'd certainly not have many admin types (private or public sector) swapping jobs with these boys.

But that doesn't explain why striking on a 2.5% offer is a good idea when loads of people are losing jobs or taking pay cuts.

Generali

tomstickland wrote: »

But that doesn't explain why striking on a 2.5% offer is a good idea when loads of people are losing jobs or taking pay cuts.

It's a good idea because they're in a strong position - the company they work for isn't going to sack them because it'll be hard to replace them even in tough economic conditions.