Old Grafters

[mel b 2,159]

6 hours ago, tatsblisters said:

Think it helps if you have a job you enjoy doing something I have never had. 

I've been a binman for the last 23 years . It used to be a great job , with decent money , decent hours , and a great bunch of lads to work with . I'm  unbelievably bored with it now and i feckin hate the place , but I'm just too old and knackered to look at retraining.

Financially I'm sound , I was mortgage free before I was 40 , but I always worry , just incase things go tits up.  I've been poor , and I really don't like it.

 

[tatsblisters 9,417]

34 minutes ago, mel b said:

I've been a binman for the last 23 years . It used to be a great job , with decent money , decent hours , and a great bunch of lads to work with . I'm  unbelievably bored with it now and i feckin hate the place , but I'm just too old and knackered to look at retraining.

Financially I'm sound , I was mortgage free before I was 40 , but I always worry , just incase things go tits up.  I've been poor , and I really don't like it.

 

Same here mate had short spells out of work and did the full 12 months in the 84/85 miners strike and now being mortgage free and no kids at home with two wages and small pensions that we both get we have never been as well off though I know we would be comfortable with us both getting the state pension and not working. 

[Flacko 1,741]

Was told bin men earn good money Mel 

[mel b 2,159]

17 minutes ago, tatsblisters said:

Same here mate had short spells out of work and did the full 12 months in the 84/85 miners strike and now being mortgage free and no kids at home with two wages and small pensions that we both get we have never been as well off though I know we would be comfortable with us both getting the state pension and not working. 

I'm thinking more and more about drawing my council pension and calling it a day . We also own a small business. It does very well , but theirs still the worry that it could go tits up at any time with the way things are at the moment .

I suppose the fear comes from being comfortable for a few years.

[Daniel cain 44,966]

1 hour ago, mel b said:

I've been a binman for the last 23 years . It used to be a great job , with decent money , decent hours , and a great bunch of lads to work with . I'm  unbelievably bored with it now and i feckin hate the place , but I'm just too old and knackered to look at retraining.

Financially I'm sound , I was mortgage free before I was 40 , but I always worry , just incase things go tits up.  I've been poor , and I really don't like it.

 

The boys that used to do the bins and work for the council grass cutting etc was sound as f**k yrs ago.. could offer to give them a few quid and they would take stuff away for you. These days I find these new breed cnuts as helpful as a f***ing traffic warden...have to stop myself getting out the motor and knocking the obnoxious cnuts across the road,Ive no time whatsoever these days for any local authority personnel ,they all like bus drivers and taxi driving cnuts,boil my piss

[mel b 2,159]

20 minutes ago, Flacko said:

Was told bin men earn good money Mel 

It used to be quite well paid years ago , and in all honesty , I'm on decent money because I've been there a long time , and im a hgv driver , but following a 10k pay cut and well below inflation pay rises for the last ten years , its pretty poor now.  I think my loaders earn about £11.50 per hour now , and most of them are agency workers that get laid off for around two months every year( a few days here and there). They also get spoken to and treated like absolute shit by the supervisors and management . They constantly get threatened and bullied. It's an absolute disgrace.

It's certainly not the job it was a few years ago.

 

[THE STIFFMEISTER 15,677]

I couldnt possibly imagine having a proper job as such . 

I know that the army is deemed to be by some some sort of storm trooper academy but in reality I’m master of my own destiny and can kinda choose or bid for what they want me to do within reason . 

spent a lot of time this year delivering guidance and management to small teams , something I’d like to explore in future , however the idea that I’d be arking around in offices and on the motorway in a company car do any really appeal at present . 

for me , until I find a job where I can screw an equally proportionate amount of disposable income to an inversely amount of actual tangible work , I’ll keep on soldiering on as it were 

[mel b 2,159]

6 minutes ago, Daniel cain said:

The boys that used to do the bins and work for the council grass cutting etc was sound as f**k yrs ago.. could offer to give them a few quid and they would take stuff away for you. These days I find these new breed cnuts as helpful as a f***ing traffic warden...have to stop myself getting out the motor and knocking the obnoxious cnuts across the road,Ive no time whatsoever these days for any local authority personnel ,they all like bus drivers and taxi driving cnuts,boil my piss

You can't blame the blokes for not taking your extra rubbish away. Most trucks now have cameras on them , that are being watched by someone sitting in an office , and if you collect anything that you shouldn't,  you'll be signing on before the end of your shift.

We only get 7 seconds to empty each bin now , so the days when we could stop and have a chat to some of the oldies , or help them out sometimes , are long gone.

I've spent many a tacho break parked outside some old ladies houses , cutting hedges , and taking the cuttings away . If I got caught on camera doing that now , my job , and 23 years pension would be gone.

You might also want to be careful before you step out of your car and take a punch at anyone. We get a few boxers that work on the bins part time for stamina training. They'd give you a right nasty surprise .

[mackem 26,168]

23 minutes ago, Daniel cain said:

The boys that used to do the bins and work for the council grass cutting etc was sound as f**k yrs ago.. could offer to give them a few quid and they would take stuff away for you.

Still do that mate,follow a bin van,offer them £30-40 and they will take the black bags out the back of a van no questions asked

[Daniel cain 44,966]

1 minute ago, mel b said:

You can't blame the blokes for not taking your extra rubbish away. Most trucks now have cameras on them , that are being watched by someone sitting in an office , and if you collect anything that you shouldn't,  you'll be signing on before the end of your shift.

We only get 7 seconds to empty each bin now , so the days when we could stop and have a chat to some of the oldies , or help them out sometimes , are long gone.

I've spent many a tacho break parked outside some old ladies houses , cutting hedges , and taking the cuttings away . If I got caught on camera doing that now , my job , and 23 years pension would be gone.

You might also want to be careful before you step out of your car and take a punch at anyone. We get a few boxers that work on the bins part time for stamina training. They'd give you a right nasty surprise .

That seems to be the problem these days Mel...everyones on the clock and being watched....no better than some worker bee

[mackem 26,168]

2 minutes ago, mel b said:

You can't blame the blokes for not taking your extra rubbish away. Most trucks now have cameras on them , that are being watched by someone sitting in an office , and if you collect anything that you shouldn't,  you'll be signing on before the end of your shift.

Still happens in west-London Mel,money talks always.

[Daniel cain 44,966]

They take a lot f***ing longer than 7 seconds to empty a bin in f***ing wales

[mackem 26,168]

I got the retirement gold watch while I was still young enough to enjoy life.

[mel b 2,159]

Just now, Daniel cain said:

That seems to be the problem these days Mel...everyones on the clock and being watched....no better than some worker bee

Yep , it's absolutely awful . I feel pig ignorant when i dont have time to spend with members of the public now, especially the old people . I know only too well that youre probably one of the only people  theyll have contact with  all week , but for every 7 seconds I spend talking to them , someone at the end of the round doesn't get their bin emptied that day.  It's a real sorry state of affairs.

People are changing as well . The old lads that I started with were proper old hard nosed feckers.  They'd slog 15 miles through the snow or high temperatures all day , and throw 30 tons of shite  on the back of the lorry by hand . Some of the folks that work with us now ,don't turn up if it's raining or cold . I can't really blame them though , not when you can earn more working inside in the warm and dry , sitting at a computer , or working in a supermarket. 

[Daniel cain 44,966]

1 minute ago, mel b said:

Yep , it's absolutely awful . I feel pig ignorant when i dont have time to spend with members of the public now, especially the old people . I know only too well that youre probably one of the only people  theyll have contact with  all week , but for every 7 seconds I spend talking to them , someone at the end of the round doesn't get their bin emptied that day.  It's a real sorry state of affairs.

People are changing as well . The old lads that I started with were proper old hard nosed feckers.  They'd slog 15 miles through the snow or high temperatures all day , and throw 30 tons of shite  on the back of the lorry by hand . Some of the folks that work with us now ,don't turn up if it's raining or cold . I can't really blame them though , not when you can earn more working inside in the warm and dry , sitting at a computer , or working in a supermarket. 

The bit about , being the only person they may speak too that day....reminds me of my time working in London,using the tube in the morning...looking at some of those faces...Only rail staff making the effort and saying good morning etc horrible lonely old place to life....we are  living in some sad times mate