Dave, if you think people don't deserve time and a half for working on 
Saturday, that's fine, but don't think paying it is some sort of cave in to 
labor.? You ought to be surprised if people don't get extra pay for working on 
the weekend.? Isn't that the way it ought to be?

And Tony, I don't know why you have to struggle against the obvious.? All your 
permutations are complicated, confusing and just as costly.? The simple, easy 
to remember and consistent solution is to get Friday's trash on Saturday.? Lots 
of people have trouble remembering to hold the trash after a holiday.? Imagine 
the fun of trying to remember if you're on the part of the route that is picked 
up on the correct day, contrary to the rule or on the part that gets picked up 
a day late as per rule.

Or if you're supposed to call in for a special pick up when they forget your 
can (just to make you paranoid that you're going to be ticketed 4 months later 
otherwise), which they'll do to correct their error and waste lots of labor, 
gas and ice caps.

Paul


 


 

-----Original Message-----
From: Anthony West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: UnivCity listserv <UnivCity@list.purple.com>
Sent: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 7:21 pm
Subject: [UC] Talking trash (Was: Re: Illegal trash update)









Hmm, that's one good guess ... minus the assumption there's something 
wrong about getting paid overtime for working overtime. I'm not the 
slightest bit bothered by the notion that a person who heaves garbage 
for a living might want to call it quits after 8 hr, and ask for a bit 
more if you want them to push their route. Nobody's getting rich behind 
those garbage trucks, seriously. But practice makes perfect and they 
probably can chuck more trash/hr than we could, if they quit doing it 
and we all had to fill in for them. So why shouldn't they get tipped on 
heavy-duty days??
?

I've never lived in a Friday-pickup zone, so I have no clue which way 
they do it. Maybe they work Saturdays. Maybe they work a couple of extra 
hours on each of several days following a holiday. Maybe they omit 
certain side services on 4-day weeks. Maybe overtime is optional or 
maybe it isn't. Maybe they have a complicated, ad-hoc strategy that 
employs all the above methods, which works better some weeks than others.?
?

-- Tony West?
?


Dave Axler wrote:?

> Perhaps -- and this is a guess, nothing more -- they get overtime pay 
> for the Saturday work? Given this city's history of giving the unions 
> just about anything they ask for, I wouldn't be surprised if that's 
> the case.?
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