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.? ? ----? You are receiving this because you are subscribed to the? list named "UnivCity." To unsubscribe or for archive information, see? <http://www.purple.com/list.html>.? ________________________________________________________________________ More new features than ever. Check out the new AOL Mail ! - http://webmail.aol.com