| Comment | My business used to get our bins emptied by the council, but don't anymore.
We had to renew the contract for collection, couldn't get an answer from anyone to get it moving, either via phone or email. After a few weeks the rubbish was piling up so we had to get something fixed up elsewhere.
Meanwhile, a council bin lorry drove past one day and spotted our guys were trying to compress boxes down into less space. The gaffer on the lorry offered to pick our rubbish up, cash in hand, on the side.
If we hadn't just signed onto a contract with someone else it would have been very tempting. I do wonder how much of the rubbish uplifted is done this way.
Then a few weeks later a council squad appeared lifted our two wheelie bins. "You don't have a contract with us anymore, and the bins belong to us" I pointed out that we'd bought one ourselves (since the council wouldn't replace a stolen one) so it wasn't theirs to take.
Everyone used to hope that the council would improve if Labour were voted out, since they'd been incumbent for decades with all the corruption and cronyism that builds up over that time. But things don't appear to have improved much, if any, under the SNP.
Perhaps the problem is "unsackable" council workers who couldn't care less and are running scams on the side. (The bin collection ruse is by no means the worst I've heard of) No sure what you can do about them, though. |
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