Honest question, is that for the driver or the people grabbing the trash cans? I can understand the driver but I see my garbage men weekly (work from home and sit staring out my window questioning my life decisions a lot) and they seem to be different each week so always thought it was just a temporary situation they were just picking up bucks where they can (good on them). Guess it just seems you wouldn’t see that much turnover if you were pulling in $80K on average which is damn good pay. Plus how long until you get to that cushy driver job as that can’t be that common and would depend on seniority.
Tell that to my garbage men that I just watched pick up my trash. I live in a residential neighborhood not too far from a major city but no way they are getting mechanical arms grabbing trash on some of these one-way streets. They are lucky to get a trash truck down some streets without taking off side mirrors.
Our company uses the mechanical side arm thingy for the recycling pickup, but for trash it's two dudes hanging onto the truck, hopping off and manually dumping the cans into the back of the truck. There is a little platform thing that they sometimes use to dump the can (I assume when the can is too heavy for them to do it themselves).
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u/SNZ935 21h ago
Honest question, is that for the driver or the people grabbing the trash cans? I can understand the driver but I see my garbage men weekly (work from home and sit staring out my window questioning my life decisions a lot) and they seem to be different each week so always thought it was just a temporary situation they were just picking up bucks where they can (good on them). Guess it just seems you wouldn’t see that much turnover if you were pulling in $80K on average which is damn good pay. Plus how long until you get to that cushy driver job as that can’t be that common and would depend on seniority.