Comment on Daily discussion thread: đŚ Friday, May 10, 2024
Bottom_racer@aussie.zone â¨6⊠â¨months⊠ago
So a tradie I had over yesterday decided to chuck a fair bit of rubble / building material into the household waste. Wouldâve weighed 40kg-ish and that likely wouldnât have been collected this morning.
there I am at 10pm in the driveway with the bin on its side shovelling it out into pots. The sensor light isnât the best so you sort of have to give it a good wave so it turns on.
Anyway dude across the street is a psychiatrist⌠who witnessed me waving enthusiatically at the sensor several times between taking a shovel to a binâŚ
He asked if I was okay which was nice.
Mittens_meow@aussie.zone â¨6⊠â¨months⊠ago
At least he attempted clean up. The tradies I get just walk away from all the mess. Including their empty coffee cups, lunch scraps etc. have had to chase my dog to extract a mouldy sandwich before. (Thereâs an obvious rubbish bin close by)
Catfish@aussie.zone â¨6⊠â¨months⊠ago
You donât want to know about some of the toileting stories from building sites!
Baku@aussie.zone â¨6⊠â¨months⊠ago
I donât understand what it is about the trades that waives usual profesional standards and just general societal expectations. I canât really think of any other job (except those catalogue and assorted letterbox rubbish deliverers) where itâs acceptable to just leave your rubbish everywhere, or fob getting rid of it onto your customers. Even when they âmake an effort to clean upâ they usually donât get rid of it correctly. Rubble shouldnât go into regular curbside bins, but 40kgs especially can not
ajsadauskas@aus.social â¨6⊠â¨months⊠ago
@Baku @Mittens_meow I just want to add something here.
My strong suspicion is that a lot of the asbestos that has shown up in park mulch lately has been because some tradies have dumped a bunch of building waste in a green bin somewhere.
That's just a bunch and I could be wrong.
But it really wouldn't surprise me either.