Unemployed nephew too good for garbage collection

self | 10/25/09 | self

[Mac from Cleveland]

Per my last post:

It helps, when sending wish Yiddish aphorisms not to put a typo in—I meant to write “says”, not syas” (long day).

[mysterio]

mysterio, proudly posting without reading the article since 2001.

Sorry if I was a bit jumpy on this one. I do try to be a gent, but sometimes the contrarian just jumps right out and says howdy.

[raybbr]

Congratulations on your classy post! (sarc)

Sometimes real life isn't "classy". It just is what it is.

[Daffynition]

Garbage collectors earn:

$80,000 in New York City. 35,000 in Pensacola Florida.

Chicagoland garbage man can earn 65,000 to 80,000

.........and let’s not forget bennies.

[FourPeas]

LOL. We haul our trash “down the hill” where prisoners from the local jail tend to it. Gotta love Oklahoma.

[JRochelle]

LOL

I get what you are saying.

There are a lot of people out of work right now who would rather be working than drawing unemployment. Then there are a lot who really like that life...

[Mac from Cleveland]

I missed seeing post #27 originally. After seeing your response, my curiosity got the better of me.

I’m sorry it did. Oy Gevalt!

[tbw2]

What are “bennies”?

[FourPeas]

We’ve been through the same sort of thing with a car. Come to think of it, this nephew called us some months ago asking to borrow money. We learned the hard way, through losing a childhood friendship, that we don’t loan friends or family money or property. We either give or we explain why we must say no.

[Daffynition]

Benefits.

Health insurance, dental, optical, 410K matching, etc.

[Tijeras_Slim]

Benefits.

[Tijeras_Slim]

ARRRRR! ;)

[Mac from Cleveland]

Glad you got a laugh from it—BTW, didn’t mean to be snarky about it—sounds like a shame, and it must be tough for you to have to witness. Your nephew’s not alone-especially these days-there are some people who only learn the hard way, it seems. Life’s hard enough without making it worse.

[FourPeas]

The discussion was about trash removal and the fact we haul ours “down the hill” rather than take it to the curb to be taken away — it’s way, waaaay too hot here in the summer to let garbage sit around and ferment when we can pay a small fee to be able to dump it in town. As part of the conversation he said he’d never take a job collecting garbage, especially in the summer.

[FourPeas]

mysterio, proudly posting without reading the article since 2001.

LOL! You and I joined the same year.

[FourPeas]

A guy I knew in high school worked summers painting garbage trucks — inside and out. It was an awful, stinky job BUT he was Very Well Paid. Very. He hated the job, but kept going back summer after summer.

[libertarian27]

Isn’t there also the risk of being unable to evict people who stay but don’t have a lease?

Technically, if a lease runs out or there never was one you need to go to court and get a judgment to get them out. Depending on circumstances and ability to pay it could take a month or more (depending on your state).

I couldn't imagine having to let a squatter live at my house because they know the law and work it...trespassers have a lot of rights.

[SaraJohnson]

I would not take a trash job either if I could help it. That is a nasty job. You ever done it? I had a boyfriend in high school who did it to get money for college. It really brought his spirit down. Then he lucked out and got a job driving sports cars between car dealers!

[FourPeas]

I didn’t take it as snarky at all.

[ebshumidors]

My first job was on the wash rack at a chickenfeed factory when I was 14. I lied that I was 18. You have no idea. Glad to have it.