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outb0undflight t1_jahfsp2 wrote

It's very weird how defensive people on this sub get about the city's dogshit trash pickup. I've never spoken to a single person in my day-to-day life who actually thinks it's good. But every time you criticize it on here there's people crawling out of the woodwork to act like it's the best service anyone's ever provided.

I complained about how difficult it is to throw away big carboard boxes when the residential drop-off was closed once and everyone's response was, "You need to break it down!" (I do) and "If it's too big you're supposed to break it down and put it under the recycling bin!" (I've literally watched them pickup the bin, empty it, and leave the folded cardboard on the ground. Bonus: They hucked the recycling bin after doing so.)

This is all to say that yeah, trash pickup here sucks.

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Business_Fly_5746 OP t1_jahfzcs wrote

Seriously, I feel like I'm in the reddit Twilight Zone right now. Like this guy locked eyes with me and yeeted my bin, and people are trying to tell me I'm a Karen for anonymously complaining.

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FrontYardPeople t1_jahlnud wrote

I think the eye contact suggests he doesn't see anything wrong with the chucking of the bin rather than them having the nerve to knowingly offend you/be a jerk while staring you in the face. I could be wrong though!

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Eric_Fapton t1_jahj44o wrote

They do it to all bins. They just toss ‘em and run to the next ones. Its nothing personal. Everyones bins end up in a mangle mess flipped every which way on my street. It’s the nature of the business. You realize what people put in those things. Some nasty stuff! These guys have to smell every persons nasty bins all day long. Put yourself in their shoes for a few minutes and get over yourself.

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Business_Fly_5746 OP t1_jahs1rf wrote

As a paying customer I expect bare minimum for my stuff to not be broken during normal use. Get over myself? Nice response.

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Eric_Fapton t1_jahusgh wrote

What I’m saying is your not the only person this happens too. Its just how they operate. They grab em, dump em, toss em, mine too. Every week.

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legendofsteve t1_jairhpu wrote

That doesn’t make what they’re doing acceptable…

Nor does it mean nobody should complain.

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AceOfTheSwords t1_jai06w7 wrote

My bin has basically always wound up upside down on the strip of grass between the road and the sidewalk (unless the wind carries it away), so this isn't a consistent thing across the whole city at least.

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_Strid_ t1_jaikivr wrote

Found the trash guy, probably from Republic.

It takes more effort for them to toss 'em than to drop 'em. Regardless, it's hardly normal for people to come home and have to pick trash bins up out of their yard, or down the road, or wherever someone throws it - not normal at all.

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Damaso87 t1_jajcn3h wrote

Trash happens in every city in the world, and somehow you're the one excusing Worcester's poor as piss performance as if it were the only place gracing us with the paid service. Grow up. These guys are shit at their job.

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its-a-crisis t1_jak4gvi wrote

It’s not unique to the city. Someone in my suburb’s Facebook group had an issue with the trash guys moving their bin across their driveway which was then blocking the mailbox, and the mailman began to refuse to deliver mail on trash days. Holy hell did OP get roasted.

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Whole-Wishbone-7539 t1_jaih8pi wrote

This reminds me of a complaint in this sub about a year ago where somebody was complaining about the fact that trash juice leaks out of the city trash trucks and some dude was ready to defend to the death that there was nothing that could be done about said trash juice. Absolutely ready to fight anyone who dared to say trash juice isn't something that happens everywhere to everyone. Some people have gaslit themselves into loving Worcester's awful public services.

ETA: the trash service is great in that if I ever need to get rid of some non kosher shit like lead, or electronics I just tape a bag to it and leave it someplace where the trucks will find it and then the city gets to decide what to do with it since they waste my tax dollars on shit like homeless daycare and running bus routes with annual ridership in the low teens.

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Damaso87 t1_jajcrjq wrote

That was an insane thread to read. I bet it's the same guy.

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Whole-Wishbone-7539 t1_jajjjcx wrote

That was one of the wildest threads on here. I'm not sure if that guy had ever left the city. I'm glad you remember that one.

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