How much do you tip your garbageman?

mayaocean
mayaocean Posts: 355 Member
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Hey everyone,

I was just wondering how much I should tip the waste management crew, since tomorrow morning is pick up day.

How much do you guys usually tip your garbageman?

Thanks in advance.
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  • cmriverside
    cmriverside Posts: 34,422 Member
    What? WHo does that?





    Well, apparently, the OP.




    Asked and answered. I'll be here all week.
  • hastingsmassage
    hastingsmassage Posts: 162 Member
    do you need to tip them??????
  • mayaocean
    mayaocean Posts: 355 Member
    do you need to tip them??????

    Yes, they do hard work and deserve it more than people who carry around food in climate controlled environments.
  • Chieflrg
    Chieflrg Posts: 9,097 Member
    I just leave a 12 pack of cold ones sitting in the snow bank next to the garbage can.
  • seltzermint555
    seltzermint555 Posts: 10,740 Member
    what the heck...no
  • Celtic_Ace
    Celtic_Ace Posts: 62
    big difference there. One of them has their salary based on tips and the other one doesn't. Its not a matter of who works harder or is more deserving. Most garbageman get paid well with benefits and most waiters barely make an hourly wage.
  • SmartAlec03211988
    SmartAlec03211988 Posts: 1,896 Member
    Of course I do... they take away my garbage. Why wouldn't I tip them for their service?
  • funforsports
    funforsports Posts: 2,656 Member
    I just leave a 12 pack of cold ones sitting in the snow bank next to the garbage can.

    I do the same but I drink them all first.
  • AyeCorona
    AyeCorona Posts: 204 Member
    My disposal service has a spot on the invoice where you can include a tip...I usually add $20 for Xmas.

    ETA: Same thing for other services like postman, groomer, etc.
  • AZ_Gato
    AZ_Gato Posts: 1,270 Member
    If I were in the sanitation business, I'd appreciate a visual tip followed by thank you for working so hard.

    I'm not sure how I'd feel about someone trying to give me money when it isn't customary to do so.
  • knightreader
    knightreader Posts: 813 Member
    i dont.

    and i don't understand why other people do. ours even has the nerve to give us an envelope to put his tip in and asks us to mail it to him b/c he says if we leave it out for him, people will steal it. and that's probably true.

    and i like to think of myself as a generous tipper, just not to someone who is doing their job and getting paid to do it. waiters and people like that make less money as tips are then included. but mailmen, my son's bus driver, and the garbage man all make a salary.

    there are about 30 kids on my son's bus. if everyone of them gave him $10 to dunkin donuts, he would have $300 in gift cards to dunkin donuts. and that's just one route. he drives at least three routes per day. so at the end of the day the guy can potentially have almost a $1000 in gift cards...just for doing what he is paid to do anyway. seems excessive, if you ask me.
  • wheird
    wheird Posts: 7,963 Member
    Oh Chloe :laugh:
  • ldrosophila
    ldrosophila Posts: 7,512 Member
    you tip them? what's next the postman, your nurse, the meter reader? No, I pay you $60 a month dump it and move on.
  • mayaocean
    mayaocean Posts: 355 Member
    you tip them? what's next the postman, your nurse, the meter reader? No, I pay you $60 a month dump it and move on.

    Yes, I also tip the mailman
  • Celtic_Ace
    Celtic_Ace Posts: 62
    cruel but funny as hell
  • Camera_BagintheUK
    Camera_BagintheUK Posts: 707 Member
    We don't have garbagemen in the UK. We have bin-men. And I don't think anybody tips them - ours come at the crack of dawn anyway.
  • wheird
    wheird Posts: 7,963 Member
    I leave my mail carrier a card.
  • AyeCorona
    AyeCorona Posts: 204 Member
    you tip them? what's next the postman, your nurse, the meter reader? No, I pay you $60 a month dump it and move on.

    $60 a month for trash service? That's insane!! I think mine is $46 per quarter including recycling. I'm in Georgia.
  • vtmoon
    vtmoon Posts: 3,436 Member
    I leave ours a gift card during the Holidays, last year was 20 Walmart one.

    But again this depends on where you live, some might straight out find it insulting if the amount is little vs not leaving anything (which is weird).
  • Rage_Phish
    Rage_Phish Posts: 1,507 Member
    When i was a kid my folks would always leave a 6 pack of budweiser out for them around christmas time.
  • mayaocean
    mayaocean Posts: 355 Member
    When i was a kid my folks would always leave a 6 pack of budweiser out for them around christmas time.

    But they're not allowed to drink on the job?
  • ldrosophila
    ldrosophila Posts: 7,512 Member
    you tip them? what's next the postman, your nurse, the meter reader? No, I pay you $60 a month dump it and move on.

    $60 a month for trash service? That's insane!! I think mine is $46 per quarter including recycling. I'm in Georgia.

    Heck yeah it is...we have a big dumpster since we are so rural in Cali
  • pinkraynedropjacki
    pinkraynedropjacki Posts: 3,027 Member
    Tip the garbo? What the hell for? That's their JOB that they get paid to do. Nobody tips me for keeping them employed. The fact I own my own home means that I pay for the garbage to be collected. They do a crap job at it as well.
  • zombilishious
    zombilishious Posts: 1,250 Member
    I leave a 12 pack at Christmas every year...they love me...and also when I want them to take my yard waste without making me pay extra every summer...
  • Rage_Phish
    Rage_Phish Posts: 1,507 Member
    When i was a kid my folks would always leave a 6 pack of budweiser out for them around christmas time.

    But they're not allowed to drink on the job?

    no, no one said they were
  • fulleroaks
    fulleroaks Posts: 15
    None.

    Our garbage pick-up is automated now. A mechanical arm comes out of the truck to pick up the garbage can. The driver doesn't need to get out of the truck.

    My husband's church mails him a letter & envelope (also sent to every other member of the congregation), requesting tips for all of the church office staff. I think that's a bit much.
  • xoemmytee
    xoemmytee Posts: 162 Member
    I'd say 30 degrees. 45 degrees if they did a really good job.
  • Ed98043
    Ed98043 Posts: 1,333 Member
    My garbage service is about $50 a month including yard waste and recycling. My tip for them is that I have to pay for weekly service but only put garbage out twice a month, so they're only doing half the work. lol

    But seriously...I had no idea that anyone tips their garbage men. Around here, at least, they're union guys and get paid well so it never occurred to me.
  • charliex2202
    charliex2202 Posts: 4,281 Member
    I give him the garbage! is that not enough? lol

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