Post #1230239
2026-04-08 11:52 UTC
Do you think your uncle was in any way representative of the millions of people employed in waste disposal? The city of Birmingham's bins have gone partially uncollected for over a year due to a dispute over pay. If waste disposal workers were, in general, doing it for the love of it, they'd surely be happy to do it for minimum wage.
Seems more likely your uncle was the odd one out, and most people need to be paid to do stinky work.
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@Micromot@piefed.social 2026-04-08 12:13
I think that mostly happens because it's a hard job and because people need money to live. If they didn't they wouldn't need more pay
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@Ryanmiller70@lemmy.zip 2026-04-09 02:07
The pay argument is cause it wasn't enough to cover necessities. If necessities were 100% covered then there's no need to argue over pay.