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Has some garden rubbish to take down the tip this morning so borrowed a pick-up truck from work to save getting the car all dirty.
Turned up at the tip to unload, geezer on the gate said
"Have you got a permit for that?"
I quickly glanced over to the passenger seat to just double check that I didn't have the missus sitting in the passenger seat and then realised he was talking about the truck.
"I'm not trade" says I. "I've just borrowed this from work to make life easy. Only other alternative was to make about 9 trips in an old Fiesta"
Despite showing him the £17,995 + VAT price hanger, the spec sheet and the "automatic diesel" stickers I had taken off the windscreen, he still wasn't having any of it.
I was just about to get out and clump him when somebody else came over who had a bit of sense and let me through.
Jobsworth knobs
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It was like the time I went to buy a car and had forgoten my insurance document and the bloody jobsworth in the dealership wouldn't release the car to me incase I didnt hav it insured.


JOBSWORTH KNOB !!!!!!

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It was like the time I went to buy a car and had forgoten my insurance document and the bloody jobsworth in the dealership wouldn't release the car to me incase I didnt hav it insured.


JOBSWORTH KNOB !!!!!!

;) ;) ;) ;) ;)
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Serves you right for being such a tosspot
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Has some garden rubbish to take down the tip this morning so borrowed a pick-up truck from work to save getting the car all dirty.
Turned up at the tip to unload, geezer on the gate said
"Have you got a permit for that?"
I quickly glanced over to the passenger seat to just double check that I didn't have the missus sitting in the passenger seat and then realised he was talking about the truck.
"I'm not trade" says I. "I've just borrowed this from work to make life easy. Only other alternative was to make about 9 trips in an old Fiesta"
Despite showing him the £17,995 + VAT price hanger, the spec sheet and the "automatic diesel" stickers I had taken off the windscreen, he still wasn't having any of it.
I was just about to get out and clump him when somebody else came over who had a bit of sense and let me through.
Jobsworth knobs
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These council refuse facilities always seem to be full of jobsworth employees (far too many in my opinion) who delight in pulling you up on anything. Either that or there are about half a dozen lazing about on their ar$es. Also, what are their rights for selling stuff on? They are always hovering with a big hook to get out any 'treasure' people have hoyed out - perk of the job??
 
most tips I know somebody has paid for the skipping rights from the council, most used to be someone named Smith, now I think they have too many consonants, especially 'z'.

Round Stevenage you get more trouble from the blokes on the dustcart. Council send out a leaflet telling you what goes in which bin - perm one from 5 or 6! Trouble is either they don't tell the environment technicians, or the ET's can't or choose not to read it.

No end of times they root through bins and chuck anything they have decided not to take that week onto the garden.
 
Most council tips are cctv monitored.
Employees are under the microscope as much as the public. Instant dismissal for pilfering from waste sites.
I do agree though, there are some right jobsworth knobheads working there.
 
Last time I went to our tip a couple of weeks ago, my car was packed to the roof. The first worker I saw said 'Can I help you with all of that?'

I didn't think I looked that infirm.
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What's wrong with that? Never heard of customer service? Jobsworths some of them may be, they are however paid through council tax (if council run) and as such are there to serve the public.
 
Happens down here all the time, I got turned away from 2 tips when we moved house `because I turned up in a hire van. I'd hired the van 'cos we moved house, and thought I'd have a clear out at the same time. They don't allow hire vans !! Despite the fact I can prove it's just a 24hr rental.

I had to borrow my old mans 4x4, what is the difference ?

Also went recently with a load of old mouldy shed roof/ Ivy/ Garden waste. The bloke made me sort it into different piles as wood & garden waste go to different places ? The wood in there was pretty much indistinguishable from the garden waste as it was so old..... knobs !!!!
 
I feel for you. I took an old washing machine to the tip in a trailer. They wouldn't let me in with the trailer, because I needed a permit. To get a permit, you have to visit the council offices, request some tickets and use them.
I asked "if it was in the back of my car, could a leave it here?"....reply "yes, of course."
"if it was in the back of my car, and I decided to unload it before entering the premises?" could I leave it here?"...."yes, of course, no problem"
So I drive the car and trailer out of the waste site, carry the washing machine 200 yards to be told I couldn't leave it, 'cause it had been in a trailer.
So I carried it back to the car, opened the boot, put one corner in the boot, lift it out, take it back in.....and guess what? They let me leave it. :)

Me, annoyed and grumpy? :eek:
 
Happens down here all the time,

I had to borrow my old mans 4x4, what is the difference ?
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You beat me to it, was just going to say the same, here in Dorset, they are a pain in the backside.

I have a small van, I use for work. It is not sign written and a new one as well.

Popped round my local tip with 4 bags of grass cuttings and was told I couldn't dump commercial waste, I told them it was just grass from my house but he said its in a commercial vehicle so it was commercial waste !!

Now my neighbour, who owns a garage has 2 4X4's which both has the name of his business all over them but is aloud to take them round with all kinds of stuff in them, even stuff from his garage, because its not a van so not a commercial vehicle.

I even tired to buy a permit to dump but was not aloud because we have another car at the address, my wife's new 4 month old small car.

I can drive my van 18 miles down the road to Salisbury (Wiltshire) and dump whatever I want down there in the van, but not in Dorset. :mad:

Del
 
Also went recently with a load of old mouldy shed roof/ Ivy/ Garden waste. The bloke made me sort it into different piles as wood & garden waste go to different places ? The wood in there was pretty much indistinguishable from the garden waste as it was so old..... knobs !!!!
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oh yeah - I forgot the sorting. even to the point of paper in this one, cardboard in that, clean timber here - painted there, plastic milk containers in this but the caps have to go somewhere else. and then when you've sorted everything into the different skips - you have to sort the plastic bags - black in one, all the rest in another

and the solution to all this - just shove everything in the black bag in the black bin.

Makes for great eco-friendly recycling
 
Ahem, you may actually find that the "tip" or household site is not actually manned by "council workers" (ours isn't). It's run by a private company who operate the site under a contract from the council. So if the council says a you need a "permit" then they have to inforce it. Or loose the contract. What would your instructions be to your staff if your company had the contract? Ahhhh, thought so.
 
Ahem, you may actually find that the "tip" or household site is not actually manned by "council workers" (ours isn't). It's run by a private company who operate the site under a contract from the council. So if the council says a you need a "permit" then they have to inforce it. Or loose the contract. What would your instructions be to your staff if your company had the contract? Ahhhh, thought so.
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Question the contract as unenforceable ? Use common sense ? Communicate better ?

I don't care who staffs it, I care as a council tax payer that the tip is not user friendly. It's too easy to hide behind regulation. Rotten wood, wood or garden waste ?? it's hardly crime of the century is it ?
 
Nail them up I say. Nail some sense into them. Crucifixion - first offense.
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The naughty chair first and then crucifixion I say!

Where's the on/off switch for this damned chair??



Chris
 
I feel for you. I took an old washing machine to the tip in a trailer. They wouldn't let me in with the trailer, because I needed a permit. To get a permit, you have to visit the council offices, request some tickets and use them.
I asked "if it was in the back of my car, could a leave it here?"....reply "yes, of course."
"if it was in the back of my car, and I decided to unload it before entering the premises?" could I leave it here?"...."yes, of course, no problem"
So I drive the car and trailer out of the waste site, carry the washing machine 200 yards to be told I couldn't leave it, 'cause it had been in a trailer.
So I carried it back to the car, opened the boot, put one corner in the boot, lift it out, take it back in.....and guess what? They let me leave it. :)

Me, annoyed and grumpy? :eek:
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Why not just take it to the scrappy, you would of got £20 for it :D
 
Went to the local council dump a few weeks ago and there was a rather nice young lady (well, if she was working there she must have been young to me) all dressed up steel cap work boots, hi-vis jacket etc.

Just had to say to her - "What's a nice girl like you doing working in a dump like this"...


I've got my coat on and am just leaving

;)
 
Went to the local council dump a few weeks ago and there was a rather nice young lady (well, if she was working there she must have been young to me) all dressed up steel cap work boots, hi-vis jacket etc.

Just had to say to her - "What's a nice girl like you doing working in a dump like this"...


I've got my coat on and am just leaving

;)
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That joke was so bad can you please put it in the correct recycling box?
 
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