Hmm, that's one good guess ... minus the assumption there's something
wrong about getting paid overtime for working overtime. I'm not the
slightest bit bothered by the notion that a person who heaves garbage
for a living might want to call it quits after 8 hr, and ask for a bit
more if you want them to push their route. Nobody's getting rich behind
those garbage trucks, seriously. But practice makes perfect and they
probably can chuck more trash/hr than we could, if they quit doing it
and we all had to fill in for them. So why shouldn't they get tipped on
heavy-duty days?
I've never lived in a Friday-pickup zone, so I have no clue which way
they do it. Maybe they work Saturdays. Maybe they work a couple of extra
hours on each of several days following a holiday. Maybe they omit
certain side services on 4-day weeks. Maybe overtime is optional or
maybe it isn't. Maybe they have a complicated, ad-hoc strategy that
employs all the above methods, which works better some weeks than others.
-- Tony West
Dave Axler wrote:
Perhaps -- and this is a guess, nothing more -- they get overtime pay
for the Saturday work? Given this city's history of giving the unions
just about anything they ask for, I wouldn't be surprised if that's
the case.
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