You must make a lot of money since every time I bring in my recyclables you rip me off. At first I thought I miscounted but this last time there was no mistake, $3 short equals 30 $0.10 bottles or 60 $0.05 bottles (my count wasn’t that far off). I would have complained more right there but since you had proceeded the evidence before giving me the money I couldn’t prove my point. Anyway I reported you to Eastern Recyclers Association, if enough people complain they will revoke your membership. —Never Going There Again
This article appears in Dec 30, 2010 – Jan 5, 2011.
This is such a no brainer. You count and throw your stuff in a blue bag, tie it shut and write the number of cans in the bag. No rip-off, no lame bitch.
What TTFN said.
I never question how much I’m refunded. Those folk work in some pretty sour conditions,for shit wages. If they make a mistake/miscount, who cares about a few nickles? Not me.
Think of it as a tip 😉
do they not count the bag if you write the number?
how do they know they aren’t getting ripped off?
The one off Lady Hammond Rd. rips people off big time.
I thought so… grrr.
I used to sort, count, bag and label.
Then one sunny Sat morning I thought why the fuck am I spending two hours doing this, so I stopped. If my recycleables come to $6.50 I give the counter a $5 tip, buy myself a coffee on the way home and enjoy an hour and a half of my weekend.
I have have a lot of respect for the people who work there. They could be panhandling on SGR but they have too much respect for themselves. My rule is all the paper money is the tip and I keep the change.
Shut up, Bon, you just don’t know how to count.
o.p., you are lucky to get anything at all, what with all the bums around, going through the recycle bins and shit. people make good cash off these bottles and cans. fuck, if i had a big place, i would go into it too.
zZz, given the education (probably BA degrees) of the people working in these recycling depots, I truly doubt they bother to count accurately….just write a number on the outside of the bag and have them remove the bag from the back of your car/truck.
I try and store mine under the deck for when the Scouts or Guides come around fund raising. It’s also handy to have empty bottles to throw when the LDS or NDP trolls come knocking.
“OH NO – BOTTLE CURMUDGEONS” says Megan Leslie, star of the new Cable 10 sitcom “Trailer Park Progressives”
>; )
“zZz, given the education (probably BA degrees) of the people working in these recycling depots, I truly doubt they bother to count accurately….just write a number on the outside of the bag and have them remove the bag from the back of your car/truck.”
Another reason why you’re an idiot. Considering how redundant and simple your logic is your education must be grade 12 tops. Or you’re a BBA who tends to think they know everything about everything; even topics they’ve never studied in their lives. Oh wait, you probably went to university but never finished but like to talk a big game. And yet you wonder why no respectable gay man wants you.
HAPPY FUCKING NEW YEAR. HOPE THIS ONE IS A FUCK OF A LOT BETTER FOR EVERYONE, INCLUDING MONTREALMAN.
you guys are idiots.. clearly, the people working at the bottle depot are most likely high school dropouts, who else would want to work that gig?
Yes, i bet most of us get ripped off everytime we refund bottes if any of us worked in that environment we probably wouldnt give a fuck about the count either. To me its no big deal, your contributing to somewhat help the environment and also getting approximately $20.00/recycling depot visit. They also took me old electronics at no charge.
write the number of cans on a sticky note attached to the blue bag, itll still be counted. your probably being ripped off a few cents but a) your slightly contributing to the future of our environment and b) your making at least 20 bucks going to the recycling depot. Fuck off.
I worked at a BE for years in sackville. The majority of the people I worked with were high school students on the weekend looking for money or people in between jobs. You have a few lifers, as with any job, that probably should have been somewhere else but hey, it’s sackville.
Very rarely would the customer ever be a target. It’s way easier to steal from the business itself than the customers. But as someone said earlier, the environments they work in are not only damp and stinky, but extreme hot and cold due to a giant warehouse door open all day, all year.
Try counting to 200, 600 or sometimes even 3200 bottles for a single customer. After a while the numbers just don’t matter and you get really good at guessing. Really good. Give the counters a break, make their day and they can always find a way to make yours.
First I trusted their counting. Then I tried the counting and putting the numbers on the bags and they STILL managed to rip me off. Every time. After 4 attempts, I have found the only way to get what you are returning is to fill out the slips (they will give you them if you ask) and write in the TOTAL DOLLAR VALUE. I go to the same place you are talking about (off Lady Hammond) and this seems to be the only solution to getting what you actually return.
Can you Bottle that rage?
The Glass eyed, student counters live in a Plastic world
where eveRe cycle of their day is spent adding and giving you back the Green.
My father owns that shit, and he’s honest. Used to work for NASA too.