Lowest Bidder
Oct. 15th, 2012 07:46 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
plonqThe city went with (in their words) "the lowest bidder" for our new garbage and recycling collection. People who were supposed to have their garbage collected last Wednesday are still waiting to have it picked up, and now they are complaining about the lousy service.
We went with the company who promised to do the work for the least amount of money, and now we wonder why the service is not the greatest. It's possible that it is because they are using cheap equipment, with the fewest, lowest paid staff they can manage to get away with in order to come in with a really low bid but remain profitable.
We went with the company who promised to do the work for the least amount of money, and now we wonder why the service is not the greatest. It's possible that it is because they are using cheap equipment, with the fewest, lowest paid staff they can manage to get away with in order to come in with a really low bid but remain profitable.
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Date: 2012-10-15 06:46 pm (UTC)My spouse watched as he lifted up and tipped the bin into the truck, waited a second for the stuff to spill out, then threw the bin on its side on the ground as its contents were continuing to spill out. This left a pile of green bin refuse on the roadway which started to blow away in the wind, so my spouse had to run out behind the truck and pick up our stuff they weren't smart enough to get by themselves.
I guess having two weeks worth of stuff in the green bin is confusing them (we were away last Monday, naturally). Unfortunately, we will have an excess every week until they finally decide to take the full contents or it eventually blows away before we can re-pick it up.