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Try phoning most council departments after 5.30pm ( 4.30pm on a Friday ) or getting most council workers to do something outside their 'job description' - they won't do it. It's just the binmen that get the bad press.

Those slagging off the binmen also need to take into account that they are only working to rule .... i.e. only working their contracted hours. I'm not aware that there is anything wrong with that ? They are doing what they are paid for. If the service can't be run without overtime then one has...

For less than 20k a year ?

At the risk of being unpopular, I have some sympathies for the binmen. Over many years they have fought for and got better conditions. Then along comes some ridiculous public sector idea that pay should not only be equal across gender but also across some roles. So all of a sudden they lump...