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I respect them too. Here in the UK I always try to say good morning and thanks to our bin collectors.

Do you know how many hours do they do? Is it the fact that when their route is complete they are finished for the day? Because then there is a pretty good incentive to work hard and fast.

[colanderman]

I'm trying to wrap my head around how this, and tipping, works. Here (suburb of Boston), curbside trash collection is like a 10-second affair. Do you like wait outside on a lawn chair for hours and then run up to them waving your arms and shouting over the noise of the compactor truck?

[jfrunyon]

I highly doubt that they're salaried, so the incentive would actually be to take longer to make more money. A more likely incentive for them to work fast is that they'll be fired if they don't.