I am now dumping my garbage next to the security gate at my apartment complex. Pile it up where everybody can see it.
I’ve lived here for three years. When I first moved in, it took me less than a week to discover when the garbage is picked up. The garbage truck arrives some time between 4:30 and 5:00 on Friday mornings.
Yet, for the sixth time in the last two months, my apartment’s dumpster has not been emptied because some dumbass parked his car in front of it on garbage day. The dumpster is overflowing right now. If I tossed my own trash into it, it would roll off onto the ground.
Why the fuck should I have my own apartment stunk up with overflowing garbage simply because the fucking dumpster is overflowing? There’s no point in tossing my trash into the dumpster. It would just roll off and fall on the ground, and these lazy “sanitation engineers” are not going to get out of their trucks to pick it up. (Trust me, they won’t.)
So I’m just going to pile up my garbage right there where everybody can see it. And I will wait for the landlord to receive complaints. Because I have sent several e-mails to the landlord about this issue. After my first contact with the landlord about this, a warning letter was sent out to every tenant that anybody parked in front of the dumpster on garbage day would be towed. And then the landlord completely failed to follow through on that threat.
I will purchase some posterboard tomorrow, and create a poster to place atop my pile of not-in-the-dumpster trash. It will be addressed to “fellow tenants, guests, and dumbasses”. It will spell out when the garbage truck arrives, and instruct them as to when to not park their damned cars in front of the dumpster. If that doesn’t work …
A threat of towing is only as good as management’s willingness to follow through. Here at work, we have parking lots on both the north and south sides of the building. The south lot is smaller, but closer to where most people work. So if the lot is full, people just park anywhere in random places, rather than driving around the other side of the building where there is plenty of parking but a longer walk. Security sends out emails telling people to move the illegally parked cars, but nobody does. If Security would then call a tow truck and start hauling cars away, I’m sure the problem would stop in a week. But they never do, and employees know it, and continue to park wherever they want.
Shoeless, your description sounds like one at my job. I work in the kitchen, like we cooks normally do. We get our freight in, and part of the freight includes the garbage bags and other stuff the maintenance guy needs. Unfortunately, the maintenance guy doesn’t always come through the kitchen to pick up his stuff right away, so it sits there in our dry storage room.
And the young girls who work the night shift in the kitchen see that box of garbage bags that are three steps closer than the already-open box of bags on the shelf …
Why not just leave a note not he windshield pointing out that the trash can’t be emptied if (your) car is there? Some people are jackasses; others are just obtuse. Don’t assume which is which.
If you know which days trash picks up, put a pylon or barricade with a sign on it the night before so nobody parks there. There are better ways than than the approach you’re taking.
I’m starting to think my previous post (in another thread) was a mistake.
