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Old 12-06-2017, 03:54 PM
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I happen to have a cousin that is a sanitation worker in NYC. He works on a truck and picks up the trash door to door, what we used to call a garbage man.

Granted he does work an extra shift 2-3 times/mon. Last year he made $109k. I realize FL is not NY but how much less can a TV garbage man make?

I’m all for tipping when you have something extra large or heavy that needs to disappear. I’ve given them $20 from time to time when I need something like a television picked up and dropped in the truck. But holiday tipping of the garbage man is a phenomenon I had not heard about.
I would suspect they belong to a union in NYC. Florida isn't like that and I doubt they make as much.