A Winnipeg business owner is fuming after being overcharged by a private garbage operation for something he says he didn’t do. Brad Wallin, president of Wall...
Winnipeg business owner says overflowing bin that led to overcharge staged by garbage company
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Wbg58EzOlU&ab_channel=GlobalNews
17 Comments
3c@kbin.social · 40 pts · 2y
This is why honest businesses are driven out of business. There are no penalties for the criminals.
Showroom7561@lemmy.ca · 30 pts · 2y
Police should be contacted and the WM should be investigated for this fraud. I have no doubt they've been doing this to more of their customers.
The driver in the video is CLEARLY trying setting up a scam, and the company truck is right there! Instead of doubling-down on their denial, they should have fired the driver and profusely apologize to this guy for the driver's actions!
Enkers@sh.itjust.works · 17 pts · 2y
My question would be, why is the driver doing that. Has WM created perverse incentives that make their workers want to perform that kind of behavior?
Showroom7561@lemmy.ca · 14 pts · 2y
The first thing that came to mind when I saw the video is "does the driver need to fill a quota or something?!!", so it wouldn't surprise me if that's the case. Driver getting commission off of these bin collection runs, perhaps? LOL
Enkers@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 2y
It doesn't even need to be as direct as a commission. Like, you just have an evaluation metric based on how many overflow bins are collected, then tie that in with an annual performance review.
Showroom7561@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 2y
That's even more insidious. 😱
Decq@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
If the company is reviewing people on that metric, every manager should be fired for grand incompetence. I rather wonder if the driver himself doesn't have a side business where he picks up trash for cheaper/free for friends. And to correct the number of how much kilos of garbage he's hauling, he notes a few customers as overflowed. That way the numbers add up again.
extant@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 2y
The fact that they didn't fire him which is every companies knee jerk reaction leads me to think he was instructed to do it by a manager and firing him would put the company at more risk than keeping him.
kent_eh@lemmy.ca · 17 pts · 2y
We had something similar happen a few times. We even got a padlock from the dumpster company to prevent people from dumping their crap in our bin, but the drivers never re-locked it after emptying the bin, and the lock got lost/stolen within a couple of weeks.
Showroom7561@lemmy.ca · 29 pts · 2y
That's not what happened here. The driver, on video, is clearly tampering with the bin to stage an "overfill" so the company can charge more. It's 100% fraud, and the police should have been contacted.
darganon@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 2y
Ooooh that's dirty.
Rentlar@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 2y
Do ya think so? Well I better not show you where the lemonade is made...
(For real though, super scummy and fraudulent move on the part of the trash hauling company.)
stoly@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2y
So glad that I'm not the only one who went there.
lordmauve@programming.dev · 4 pts · 2y
Sweet lemonade, mmm, sweet lemonade...
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 2y
If anyone finds an article with actual words instead of a video clip, I'd love a copy. Thanks!
LaserTurboShark69@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 2y
How very Winnipeg
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