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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...

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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!

[–] [email protected] 17 points 7 months ago (2 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Has WM created perverse incentives that make their workers want to perform that kind of behavior?

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

That's even more insidious. 😱

[–] Decq 2 points 7 months ago

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 9 points 7 months ago

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.