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This is a question Tightwads

There's saving money, and there's being tight: saving money at the expense of other people, or simply for the miserly hell of it.

Tell us about measures that go beyond simple belt tightening into the realms of Mr Scrooge.

(, Thu 23 Oct 2008, 13:58)
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It's true
we have to completely destroy all our waste to make sure no-one tries to claim they had bought it, and it made them ill.

You have to be careful with the bleach thing though, if someone rummages in your bin and gets bleach on them, they can sue you for that too.

Madness.
(, Sun 26 Oct 2008, 12:17, 4 replies)
aren't there also
laws/regulations for disposing of things like bleach correctly?
(, Sun 26 Oct 2008, 12:25, closed)
why not massively securely overkill lock the bins?
you've got to remember,allowing scavenging is a step closer to the moral and spiritual collapse of society.
(, Sun 26 Oct 2008, 12:45, closed)
we try to lock our bins...
Someone was caught taking out-of-date meat from our bins, and trying to sell it on and/or claim refunds (after it's been out of refrigeration for 24hours or longer).

But some people just break in anyway. It was getting ridiculous, the amount we were having to spend on new locks and bin repairs.

Of course, until they recently started shredding, there was a risk of confidential data going in the bins as well; so that was another reason to secure them.
(, Sun 26 Oct 2008, 19:56, closed)
It's a mad freakin world,
it really is....

I've learned quite a bit from asking this question, I tell thee!
(, Mon 27 Oct 2008, 16:35, closed)
Well, that's a bit sad, but I guess it makes a certain sense,
that's the trouble with doing something nice for the general populous, there's always some dodgy bugger who sees an opportunity for perverting it for their own personal gains.

I think we need a more 'You're an adult, take responsibility for your own life' attitude to stop such litigious nonsense.
(, Sun 26 Oct 2008, 12:56, closed)
Isn't that what receipts are for?
If you claim you bought it but can't produce a receipt, where's the proof it wasn't thrown away? Burden of proof and all that.
(, Sun 26 Oct 2008, 13:35, closed)

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