Another post full of garbage
At the tender young age of 28 months, Small Boy has been made redundant, downsized, layed off, put on the dole. Unemployed. For quite some time now, it has been Small Boy's job to press the trash sticker onto the trash bag (I wrote here about the system by which we pay for each bag of trash we generate) before it goes to the kerb.
But Bern has decided to join cities like Basel in having official trash bags. No stickers necessary.
Anybody know of an opening for an enthusiastic but relatively unskilled apprentice?Labels: Schweizermacher
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Does that mean you won't pay for the collection of the bags anymore? How will that work?
hmm - really - what do you mean by unskilled. the picture clearly shows that sb can even multitask by holding a phone conversation and applying the sticker at the same time :-)
Kinuk - no, now instead of paying 1 Franc 40 for a sticker to put on any old trash bag we now pay 1 Franc 40 for the special bags. Actually 1 Franc 70 as they raised the rates. Plus we still pay a quarterly garbage bill to the city!
Husband - I said "relativly unskilled" didn't I?
Aww. You could buy him some cheap stickers for him to stick on the garbage bags for old time's sake. The rubbish collection staff would probably appreciate the dash of color.
I read about some country considering that procedure. It was either England or Australia (since it wasn't South Korea or Japan). I read websites from all 4 countries so things tend to run together. Anyway, maybe he can get an offshore job.
I've just tagged you ! Hope you do the meme :-)
Thanks so much for your comment. And your story does help, it is very reassuring to know that single embryo FETs can work. I'm doing my treatment in Switzerland too so it was doubly good to hear your story as sometimes I think they are being overly careful here. Phew, now I can sleep easy. Just a question of making it through the FETs until one works.
You pay a rubbish bill AND you've got to pay for the bags! Wow! That is one heck of a serious attitude towards rubbish!
Junebee - good idea about replacement stickers!
Lillian - thanks for the tag, maybe I'll try it in German
Carlynn - they are quite regulated here, which at first frustrated me, but now I look at the US (cough cough, two sets of sextuplets in one weekend, cough) and like the Swiss system just fine. But it can make you a little crazy at times, the regulations (for example, I kind of freaked out when I learned how early they freeze the fertilized eggs!)
Kinuk - I don't think it's a serious attitude towards rubbish so much as it's a serious attitude towards taxing our a$$es off!
Great reaading this
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