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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    7 months ago

    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?

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      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

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        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.

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          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.

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      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.