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on Thursday January 24 2019, @01:34PM
from the Hit-rock-bottom-and-keep-digging-dept dept.
from the Hit-rock-bottom-and-keep-digging-dept dept.
You know how it is, it's a Saturday so you go out into the garden for a quick interface with nature before the next 10 hr Fortnite / Netflix combo binge to find your dog has left numerous piles of digested food all over the place. What do you do? Get online to AirTasker to post a job requesting someone come over to pick up the shit. Yes, seriously, that's what they do these days when help is just a click away. Need a pack of ciggies but are "too unwell" to go get them for yourself? Airtasker! Need a couple of vibrators in a hurry? Yep, someone on there will help you. For a price. Just when we thought with Facebook that humanity had hit rock bottom. How low can we go?
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(Score: 5, Insightful) by nobu_the_bard on Thursday January 24 2019, @02:08PM (8 children)
You pay someone to do it though, right?
Humans have always done such things. In the old days I'd have paid a neighbor's kid to do it maybe. Technology just made it easier and communications made it more public.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by JoeMerchant on Thursday January 24 2019, @02:45PM (5 children)
In our town I've seen a pickup truck with "wrapped" advertising for a dog waste yard cleanup service - I couldn't resist, looked up the website, they want to sell you a subscription service for what seems to barely cover 5 miles of driving (@ $0.55/mi) plus 30 minutes' minimum wage per bi-weekly "pickup."
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(Score: 4, Interesting) by JoeMerchant on Thursday January 24 2019, @02:49PM (3 children)
Actually, they seem to be not rare at all: https://www.google.com/search?source=hp&q=dog+waste+cleanup+service [google.com]
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(Score: 3, Informative) by nobu_the_bard on Thursday January 24 2019, @03:12PM (2 children)
Yeah there's a ton of these services.
Actually the housing authority near here contracts one such. That might seem strange, and I asked a lot of questions about it because I'd have liked a new PoE switch or two instead, but these guys work at scale and focus on efficiency - the guys clean up several large properties on a regular basis. It's unskilled part-time work that employs people otherwise hard to employ (students, illiterates, etc), which is also in the authority's interests. The guys themselves also do work for some of the neighbors apparently.
The housing authority has limited resources to stop the messes, as at least some of it is from people in neighboring properties at night (the new security cameras have gotten a few people fined at least) and some of it is wild animals; the authority takes what preventative measures it can, but there's only so much you can do within reason. The authority's maintenance crew are too valuable to waste time on this. In the end, a periodic visit by the "shit crew" keeps the lawn looking presentable for a decent cost.
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Thursday January 24 2019, @03:55PM (1 child)
Yeah, I bought a house once that had periodic giant turds appearing in the fenced backyard - it was a mystery for a few months until I saw the giant opossum.
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(Score: 2) by krishnoid on Thursday January 24 2019, @06:43PM
And you call yourself a nerd? It's right there in its entry in the Monster Manual.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 24 2019, @03:06PM
There are some out there with variants on the name Call of Doody.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by PartTimeZombie on Thursday January 24 2019, @07:06PM
I would have one of the footmen do it.
I would ask the butler to organise it though, because I don't talk to the footmen.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 24 2019, @07:47PM
In the really old days, you'd have a slave do it. Most of the ancient civilizations' economies were built on slavery.
Nowadays we're above all that, of course. Our economies are just built on getting as close to slaves as we can, with barely paid workers in sweatshops in Asia, or illegal immigrants paid under the table in the west.
I wonder if the yellow vests folks in France are shouting "Je suis Spartacus!"