"We are constantly hiring the buggy people, or at least we used to, and it would not work out. They'd last about two weeks and then they wouldn't show up, you wouldn't see them -- just completely undependable. When they're pushing their buggy, if they're a 10 o'clock guy he'll be here every day at 10 o'clock... and he'll do that Monday through Saturday come rain or shine on the first or the 15th or the day before Christmas - he'll be here. Soon as you give him a job, it's all over.

"The work that they do is a hell of a lot harder than what we do. They're up at the campus, you probably see them going through the frats up there -- they pick up cans. So that means that they're walking all the way here in the rain or shine and they're going to walk back to where ever they live and they're going to do it again tomorrow. They walk a good 15 miles a day doing that, so it's back-breaking work, it's hard work and yet they're doing it regularly.

"They're running a business and some of these guys manage it very well. I know one lady she told me that she's going on vacation to visit her relatives so she won't be in for 2 weeks and she did all that based on her thing. I mean she knows how to watch her money, doesn't use drugs, she doesn't drink. If you saw her on a bus, you'd think that she was on her way to an office job, except she might smell a bit because of the nature of this business."--Jay Anast

 

 

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