Do I want to know what you're doing there?

[Pixelated]

Was doing some laundry yesterday and took the opportunity to also toss some cat litter into the dumpster out back.

I pushed the auto-open for the back door and stepped out towards the dumpster ... where there was a young guy loitering (he could not have been a tenant as this building is for those age 50 and older).

He scuttled around the edge of the two dumpsters away from me. I tossed the litter into the nearest one and then forced the door shut (when you use the auto-open the door usually stays open for a minute or two and then closes quite slowly. I don't seem to have damaged the mechanism as it's working fine today ... but I decided prudence was the better part of valour last night and I didn't want the door doing its slow-as-a-snail closure.

[taxguykarl]

Probably doing some dumpster diving. Do advise building security. And warn the other residents to shred identifying docs. Several times when I took out the tax office's garbage I noticed that some extras from Breaking Bad (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breaking_Bad) were watching me. As that garbage would often include customer files (identity theft gold) I was glad to have shredded that stuff before hand (and stirred in used coffee grounds

[Ironclad Alibi]

I was glad to have shredded that stuff before hand (and stirred in used coffee grounds

That was so nice of you. They can make some crappy coffee while piecing together the shreds.

[Seanette]

Probably doing some dumpster diving. Do advise building security. And warn the other residents to shred identifying docs. Several times when I took out the tax office's garbage I noticed that some extras from Breaking Bad (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breaking_Bad) were watching me. As that garbage would often include customer files (identity theft gold) I was glad to have shredded that stuff before hand (and stirred in used coffee grounds

Maybe used kitty litter? (evil grin)

[taxguykarl]

Maybe used kitty litter? (evil grin)

I do that with personal stuff at home

[drunkenwildmage]

glad to have shredded that stuff before hand (and stirred in used coffee grounds

When I worked at the pizza place in the 90s we caught one of our competitors dumpster diving for our used make line order slips. They were just a carbon copy of what was on the order sheet, so they had the full order, plus the customers address and phone number on them. After that Management had us put a can of bleach water at the end of our make line to put the used order slips in.

[EricKei]

dwm - Moot point now, but that's illegal/against Health regs, IIRC. You can't have bleach anywhere even remotely near food, nor around customers, unless all of the food has been sealed away in another area (such as a walk-in cooler). I understand the need to do something about the issue, but that manager went about it the wrong way.

[drunkenwildmage]

EricKei. - That's actually wasn't a manager's call, that was corporate policy. The corporate stores (which I worked for) were require to do it. Not sure if the franchises had to, altho we assumed they did. Wasn't a problem in the 90s. Whenever we got inspected, it was never mentioned in the report, and we never hide it. Don't know about it now, but with the advancement of computers to track the order, probably no longer be an issue.