How I know I work for the government
A custodial guy just came to my desk with new trash cans/recycling bins. He took my old ones and emptied them into the new ones, then set the new ones down for me to use.
I know better than to ask: why not just collect the old ones at the end of the day–along with the trash inside them–and drop off the empty new ones then?
Or does that violate some union rule? Some contractual mandate negotiated by the Recycling Bin Distributors’ Federation Local 1556?
Addendum: one of the cans is labeled “Landfill Waste.” The only purpose I can see in that is the comedy material it provides; Congress generates so much landfill waste that each office needs separate bins to hold it.