Lynn ‘Max’ Taylor is serious about his work. For him, when he shows up to a place that is dirty with garbage, his pride and joy is to see it looking spic and span when he leaves. “I love mi job. When you go in an area, the place dirty, we leave it clean. Smell good,” Lynn tells The SWMC Insider, beaming with excitement. His team comprises three people; one who goes ahead of the truck and sorts out the garbage from the various homes. The other two act as loaders who place the garbage from the bins in the trucks.
As the driver for one of the SWMC trucks, a typical work day for him starts out around 8:00am and ends around 11:00am. Like the SWMC Operations Officer Mr. Valentine Heyliger, Lynn wants residents to take better care of how they park their vehicles along the roadways to make it easier for garbage trucks to drive into the area and collect their garbage. The SWMC has already warned that persons failing to do this will not have their garbage collected. Lynn thinks they are beginning to take this seriously. “When we will leave your garbage for a week or two weeks then you get the notice and ‘you wuk out boy, I can’t block up mi area because the garbage (won’t be collected)’,” he explains. “A lot of people are complying.”
Lynn values team work and is all about getting the job done. He wants to know that those he works with him are just as serious. “Me and you don’t have to be friends. But when you come to work, you come do your job. You will come, do your job as best as possible and when you leave, you leave. We understand that,” Lynn says.
Though he is a no nonsense person, Lynn also has a good sense of humor. In telling The SWMC Insider about the challenges of his job, Lynn, with a bit of witty sarcasm, describes what it is like sometimes dealing with pungent waste. “Sometimes you work and you don’t smell any stinking (bin). Sometimes, you come upon some nice, nice aroma, boy; good cologne,” he declares with a broad smile on his face. That ‘good cologne’ sometimes is smelt from the first bin they collect and according to him, permeates the truck for the rest of the trip. Yet, he still loves his job.
No one can doubt Lynn’s commitment to SWMC having worked here for five years, but he hopes one day, he can get an increase in pay. “A little more money is good. I think we deserve a little more money but we will wait and see,” he says.