Dustmen are affectionately known as 'garbos' in Australia. When I was a student in the 70s, I worked as a garbo during the summer holidays. This was before the days of wheelie bins, and we had to retrieve people's garbage from their backyards and carry it out to the truck. It was hard, hot, dirty work, for which we were paid the princely sum of $103 a week (before tax). One small perk was that, at Christmas time, people would leave gifts for their garbos, usually beer. So we'd all go home on a Friday with our pay packets and a big sack of beer.