Whats the deal with Lazy Workers these days?

My friend by the name of Mike had a posting a few weeks back and this helped me remember it. The posting was an intriguing piece on why the American worker is turning away from difficult jobs and why the people who are currently doing them are not seen the way they used to be. This morning I had a Fayetteville City Worker, who works for Waste Management, drive by with there special pickup truck that usually designed for special circumstances in large limbs or furniture disposal. Our neighbors were throwing away 2x Mops, 1x lawn chair, and a couple other unidentified small items. He pulls up the large trucks probably 2 1/2 ton dump with crane, probably costs the city $90,000 for the truck and $100,000 a year in diesel fuel. Pulls the truck up, the driver doesn't even touch the ground opens the door reaches for the lever and actions the arms to pick up the debris. It does take him several attempt and all in all was here for about 8 minutes. Now if he would have gotten out of the vehicle and picked up the 2x Mops, 1x lawn chair, and a couple other unidentified small items he probably would have been here less than a minute. It just seems a rather waste of time, equipment, and man power. Maybe its not the drivers fault maybe he is unionized and the are forced to use the equipment to prevent injury. What if the mops would have sell on the ground and he was unable to get the equipment to pick it up, would he would have gotten down, probably. But in a day and age where money has to stretch further than an dollars tinsel strength it seems rather odd for the city to do this. Just my opinion what do you thank.