Dancing with the... garbage? Meet the French TikTok star who makes supercool videos while collecting trash!
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00:30Let's go!
00:34Hi Brut!
00:35It's 5.40am and we've just arrived at my work's parking lot
00:38and we're going to start the day.
00:40I didn't finish high school well
00:42because I was doing too many stupid things
00:44and I wasn't interested in high school.
00:46I'm not a fan of classes, but I wanted to work
00:49so I got my driver's license
00:51and then I found this job
00:54and I started working here.
00:58I started here in 2015
01:03and I've been here ever since.
01:11We're on the walkway behind the garbage truck.
01:15We hold our feet like this
01:17and then we go get the bags over there.
01:27And then?
01:28And then we take them
01:30and throw them in.
01:32I make videos to show
01:36another side of this job
01:38because often people
01:40pick up the shit, it's dirty.
01:43But actually, no.
01:44It's not because we're doing a dirty job
01:46that we can't laugh.
01:50Oh! Holy cow!
01:51Go, go, go.
01:58Oh!
02:10We sing, we dance.
02:12We don't see the day go by.
02:13Even before coming to work,
02:15I know I'm going to shoot with him.
02:17It's great.
02:18We know we're always going to laugh.
02:19There's never a day when he's mad.
02:21It's pure joy to work with a colleague like that.
02:24There are a lot of young people
02:25who come into the service thanks to him.
02:28Some people are starting to recognize me.
02:30It makes me happy.
02:31Especially right now with COVID.
02:35And it encourages me to make other videos.
02:37Come on, get in.
02:44Hello, yes.
02:47I didn't know him before.
02:49In fact, the little article
02:51in the magazine La Voix de Courcage and others
02:53made me know him.
02:54When he walks down the street,
02:55in front of the store,
02:56we're happy because
02:57that's what I was saying.
02:58It's little videos that do good
03:00and that make people happy.
03:02It's nice.
03:25What comes to my mind the most
03:27in my comments is
03:28thank you for what you do.
03:30Respect to you.
03:32And also in relation to COVID,
03:34we didn't stop working.
03:38For me,
03:39I love this job.
03:41I love it.
03:43And in life,
03:44there are no sub-professions.
03:45The most important thing is
03:46what happens at the end of the month.
03:55I will be back.
04:07It's physical.
04:08We take the bags.
04:09People don't realize
04:10they put things in the bag like that,
04:12but they don't give a fuck.
04:13It's collecting.
04:16It's garbage in the recyclables.
04:18What do they put in there?
04:20They put black bags,
04:21they put shit in there.
04:22What's in there? People are in pain.
04:30Do you often have to work behind the scenes?
04:32All the time.
04:33Every time we get a job, that's all we do.
04:39But I'm offered a job at 2,000, 2,500 euros.
04:43No, I'm not interested. I'm fine where I am.
04:45I love this job, I love it.
04:46What's it like to be a ripper in 2020?
04:49That's it. The smile.