Who’s son or nephew was it that took home $271,000?
I doubt that it was Juan Doe.
And they claim no one wants to do this work.
The controversy surfaced in 2016 when Transparent California, a watchdog group, publicized system service worker Liang Zhao Zhang’s $271,000 pay in the previous year, calling it “outrageous and irresponsible.”BART claims that none of the other
Zhang quickly gained international fame, or infamy, as news outlets, cable TV commentators, New York and London tabloids and websites blasted him and BART. KTVU reviewed surveillance video and reported that Zhang took overly long breaks behind closed doors in a room at Powell Street Station.
BART officials said then and now that Zhang legitimately earned his pay by working long and hard and completed the work expected of him. He managed to rack up so much overtime by accepting nearly every extra shift offered, either because seniority required that it be offered to him or because no one else wanted the additional hours. …
Not only that, but if the $162,050 was pure overtime, that means regular yearly pay is $108,950, or over $50 per hour.