Posted on 12/28/2024 3:37:04 PM PST by Libloather
New York City’s biggest overtime hogs for a second straight year are mostly rank-and-file workers responsible for tackling the Big Apple’s $6 billion-plus migrant crisis, The Post has learned.
Fifty-one of the 100 city employees who racked up the most OT during the fiscal year ending June 30 work at the Departments of Social Services and Homeless Services, and their duties include assisting migrants, an examination of city payroll records shows.
Each worker accumulated at least 1,851 hours in extra pay.
Leading the way was Kashwayne Burnett, a DSS bookkeeper who worked 3,303 hours of overtime in the agency’s Manhattan office. That comes to roughly 14 hours a day, seven days a week. The 10-year veteran’s $164,760 in overtime pay more than tripled his $60,445 base salary.
Bardhan Pijush, a DSS caseworker, was second with 3,137 extra hours, followed by Gavin McAuley, a DHS housekeeper who clocked 2,664 hours of OT.
In the previous fiscal year, 47 employees at both departments were among the 100 who worked the most OT, a huge leap from fiscal 2022 when only three workers made the list.
The migrant crisis “has been a major drain” on all municipal resources, but the DSS and DHS’s overtime hours and payouts are “absolutely staggering,” City Councilman Robert Holden (D-Queens) told The Post.
“We simply can’t continue down this path,” he said. “It has to end, and taxpayers are sick of it.”
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If that’s just for the overtime hours, the real cost is significantly higher. People can’t afford their medications, are seeing their life savings dwindle and lose value, and are wondering why they worked so hard and saved their earnings just so the government could destroy their buying power and pull the ladder they were trying to climb out from underneath them.
With other people’s money, that is.
Not to mention stupid. “Sustainable,” a word often applied in numerous instances such as food, fuel, etc. this is absolutely “unsustainable.”
Pinochet had the solution. It should work on more than just communists.
I do not believe that any government worker is working 100-hour-plus weeks throughout the entire year, no vacations. I just don’t believe it. Huge fraud going on.
“ Kashwayne Burnett, a DSS bookkeeper who worked 3,303 hours of overtime in the agency’s Manhattan office. That comes to roughly 14 hours a day, seven days a week. The 10-year veteran’s $164,760 in overtime pay more than tripled his $60,445 base salary.”
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“WORKED 3,303 hours of overtime”? No way! At best he “hung around the office” for an extra 3,303 hours. More likely he “signed timesheets” CLAIMING to have been present for 3,303 extra hours. Government is overrun with such scamming parasites.
Government at all levels only rewards policy failures. That’s the dystopian condition our society embraces.
In the 70’s I worked on a rig in the oil field, we worked 100 hours a week, it was grueling hard work. There is NO FRIKKIN WAY these Gang Banging pussies with badges worked 100 hours a week. Sounds like a Major Financial Fraud and Money Laundering.
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