[americanophile]

California's public employee unions: greed, graft and selfish arrogance personified.

[forgotten man]

The get plenty of other perks just for being a member of Babe Watch.

[Zuben Elgenubi]

Lifeguards are called "officer" and "battalion chief"?

Haahaahhahahhaahahaaaaaaa!!

[SWAMPSNIPER]

I worked free just for the chance to attract chicks!

[colorado tanker]

But we're worth it, right?

[hosepipe]

California sooo needs to go bankrupt..

[jrp]

Many of them play a game called pension spiking, where they bank tons of vacation and sick time to sell back and “work” a ton of OT their last year. These are all factored in to the pension calculation, i.e. (huge inflated number * 0.90) = nice fat COLA pension for life (plus medical probably).

[blueunicorn6]

Hire some Navy SEALs after they retire.

“You shot him right between the eyes! You’re a lifeguard!”

“I told him ‘No going in the water until one hour after you eat’. He didn’t listen.”

[blueunicorn6]

Hire some retiring Navy Seals and the people will run into the water with the sharks to keep from pissing off the lifeguards.

[IrishPennant]

You know, if Lexx Luther would only steal some nuclear missiles and target them at the San Andreas Fault, then California would slide...oh, wait...it's been tried...some guy in his jammies, who renounced his US Citizenship to become a world citizen, stopped him.

Sigh...