Posted on 10/07/2018 12:19:54 PM PDT by lowbridge
The streets of New York aren’t paved with gold, but the sewers apparently are.
An employee in the city’s Department of Environmental Protection walked off with an astonishing $539,098 paycheck last year, according to records released by the Empire Center think tank.
Bhavesh Patel, a stationary engineer, clocked 1,992 overtime hours on top of his 2,086 regular hours, the city confirmed Friday.
That means he worked an average of 78 hours a week for 52 weeks, assuming he never called out sick or took a day of vacation.
His pay was also bolstered by back pay from a new contract settled after a 10-year dispute.
“New York’s sewers run 24 hours a day with more than 1 billion gallons of wastewater and these engineers protect public health by ensuring it all flows in the right direction,” said DEP spokesman Ted Timbers, trying to explain the eye-popping figure.
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No wonder Norton always had a nicer apt. than Ralph.
I disagree. It's not reasonable. I know a lot of internists and pediatricians who work those hours, went to school for many years - then post-graduate training, save lives, and don't make half that.
I know that you can push up hourly wages by working holidays and the sort, but $110 per hour?
An hourly employee making as much as a good full time contracted Engineer?
This union contract needs to go.
I do not possess a villa in France, a yacht or a string of poloponies
Don’t mess with the Stationary Engineers Union.
That’s over 11 hrs every day of the years. Raise you hand if you believe that. Didn’t think so.
Yah,but Alice was prettier...and funnier.
Payday is on Friday.
Dont bite your fingernails.
It is just hard for me to believe your work quality is good if you are working 6 days a week for 12 hour stretches.
Hang on! He's a New York City sewer worker (as in "don't kill the job") and he makes more than the President of the United States and 95% of this nation's heart surgeons!!!
Please tell me you're joking!
What I have always imagined NYC to be: one massive sewage discharging continuously from all the people packed in like sardines.
Couldn’t they hire another engineer and not pay double overtime?
What kind of housing does $530K get you in NYC?
They flush down?
Geez, who knew?
(Thanks for the heads up.)
I had a serious problem with fingernail biting prior to going on my first Navy cruise. My Youngster Cruise as a USNA midshipman found me working in the main engine room of the USS Coronado, LPD 11. I got along well with the snipes: my size meant that I was small enough to scrape down the inside of the firebox ... and they also taught me how to disassemble and repair bilge pumps.
After my first day with my hands in the bilge sludge up to the elbows, I never had a problem with biting my fingernails again ...
A story that's been evolving recently here in Massachusetts;dozens of Massachusetts State Police Troopers have been indicted by the Feds for claiming overtime pay for shifts they never worked or for shifts that they left early and for writing "phantom tickets" as part of a fraud conspiracy.
Food for thought in this case perhaps?
He had quite the work ethic and all things considered, it’s reasonable.
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Sorry but, for government employees, “ON THE CLOCK” does NOT EQUAL “WORKING”. This is an inexcusable scam and ripoff of the taxpayers.
Love Alice.
7 years ago the SF Gen Hospital Police Chief with O.T. made over $500,00.
They also had a Chinese BART station sweep-up guy who made over $350,000; he’d come in before sun-up, disappear into a closet (internet?), then re-emerge only after sundown, only then going home. He did it every day for over 2 years.
Don't know if it's still true but IIRC you had to spend at least $1,000 per square foot in Manhattan to get a condo or co-op worth having.So that's 530 square feet.
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