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This NYC sewer worker made over $530K last year
nypost.com ^ | October 5, 2018 | Nolan HicksĀ andĀ Carl Campanile

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; US: New York
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To: entropy12

That guy barely has the time to eat, sleep, shower, and change clothes if he’s clocking 78 hours a week for a year.

I’ll betcha if he could work out a deal like that, he wasn’t working all that hard inside a just a 40-hour week.


61 posted on 10/07/2018 2:07:53 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: Gay State Conservative

If the stationary engineer can prove he was at his post/on duty for the hours he logged and his work was getting done, I’m sure no one would bat an eye.

I’d guess the trick is to catch him in a lie about it.


62 posted on 10/07/2018 2:16:47 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: Gay State Conservative

If the stationary engineer can prove he was at his post/on duty for the hours he logged and his work was getting done, I’m sure no one would bat an eye.

I’d guess the trick is to catch him in a lie about it.


63 posted on 10/07/2018 2:16:47 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: jmacusa
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64 posted on 10/07/2018 2:17:36 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (I've Never Owned Slaves...You've Never Picked Cotton.End Of "Discussion".)
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To: clarissaexplainsitall

I’ve been there, done that. Not for an entire year but about 8 months of it. Sometimes I would cover someone else’s Shift and do 20 hours at a time in the same week as the 12’s at the Water Plant.


65 posted on 10/07/2018 2:17:44 PM PDT by mabarker1 (Congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!!)
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To: jmacusa

“Bang! Zoom! To the moon!!!”


66 posted on 10/07/2018 2:20:04 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: BradyLS
“Bang! Zoom! To the moon!!!”


67 posted on 10/07/2018 2:21:18 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: lowbridge

"Hello, ball!"

68 posted on 10/07/2018 2:22:40 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: lowbridge

“I am Bhavesh Patel, stationary engineer. I own a mansion and a yacht.”


69 posted on 10/07/2018 2:23:04 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: dfwgator

LOL! Too awesome!


70 posted on 10/07/2018 2:28:43 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: dfwgator

LOL! Too awesome!


71 posted on 10/07/2018 2:28:43 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: lowbridge
Bhavesh Patel, a stationary engineer, clocked 1,992 overtime hours on top of his 2,086 regular hours, the city confirmed Friday.

One of Patel's neighbors claims he is not even a citizen

72 posted on 10/07/2018 2:28:53 PM PDT by montag813
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To: Gay State Conservative

Great stuff. “A string of poloponies’’.


73 posted on 10/07/2018 2:39:33 PM PDT by jmacusa (Made it Ma, top of the world!'')
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To: Gay State Conservative

With an outrageously high property and uncome tax rate on top of it.


74 posted on 10/07/2018 2:43:41 PM PDT by TheWriterTX (Trust not in earthly princes....)
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To: lowbridge

Pegged my BS meter!

Suspect FRaud, anyone?


75 posted on 10/07/2018 2:46:13 PM PDT by Taxman (We will never be a truly free people so long as we have the income tax and the IRS.)
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To: lowbridge

16 hours a day for 52 weeks with no days off and supervisor approved?

How many holidays did he clock in?


76 posted on 10/07/2018 2:53:16 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
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To: lowbridge
I thought a stationary engineer was one of those guys that leans on a shovel all day.

77 posted on 10/07/2018 3:16:32 PM PDT by Right Wing Assault (Kill-googl,TWITR,FACBK,NYT,WaPo,Hlywd,CNN,NFL,BLM,CAIR,Antifa,SPLC,ESPN,NPR,NBA)
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To: jmacusa
So many classic moments. I'm glad that The Honeymooners,unlike lots of stuff from the 50’s,didn't disappear due to money and/or technological limitations.
78 posted on 10/07/2018 3:27:03 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (I've Never Owned Slaves...You've Never Picked Cotton.End Of "Discussion".)
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To: Vermont Lt

or dead


79 posted on 10/07/2018 3:29:50 PM PDT by morphing libertarian (Use Comey's Report; Indict Hillary now. --- Proud Smelly Walmart Deplorable)
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To: miss marmelstein

That wasn’t because of Nortons salary. That was because Trixie ran that household.


80 posted on 10/07/2018 3:48:18 PM PDT by NYAmerican
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