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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RALPH: “I’ve always followed that old adage: Be kind to people you meet on the way up, because you’re going to meet the same people on the way down.”
ED: “Happens to me every day in the sewer.”
I call BS...typical unionized LIB big city BS...typical.
13 hours/day X 6 days/week.....
In my younger years I had 2 jobs, 49 hours/week on main job, and 12 hours/week on a part time consulting job.
But that adds up to only 61 hours/week. I was in my late 20’s early 30’s and I was totally EXHAUSTED at end of day. But I was working hard all the time, creating expert software for design of large machines and test running it on large computers which used punched cards in those days.
This dude with 78 hours/week may be simply sitting at a monitoring station, watching flow in sewer systems. Hardly very creative work, plenty of time to chat on cell phone or listen to music/radio.
I would scub a firebox or crankcase over the bilge any day of the week.
A fellow from north Jersey I worked with years ago was all hot about getting hired as a building inspector for Jersey City. He said that the bribes alone would make him wealthy!
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