Posted on 05/12/2019 8:22:36 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
”This is about stealing. This is about fraud. This is about people saying they work and charging the taxpayers when they didn’t work. It’s stealing. It’s criminal,” the governor said during a news conference at his midtown Manhattan office. “So this has nothing to do with overtime. It has to do with theft and fraud, and that’s criminal.”
...Recently retired LIRR employee Thomas Caputo claimed he worked an additional 3,864 hours to rake in $344,147 in overtime pay in 2018 for a grand paycheck of $461,646, according to the Empire Center.
Another LIRR worker, Marco Pazmino, put in for 4,157 overtime hours, quadrupling his $55,000 yearly salary.
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This reminds me of the Powell Street BART Station (San Francisco) janitor “supposedly working” nearly around the clock and raking in something north of $250k per year, complete with security camera footage of his daily entry and exit to his janitor’s closet to sleep. When the BART General Manager was on a local TV show and they sprung what this guy was doing on her, she was speechless, got up, took off her mike and walked off the set. No better indication of management guilt than that!
The thing we, as non-government employee citizens have to come to grips with is that virtually every job in government is primarily a “jobs program.” Employment is more important by far that whatever jobs they do. It’s how the RATs are able to perpetuate their control once they have gained it, and how it’s almost impossible, once they are entrenched to get them out of office.
Notice how the Union Rep tries to justify the theft by his members by bringing up the overpaid consultants. The truth of the matter is, all of them are screwing the taxpayer. It does not matter whether it’s some blue-collar worker or some consultant in a $3,000. suit.
Arrest the supervisor who approved, and signed his time cards/time sheets.
They worked 116 hours a week?
With 7 hours left each, after working, how did they sleep, take car of basic needs, care for their children, go to doctor/dentist, vacation?
They auto as heck did not work 7 days a week either, which is the only way they could have acquired those hours...
Thanks DUMBGRUNT. That kind of talk will be a big hit at the ballot box.
And unions.
De blah blah blah zee 0’s wife has about $850 million unaccounted for so.........
Pumping public sector pension payouts is not unusual, and happens most everywhere. Seniority gets first bid for overtime, on the easiest gigs. This has been going on for decades.
The final indignity when I returned home in Feb 2002 was a LAYOFF Notice delivered by FedEx. No phone call or "head's up". It turns out that my slave labor was generating a lot of money to cover a room full of other IDLE employees. The "startup" shut the doors in mid Feb 2002 and the cash flow stopped. I was no longer a "useful" cash cow and was rewarded appropriately.
A small measure of revenge followed. I tracked down a new $1 million contract with an auto manufacturer. The prior manager called wanting "a piece of it". Without hesitation I said, "piss off".
They’re obviously not at work anything close to 100 hours. Check their phones and find the truth.
Management fail. Big time. Whether thru laziness, intimidation, getting a cut, whatever it is; management failed. People will push things as far as they can always and it’s the job of management to cut that crap out. Decent people wouldn’t do that in the first place, but not all people are decent.
That's gotta be worth something..../s
Poor Charlie
Based on an old contract I once had:
Worked Hours 76 Hours
Paid Hours 111.5 Hours
1. If Scheduled Mon-Fri and working Sunday OverTime each hour worked would get an over in Overtime Pay
2. I would get 1/2 Hour as Overtime pay until I hit 57 Hours worked.
3. Once I hit 57 hours worked each hour worked would get an hour in Overtime Pay.
4. I think but cannot quote for sure, that one of my contracts had a higher Overtime rate if over 65 hours was worked.
Between the various rates and what their wage scale is (and that’s got to be high!) they can really pull the money.
So the question is are they talking Worked Hours verus Hours Paid?
Goodness gave myself a headache trying to remember the numbers.
There’s a reason I retired. LOL
Sunday 8 Hours Wkd 8 Straight & 8 x 1 Overtime (8)
Monday 12 Hours Wkd 12 Straight & 4 x .5 Overtime (2)
Tues 12 Hours Wkd 12 Straight & 4 x .5 Overtime (2)
Weds 12 Hours Wkd 12 Straight & 4 x .5 Overtime (2)
Thurs 12 Hours Wkd 12 Straight & 4 x .5 Overtime (2)
Fri 12 Hours Wkd 12 Straight & 1 x .5 Overtime (.5)
& 11 x 1 Overtime (11)
Sat 8 Hours Wkd 8 Straight & 8 x 1 Overtime (8)
So... 76 Hours Wkd
Sunday 8 Straight & 8 x 1 Hours (Double)
Mon 12 Straight & 4 x 1/2 Hours
Tue 12 Straight & 4 x 1/2 Hours
Wed 12 Straight & 4 x 1/2 Hours
Thu 12 Straight & 4 x 1/2 Hours
Fri 12 Straight & 1 x 1/2 Hour & 11 x 1 Hours (Double)
Sat 8 Straight & 8 x 1 Hours (Double after 57 Hours wkd)
PAID HOURS: 111.5
This has been going on for fifty years!
I worked for years at a well known hospital where the physicians and surgeons don't make that much....for 60 hour work weeks!
And dig a little deeper to find evidence of kickbacks.
This kind of thing is baked in to many government related types of work at the Federal, State, and Local levels.
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