Performance drops after 40 hrs, consecutive 100 hr weeks equal near zero performance; sleeping.
Living wage como. Living wage.
No Really?
Let's just say he works EVERY day of the year. 4,157/365 means he put in an ADDITIONAL 11.4 hours EVERY day.
Arrest his ass immediately for fraud.
This from the man whose top aide was convicted of two counts of fraud, and one count of bribery.
These are closer to 120 manhour work weeks or 17 manhour days if working 7 days/wk. (add 40 manhr to the overtime reported, but then again, time and a half and double time rates may have accounted for some of these, so probably steady 12+ hrs daily with no days off.)
Since the pension is calculated from the 3 highest years of wages, these workers make these wild claims so as to buff up their retirement.
Amazing a simple ticket sales person makes so much money.
Cuomo has only to blame his socialist paradise
Ever heard of good management at a government-run agency? Me neither.
Really is a sad story here. After WWII, all of the privately-operated transit companies were under attack by the government via burdensome taxation and regulation. First to be taken over were New York’s subways; then when this got to critical mass at the interstate level, the private railroads on Long Island and upstate NY were basically forced to either operate passenger trains at subsidy or turn them over to government agencies including their property. Fabian socialism at work.
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.
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...
And unions.
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.
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!
This kind of thing is baked in to many government related types of work at the Federal, State, and Local levels.
Take the LIRR everyday... decent service... but way over priced.
Apparently they retire on their last two years average salary which includes OT... they are permitted unlimited OT during that period... many retire with $150,000+ annual pensions and extremely low cost health insurance. And since they are railroad employees thier SSN and pensions are not taxed by NYS.
It really is like winning the lottery.
I will nbe leaving NYS after I retire and my kids are done in college... NYS is an economic model that is about to collapse...
“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.”
Not counting weekends there is about 22 working days in any month. For 12 months that’s 264 working days a year.
The LIRR employee who claimed 3,864 overtime hours was claiming on average 14 additional hours per normal work day. If we accepted someone working 7 days a week for a year, his overtime would be 10 additional hours every day, the whole year. NO ONE actually works that much overtime.
There is a culture in New York that involves a wink & a nod on both overtime and feather bedding between the unions, the government institutions, the contractors and the politicians, and everything from agencies like the MTA and the Port Authority, to all construction and all infrastructure development is infected by it. It is not a mere MTA problem. MTA is behaving “normally” by New York City standards.
The second avenue subway costs are running about $1 billion a mile.
As POTUS I would not give NYC a federal dime for any infrastructure project.