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Not really. My co-worker's husband works in construction and gets huge bonuses that end up being more than her yearly compensation. The biotech company I interned gave for huge bonuses as well in addition to amazing benefits. A few of my undergrad friends are CPAs, they get annual bonuses most people could only dream of. You really think most private sector professionals on LI are working in Walmart retail or the local pizza joint making peanut salaries?!
I am in sales so I don't get a year end bonus, I need to earn mine. I don't think huge year end bonuses are the norm in corporate America, they are more the exception
Not really. My co-worker's husband works in construction and gets huge bonuses that end up being more than her yearly compensation. The biotech company I interned gave for huge bonuses as well in addition to amazing benefits. A few of my undergrad friends are CPAs, they get annual bonuses most people could only dream of. You really think most private sector professionals on LI are working in Walmart retail or the local pizza joint making peanut salaries?!
My wife, I, our neighbors and sons friends were or are all in the private sector and none get bonuses more than a potential months pay (and that is rare and certainly rare in the last 5 years). If you want to get anecdotal, I'll put mine and my friend's experience against your co-worker's husband and some CPAs. Guess the biotech comp. had bonus money since they had interns doing the work (j/k, couldn't resist)!
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Politicians and their support staff also get paid housing, access to private jets, and even better healthcare and retirement benefits than Long Island public sector workers. There are members of congress who even get "free" service from nutritionists at Mayo Clinic.
He got the housing because he was in the military (doctors on air force one are active Air Force). No private jets. Lb for Lb he made far LESS than his bro the superior officer on LI. To add insult to injury, he was also shipped off to Afghanistan twice. The Lt. barely dips his toe in Hempstead.
He got the housing because he was in the military (doctors on air force one are active Air Force). No private jets. Lb for Lb he made far LESS than his bro the superior officer on LI. To add insult to injury, he was also shipped off to Afghanistan twice. The Lt. barely dips his toe in Hempstead.
Oh please, your military doctor friend is not being compensated poorly, even if he's making "far less" than the LI officer. Being a military doctor he also had his medical education paid for in addition to his housing.
As for the injury I go back to what I said- politicians and military get even better healthcare and retirement benefits than LI police. If I was injured in Afghanistan I'll take the better healthcare benefits over the higher six figure salary. Making $300K/year is not the main priority of military personnel. You really think all public service workers are in it for the money? If so, I'd make more sense to go into less stressful, lucrative field like finance before the military, healthcare, or law enforcement.
True. Think of the resentment a new hire is going to have when they're working 5 years making base salary less then a McDonalds manager makes, while some guy just waiting to retire is making 150+ and driving an Escalade to work.
That is part of why the crime lab/DNA lab total fiasco happened which resulted in its closure. Resentment between the low paid civilian workers and the ridiculously overpaid police workers. Plus unqualified police workers wanting all the OT and chasing out the civilian workers who actually were trained and went to college for forensic investigation. What are we left with? Criminals let off because of the suspicion of shaky lab results. Numerous lawsuits against Nassau for the taxpayers to pay for. All DNA being sent to an outside lab at a premium price. And a crying shame.
Yes, keep giving these schmoes 100Ks of OT and discourage new blood with a ridiculously low frozen wage! That's the way they want it and their union and the politicians has fixed it that way for them instead of saying no you cannot have it! Who knows if they are even working that OT or just billing it? It was pretty easy for that Nassau cop to bang his GF every night in Nassau instead of go on assigned patrol for crying out loud. Sure nobody missed him until his GF sued Nassau County. Everybody just let him get away with it. Face it, we are chumps. Nobody can legitimately do $200K of OT and have a life if you add it up. This is BS to enrich the few and screw the many (taxpayers) as usual.
Not bitter at all. Realistic is more like it and responding to a specific post (which I'm sure you didn't read). Add your own literary affectation though. Makes your one line post seem so profound.
Oh please, your military doctor friend is not being compensated poorly, even if he's making "far less" than the LI officer. Being a military doctor he also had his medical education paid for in addition to his housing.
As for the injury I go back to what I said- politicians and military get even better healthcare and retirement benefits than LI police. If I was injured in Afghanistan I'll take the better healthcare benefits over the higher six figure salary. Making $300K/year is not the main priority of military personnel. You really think all public service workers are in it for the money? If so, I'd make more sense to go into less stressful, lucrative field like finance before the military, healthcare, or law enforcement.
Puh-leeze. Ask someone on the VA backlog how "lucrative" their medical has been. As for "med school." He earned it one way or the other and served in combat more than twice and still makes LESS than a LI cop. BTW the LI cop gets WAY BETTER MEDICAL than a VA hospital. He gets to go to LIJ in Manhasset. I'm done. This is ridiculous.
Puh-leeze. Ask someone on the VA backlog how "lucrative" their medical has been. As for "med school." He earned it one way or the other and served in combat more than twice and still makes LESS than a LI cop. BTW the LI cop gets WAY BETTER MEDICAL than a VA hospital. He gets to go to LIJ in Manhasset. I'm done. This is ridiculous.
My SO works for the VA. You clearly know nothing about the VA with all your bashing of it, ignorantly assuming that the services and treatment are lousy because it's federal run. And VA doctors make just as much money as doctors in private hospital systems.
Comment of someone who is completely out of excuses and drivel. OK, you're done. Are you going home and taking your ball with you too?
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You really think all public service workers are in it for the money? If so, I'd make more sense to go into less stressful, lucrative field like finance before the military, healthcare, or law enforcement.
