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The guy is making hay while he can. I had a contract job where they once made the mistake of asking me to work as much as possible.
Hourly Engineering rate and 70 hour weeks (for overtime) plus another 28 hours at my second job damn near killed me. No regrets in hind site. The contract ended but I left almost no money on the table.
So good for him and he is getting paid well for a job most people probably don't want. His hourly rate may also be higher because of longevity.
On the con side, it seems like tax payer $ could be saved if even just one person were added. Of course, he probably doesn't want someone hired.
In this case, the tax payers are the stake holders instead of the owners of a private company. The owners of a private company would want to minimize expense and maximize profit and would be much better in tune with the costs. The state Gov't doesn't pay as close attention as it should. I would bit this isn't the only example of lots of OT being paid. His pension will also be highly skewed to his last 3-years of salary, I believe. So he will want those to be as high as he can get them.
Well when it is all said and done, there is probably not a lot left over after California, San Francisco and the US government gets through with him!!!
And wait till he starts collecting his pension. He'll be in clover then ( that is unless the fund is bust at that point).
The first thought I had was maybe he is retiring next year. Racking up the OT/Holiday hours is a common scam in the last couple years of employment for a lot of public sector workers where I live (Chicago).
My second thought was, hey, maybe somebody that looks like this guy is splitting the shifts with him. I mean this type of job would require relatively little training, right? If they aren't working in crews who would know.
My third thought was how is working this much good for a persons health? Bet this costs even more on the backside via health insurance unless he just up and dies of a heart attack.
Well, at any rate, good for him. Don't hate the player, hate the system. Clearly someone is not managing this system well.
A friend is a software engineer that lives in the San Fran area, and this janitor is making more than him by a mile! I'm forwarding this article to him. Should have gone to janitor school!
A friend is a software engineer that lives in the San Fran area, and this janitor is making more than him by a mile! I'm forwarding this article to him. Should have gone to janitor school!
I'm a software engineer in SF, and yes he makes more than me. I definitely don't get paid over time! Lol
Thats nice.. Now lets see how long he lives. Guy is probably working himself into an early grave. If you can't make end meet on 40-45 hours per week its time to look for something else. Theres no reason to be some goofball SLAVE to the greedy capitalist corporate machine
1420.73 regular hours
24 hours of protected sick leave
192 of vacation hours
48 hours of holiday hours
3.27 of administrative leave
For overtime he did:
63 hours of "holiday work"
1821.53 hours of time and a half (1.5 for regular day off 1).
601 hours of double time (2 for regular day off 2)
He signs up for every possible overtime apparently according to better articles.
So it looks like he did 3905 hours of actual janitorial work. Or just over 75 hours a week on average.
The phrase "Don't hate the player, hate the game" comes to mind. I don't begrudge the individual for maximizing his income on the pay plan he's been offered to work under. I do begrudge a public sector institution that's so reckless with the public's money that they'd pay well over a quarter million dollars for that few hours of unskilled labor, whether it be to one person or 5.
Seventy.
Bucks.
An.
Hour.
For one man's labor as a janitor. That's what this system ended up paying.
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