[Opinionated Blowhard]

It should not have required an investigation to “discover” this. Amtrak has the strongest unions in the country and its workers milk the company to the point of this type of outright fraud. It has been going on for decades. Even worse is the fact that you practically have to kill someone to get fired from an Amtrak union job. Show up drunk or high, punch your supervisor, loaf and sleep during work? Not a problem.

[Sacajaweau]

surprise!!

[1Old Pro]

It’s ALL about stealing more from taxpayers, expand overtime in last 3 years and your defined benefit pension provides a lifetime of income at 50% more than you would get otherwise.

Any wonder why these cities and towns are being bankrupted by unions?

[Rummyfan]

I'm shocked. Shocked!

[Texas Eagle]

Forty hours overtime in a single day??? No wonder those trains keep going off the rails. Those poor people are exhausted!

New rules. No more than 30 hours overtime per day per employee.

[prof.h.mandingo]

The article alludes to a possible answer. At the end of the year ALL federal agencies have to have their entire budget spent or it will or may get cut the next year. There is a rush to spend all the excess money on anything they can. I was a student worker in college and saw it happen at my job. That was over 40 years ago. Everyone in government is aware of this crap and no one has ever addressed the problem.

[SMARTY]

I think management is complicit in a lot of this.

I have a friend who is retired from the RR. She was in management and VERY pro Labor.... She got annual bonuses that were greater then MY annual earnings.

She supported/defended EVERYTHING the unions did.. and SHE was management.

Maybe people like HER were getting a cut TOO, because without management looking the OTHER WAY on some of this... how could it continue?

[Timocrat]

One would think that the payroll systems would have checks in them to catch this sort of thing. It’s pretty elementary programming to stop this.

[originalbuckeye]

Massive fraud in a Government entity???? You’re kidding! /s

[V_TWIN]

Never understood why the fed gov is in the rail business anyway.

[Blue Collar Christian]

WOW! Government employees stealing. What next?

[I want the USA back]

At one time, when there were truly professional programmers, something called “controls” were inserted into programs. There were checks for reasonability. So if someone reported zero or more than 24 hours in one day, the data was rejected.

[The Great RJ]

Doesn’t anyone notice this fraud? It seems that government projects are never audited and even when rampant fraud is revealed nothing happens.

[hal ogen]

Fire the offenders and their supervisors, seize their assets and exile them Enough pandering to criminals.

[Rodamala]

http://freerepublic.com/focus/news/3303201/posts?page=21#21

[timestax]

ping