[j. earl carter]

They never tell us how many hours the guy worked. If he was doing 80 plus hours/week, then I don't see why this is a big deal. If he had only worked the regular 40 hours every week, he would still have made $100,000.

Also, he does work as a janitor cleaning public toilets in San Fransicko, god only knows the disgusting mess this man has to deal with on a daily basis: He may be underpaid.

[artichokegrower]

It comes down to being a manager and managing your resources. With his overtime compensation BART could have hired 1.5 additional workers including the benefit load to do the work on regular time. How efficient is a worker doing manual labor after 40 hours, 60 hours, 80 hours?

[bgill]

The big deal is if there’s so much need for overtime, then there’s a greater need to hire more janitors. At time and a half pay, they could have hired another janitor and saved the budget that extra .5. Poor management. Imagine how messed up the rest of the budget is.

That said, Zang is one smart guy. Nowhere else could he bring in that kind of money for that skill level.