I unfortunately live in New York. This is par for the course in NY. Corruption everywhere. A few years ago they found out everyone retiring from the LIRR was retiring on disability. Punching tickets is a health hazard.
Knew a guy who was retired Metro North management.
12K+ a month in retirement and full whack bennies.
Why limiting government is necessary, and will never happen. Politicians reward their buddies with jobs like this, which you and I will never see.
So a lot of taxpayer money would be saved if he dies.
No punishment, again. He should do a decade in prison and all of his assets seized. Alas, government corruption, even when exposed, is amply rewarded.
Some San Fran accountant with no girlfriend one year got a real bug up his as$ and did some rigorous investigating:
Video showed one Chinese BART (San Fran train) sweep-up worker would come into work at 6 am, then stay EVERY day at work, including weekends, until 10 pm or so —mmmmassive overtime.
The custodian was getting something over $300,000 per year:
The guy would disappear into a utility closet (which turned out to have internet) and simply staying there, never coming out at all.
Great scam; he performed NO work, and no one was checking.
I’m guessing that he was supposed to be at the yard or wherever and be “on call” for various things.
“What the heck! Whether I’m at the yard watching T.V. or at home - what’s the difference!?”
I was at a government facility doing work on the weekends. Several government guys just hanging out - looking at youtubes, etc.
I mentioned it to my client - their boss. “Yeah. Well they need to be here in case of an emergency. I’ve tried to get them to do some other stuff around here, but then the union comes down on my back. If you push them too hard they’ll nail you for abuse. It sure would be nice though to just get at least 4 good hours of work out of a 10-hour day!”
‘Female’ world soccer cup champ nigel rapinoe demands equal pay. Hell, I demand equal pay for this one. :-)
Only sitting at home? I am surprised they didn’t find him at another job.
Amazing how this guy goes unscathed, but if a non government working peon screws up his taxes, he is facing a process that will consume him for years and cost him everything he has.
Don’t cheat the government, unless you work for the government and know people
As I have written many times before . . .
It’s YOU. The Problem is YOU.
Government workers of all kinds, at all levels.
IRS, Congressional, State, County, Town, Village, Cops, Firemen, Teachers, Public Utility, Public “Authority”, and on and on and on . . .
(ONE exception: Uniformed Military. May G-d bless and keep our Heroes.))
“Wait there buddy, but I earned it”
No you didn’t.
You stole it. Willingly and with full knowledge, just because you “blanked” out about it and refused to openly acknowledge it doesn’t make you innocent.
You stole it. Along with your other public employee leeches.
So, how many Freepers fit the category?
Yeh took a recent round trip Hicksville to Penn station $28.00. Couldn’t get a seat on the return trip. Pay more and get less. Case in point.
Shocking and unprecedented!!!
Metro (Feather Your) Nest Commuter Railroad... A good way to get to NYC, it’s cheaper but will take longer. I used use it when I had to go to the city. Cheaper than driving...or Amtrak..
This is exactly the labor culture infused in every industry and enterprise in New York metro area having anything to do, public or private, with infrastructure - whether in transportation or construction.
That culture is part of why infrastructure developments in New York City are the most expensive (per mile) in the world to build and maintain.
Either no federal funds for anything transportation or infrastructure related should go to New York, or those funds that do go should be reduced to no more than a national median amount, per mile, that would be spent anywhere else in the country. New York’s waste should not be subsidized by the rest of the country.
You know it’s all true because his wife was quick to rush out and defend the hardest working man ever on the LIRR.