KFI: The latest investigative piece from CBS 2’s David Goldstein exposes lazy city workers, who go home after short day of work but still get paid for a full 8 hours.
Goldstein followed a few L.A. city workers (who get paid by the taxpayers!) and confronted them about their lies. Here’s part of the transcript from his investigation:
“How is it that you get to leave every morning? We watched you numerous days?”
“I don’t.”
“You don’t? We watched you numerous days, sir.
Day after day.”
We watched this city of LA employee arrive at work around 6:30 in the morning.
And then just leave for home within the next two hours.
And other employees as well.
“You guys come in like 6:30 and then leave like 7:30, 8:00. Why is that?” MORE/Video
“Look for the Union fable.”
This is a common practice in Illinois politics, it’s called full time ghost pay rollers. But in Illinois, you don’t have to show up in the morning or any other time. Your check is direct deposited for you.
There are also long running contracts for state work, some of these government contracts even require you to submit a work product. Other awarded contracts, with less oversight, have an unwritten clause to hire people who don’t show up or provide a work product.
These perks and paybacks happen in every agency, Universities, state run hospitals, Boards, Commissions, regions, Districts, counties, townships and communities.
The positions are handed out to reward loyal democrats as patronage, ward committeemen, precinct workers, nepotism, favors and kick backs to Unions.
Illinois has been corrupt in these practices (and many others) for over 100 years. It still going on costing state taxpayers hundreds of $Millions.
“We can dig ditches from home on our computer!”
“So your not watching porn on the computer anymore?”
“No, no. That’s what we call ‘digging ditches’, we can do it from home, too.”
remember most if not all state and city retirement accounts are underfunded.
guess who is going to get the short end of the stick when that cookie crumbles ?
Why make em stay at work?
They aren’t gonna do a fukkin thing, anyway.
And if they get drunk at work and drive home, the City is responsible for them – better for em to get drunk at home and not drive.
Gov’t workers (generally) do about 2 hours of “work” per day – 4 if on OT.
izlamo delenda est …
Same in NJ CATO. The amount of connected folks with full time “no-show” jobs collecting a big fat pay check is amazing. Of course most of them are labeled as consulting work. Just a quick phone call and it is all legal.
City Dem – Hey Joe, what do you think of paving a few miles of road in March.
Joe – Yeah sounds good to me.
City Dem – Great. The usual $75,000 consulting fee? (paid for by taxpayers)
Joe – Yeah, that should about cover it this month. Oh and I got a little something coming your way for the election. My wife bakes a great pie, you should see the filling!”
City Dem – Ah I can’t wait to dig right in. Have a good month I’ll be back in touch soon.
Joe – Looking forward to it.
You doesn’t have to travel overseas to find that oldtyme shithole mentality!
I bet any local school district across this country pays as much for substitute teachers on an annual basis as they do their regular ones. Sick leave is treated as vacation time. This is the mind set of a lot of teachers who truly believe that the work they perform is up there with military heroes.
Somebody has to not do the non-jobs Americans won’t not do.
It’s not just gubmint. I was employed by a large communications company for some years, and most of the spoiled, well compensated, union employees were willing to give it about four hours per day. Some produced absolutely nothing and retired with generous benefits.
The two big problems in every instance are “shitty” work ethic and terrible management.
Of course NOW that I have semi-retired, I work PT for the local government;) …… yeah, now that I mention it, government is worse.
“Speaking the truth in times of universal deceit is a revolutionary act.” Geo. Orwell
@Thirdtwin – Yessiree! It’s nice not work if you can get it!
You pay UNION DUES you get UNION PROTECTION.
That’s what you pay for.
its the government job racket, similar to hitting the lottery. God bless government jobs, somebody has to do it.
Back in the 80s, my brother in law was doing some work in the Oakland hills. Every morning he noticed at a large building down on the flat land, a few hundred cars would roll into the parking lot at 8 0’clock, and roll back out a 1/2 hour later. It was the Oakland Post Office.
They are arguably doing less damage and costing the state less by going home early.
A member of the public, apparently concerned with my companies productivity, ratted me out to the boss.
I was sitting in my company truck reading a book. In a soybean field next to a river. Just beside a valve setting on our natural gas interstate pipeline. I was waiting for the passage of a ‘pig’ (internal diagnostic tool) so I could notify others of the time it passed that river crossing.
A man walking his dog veered off the riverbank (no paths, not part of any trail system) and came up to the truck and engaged me in pleasant conversation. He made note that I seemed to be enjoying my book which I readily confirmed. He never asked why I was parked in that soybean field.
Less than thirty minutes after he departed I got a call from the area manager. He asked what I was doing. Told him I was sitting on the north side of the Etowah river waiting for the smart pig to pass, and reading a book. He laughed and told me he just had a call from our Gas Control office (the 800 number on all our signs and markers) that a concerned member of the public had called them and said they had an employee “screwing off and reading a book with his feet propped up”.
He told me to tell him how the book comes out when I got to the end.
In the mid 80s I worked for a State agency as a liaison between the agency & private/public stakeholders. Although I was quite young, I held the belief I could achieve upward mobility & the rewards thereof, through hard work & dedication.
The wind up: I lasted 1 year, submitted my resignation, and hightailed it outta there into the private sector, vowing to never again work for any gov’t agency (regardless of benefits/guaranteed lifetime employment/retirement).
I wasn’t necessarily smarter, more assertive or goal oriented than anyone else. I simply had a personal moral code of ethics I wasn’t willing to dispose of in exchange for a paycheck.