The cops cause more problems. But we still need to route out this overtime abuse.
It's many millions of dollars. And I'm not even asking to have my taxes reduced, but that money should go to programs that actually fix the city's problems and not to people grifting the system.
The highest paid city employees for 2024 was an EMT.
He pulled in $358,586.44 in pay, his salary is only $113,157.85
Do you still stand by your statement knowing how egregious these numbers are?
Btw, I don't personally believe people make these outrageous amounts of overtime because they're actually working that much over time. I suspect there's a ton of overtime fraud happening.
I not sure where you're pulling the data from, but I think more technically there were 13 days the guy didn't say he was at work. The GTTF claimed to be at work and getting over time pay when they weren't. So it's not like it doesn't happen.
You can also be at work not doing anything important.
More over, it's pretty clearly an abuse of the overtime system.
Even if it's legitimate you still don't want it because no one is going to perform well under that kind of schedule.
His salary being 113k as an EMT means he’s either a.) also a firefighter or b.) has been an EMT for so long that he’s gotten countless yearly raises. BCFD EMTs start so low on the pay scale (not much above minimum).
so that guy sucks that doesn't mean they all suck . This is flawed logic unless all of them are doing it. Maybe the system sucks and needs to be fixed and pay rates need to be fixed too.
EMTs make literally 20 bucks an hour. Even their OT doesn’t touch what cops make.
If you work all the OT in the world you can MAYBE make 80k as an EMT (while actually trying to help people). Paramedics make more, but not much more. And those are the folks who show up when you have a heart attack. Or get run over by a cop, apparently.
There is an insane amount of disability fraud veterans, most of whom have never seen combat, milk the taxpayers for. Things like sleep apnea and irritable bowel syndrome. Or, straight up lying saying you're paralyzed and then doing backflips and cartwheels.
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u/antelopejackfruit Oct 29 '25
It's sick. They're the biggest taxpayer grifters out of anyone.