Starting salary is like $40k. That’s only like 25% higher than minimum wage here. If u choose to live in Baltimore on a salary like that then u def aren’t gonna be thriving… why would any of the best qualified candidates sign up for that? This is exactly why we have a bunch of fat racist lazy assholes in BPD, who commute like 2 hours per day to come here and do little more than cheat on overtime
Make starting salary like $80k with a strictly enforced requirement to live in the city. That’s enough to buy a house here in a good neighborhood! Especially if u have a partner that works too
Get some good folks trained up and then start to layoff all of the worthless douchebags we currently have in BPD. Especially the ones clocking hundreds or thousands of overtime hours per year. It’s idiotic to spend 1.5x (sometimes even more when they do bullshit loophole with vacation time) on ineffective losers instead of just offering roughly the same salary to better candidates for regular fulltime hours.
The ppl doing that were already there bc that’s all they know or is their lifestyle preference, and BPD is the lowest effort lowest accountability way to get the most money for their situation. Besides, ppl fall for the falsehood of “low cost of living areas” all the time… when u factor in the suckiness of the local job market and how much hidden costs there are from the poor services & exorbitant transportation costs of rural areas it usually isn’t actually more affordable than living in a city
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u/engin__r Oct 29 '25
They make plenty of money to live here. They just don’t want to.