This S.F. deputy earns $2.2 million in overtime by clocking more than 100 hours a week
This S.F. deputy earns $2.2 million in overtime by clocking more than 100 hours a week
For the better part of the last decade, nearly every waking hour of San Francisco Deputy Sheriff Barry Bloom’s life was spent on the clock.
Bloom, a public safety monitor at San Francisco City Hall, was on duty an average of 95 hours a week since 2016, and more than 100 hours a week over the last two fiscal years, according to city data. His workload of late leaves roughly 10 hours a day remaining for sleeping, eating and just about anything else not tied to his job as a sheriff’s deputy.
I am a paramedic/firefighter. Over the past few years our department has been crazy short handed. A lot of times I am the only paramedic on duty in the entire city (vs EMTs, who are a lower level of care). I essentially was not only allowed to work whenever I could but was sometimes required to. I think I averaged 96~ hours a week last year. I am not stealing from anyone other than time with my children. I am being compensated for my time and service i provide. Public servants are not ALL shitheads, sometimes we are filling vital roles and then get shit on for it. Pay better hourly and you get more employees and don't have to pay people like me time and a half when a pandemic hits. I also work 24 hour shifts, so I would just work for 4 days go home for 3. It's easier for me to hit those hours than someone who works a desk job.
It is Ironic that this dude is a safety monitor though. The main people that shit their pants when you work that many hours is payroll, obviously, and the safety officer.
No disrespect to you sir, or any other non-police first responder types, but the police are notorious for riding the clock for no good reason. Cops clock OT sleeping in their cars on the side of the road. They routinely steel from public funds with this bullshit. We need less funding for the police and they need less OT so we can hire and pay more other public servants who can do some good.
Believe it or not, cops are public servants. They just seem to forget that fact.
How do you work 24 hour shifts 4 days in a row?
I'm not OP, but from what I've heard, they stay and sleep at the firehouse on duty. If there's an emergency, they wake up and are out the door very quickly, so they're getting paid the whole time they are there. It's one of the perks of the gig, except for probably being woken up at all times of the night with no guarantee for sleep.
At that point it is called a 96