Liang Zhao Zhang’s job is to clean up BART stations in downtown San Francisco and clean up he does: He swept in $162,000 in overtime pay last year, records show.
Call Zhang the super janitor, an extraordinarily high earner in a field where the beloved school custodian rarely brings home more than $50,000 a year.
Zhang grossed $235,000 in 2015, four times more than his base pay as a janitor. Benefits brought his total cost of employment at the rail agency to more than $270,000. And records show this isn’t the first time he raked in six-figure compensation at BART. Zhang received a combined $682,000 in pay and benefits over the last three years.
“Where do I sign up?” joked Lionel Hsu, a BART rider on Tuesday.
But Hsu, who commutes by BART from his home in Contra Costa County to Oakland, said he doesn’t fault workers who take advantage of OT shifts to make more money. “It’s BART’s fault too,” he said. “It’s poor management, it’s poor financial planning.”
I should consider changing my job to something that allows me to exploit government incompetence.
http://www.mercurynews.com/2016/11/01/bart-janitor-grossed-270k-in-pay-and-benefits-last-year/
If you've ever set foot in a BART station, you'd know no one cleans anything there. Nothing that would warrant regular pays, let alone $270k worth.404 outrage not found. dude worked OT - take it up with BART for allowing an infinite amount of OT to the point where a janitor does make 270k.
His base pay is 60K, that would be the first problem.
“He is signing up for time that is also available to others — if he doesn’t take them, someone else will. Station cleanliness is a priority for us.”
So he makes like $29/hr. Assuming time and a half for anything over 8 hrs. and Saturday and double time on Sunday which is pretty much union standard he would basically need to be on the job like 24/7/365 to pull in $235K. If he worked 12 hours days for 7 days with never a day off that would only be $153K. So, we're talking a lot of 16 hr. days. I hope he doesn't have a long drive home. If he were to fall asleep at the wheel and die in an accident any employer would be deemed negligent for allowing someone to work those hours. The elephant in the room says he sleeps 8 hrs at work. Hope he's got cable too in his hiding place at work.
Sounds like he works harder than 75% of the people bitching
A spokeswoman for the Service Employees International Union, Cecille Isidro described his work as “backbreaking.”
And if there were those checks and balances we'd be hearing about how the big evil government doesn't want hard workers to excel because it would make ethno-queer millennials feel inadequate, or something.I'm sure there are some aspects of his job that are physically demanding but I'm sure a lot of it is walking around looking for trash to pick up. It's hard to believe there are no checks and balances to prevent this kind of stupidity but it *is* government after all.
He's not excelling (as far as I can tell from the article). He's just doing two workers' jobs for four workers' pay. If he were revolutionizing the way janitorial services were being done, then by all means rewards his ingenuity with extra pay. I have nothing against the guy - he's certainly working hard and I hope he's putting away a lot of money and is able to enjoy life at some point.And if there were those checks and balances we'd be hearing about how the big evil government doesn't want hard workers to excel because it would make ethno-queer millennials feel inadequate, or something.
He's going far above and beyond what's expected, that's excelling. People that bust ass day in and and day out should receive more, yes even disproportionately more. For a long time that kind of thing was billed as the American Dream. There's definitely a double standard here.He's not excelling (as far as I can tell from the article). He's just doing two workers' jobs for four workers' pay. If he were revolutionizing the way janitorial services were being done, then by all means rewards his ingenuity with extra pay. I have nothing against the guy - he's certainly working hard and I hope he's putting away a lot of money and is able to enjoy life at some point.
I'm sure there are some aspects of his job that are physically demanding but I'm sure a lot of it is walking around looking for trash to pick up. It's hard to believe there are no checks and balances to prevent this kind of stupidity but it *is* government after all.