Re:How a Gang of Hedge Funders Strip-Mined Kentucky’s Public...
by SilasX on Monday October 22, 2018 @11:24AM
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>The thing the galls me the most about that article is it doesn't once stop to try to say or find out how much the guy is working to bring in that much, spoiler it's going to be a lot of hours given it's overtime and his base compensation is only 50k.
You're right, it deceptively leaves out such vital information.
It also leaves out:
- how productive he actually was for each of those 80 hours
- how many workers "only" at 1.5x time were willing to take those shifts but denied because of seniority
- how much of the compensation came from the non-standard practice of letting him redeem PTO for 2x its value by applying it to week where he already worked overtime
- whether those long, hard hours actually translated into clean BART stations, or were just roundabout compensation for being physically present but ineffective
Once you have that full picture, I'm pretty sure the typical person's initial reaction will be closer to right than wrong.
You're right, it deceptively leaves out such vital information.
It also leaves out:
- how productive he actually was for each of those 80 hours
- how many workers "only" at 1.5x time were willing to take those shifts but denied because of seniority
- how much of the compensation came from the non-standard practice of letting him redeem PTO for 2x its value by applying it to week where he already worked overtime
- whether those long, hard hours actually translated into clean BART stations, or were just roundabout compensation for being physically present but ineffective
Once you have that full picture, I'm pretty sure the typical person's initial reaction will be closer to right than wrong.