The city has paid this fireman $125K to do absolutely nothing

[Ptarmigan]

The city has paid this fireman $125K to do absolutely nothing
http://nypost.com/2016/01/28/the-city-pays-this-fireman-125k-a-year-to-do-absolutely-nothing/

A city firefighter has been paid since 2013 for doing absolutely nothing, The Post has learned.

Arnaldo Rodriguez, 40, has been sitting at home for 2¹/₂ years — raking in about $125,000 in salary plus benefits — as the FDNY apparently tries to make up its mind about what to do with him.

“It’s crazy. I’m in limbo land,” Rodriguez said.

He is paid to do nothing with benefits. Here is the reason.

The father of two said his saga began 13 years after he joined the FDNY as an EMT. In July 2013, he became a “priority hire” — promoted to firefighter as part of the department’s settlement of a federal racial-discrimination lawsuit.

The promotion was supposed to automatically make him a firefighter with seniority since he was a Hispanic litigant. It would have net him about $85,000 annually, or $35,000 more than he made as an EMT.

But four days after he entered the Fire Academy, he was told to report for a hearing at the office of the chief of personnel, Rodriguez said.

So, FDNY kept him to make the fire department look more diverse. 

[Ralph Wiggum]

Sounds like Chicago too.  If one attends a convention at McCormick Place, there has to be two union thugs to plug something into an outlet. One to actually do it, and a supervisor.

[thundley4]

Sounds like Chicago too.  If one attends a convention at McCormick Place, there has to be two union thugs to plug something into an outlet. One to actually do it, and a supervisor.

And only a union electrician can plug things in, or that used to be the rule.

[CollectivismMustDie]

The money would have been better spent if they could pay it to obozo for doing the same thing.


 


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