4 Day Work Week

[Pauly Boy]

I'm one of the few city workers not on a proper compressed work week - Doing 40h/week + every Friday. Also one of the few not able to work from home. Life is tough.

[brucebanner]

I average 42 hours a week / year but I'm only really working 6 months out of a year. Working this way for over 10 years and don't think I'd have it any other way, minus not having to work at all.

[mr2mike]

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I'm one of the few city workers not on a proper compressed work week - Doing 40h/week + every Friday. Also one of the few not able to work from home. Life is tough.

Seems like you're doing it wrong. You need a compressed work week so you can roll in the OT hours to double your salary or more.
They won't tell you the CoC employee's name but maybe track her down and find out how. She'll be the one with the lights on in her office 8pm on a Holiday Monday playing Solitaire.

And they just can't seem to find ways to reduce spending...

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calga...ncil-1.5983061

[killramos]

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Seems like you're doing it wrong. You need a compressed work week so you can roll in the OT hours to double your salary or more.
They won't tell you the CoC employee's name but maybe track her down and find out how. She'll be the one with the lights on in her office 8pm on a Holiday Monday playing Solitaire.

And they just can't seem to find ways to reduce spending...

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calga...ncil-1.5983061

I love how she billed 95k of OT. BEFORE taking September onward off as “sick leave”.

[That_Nast]

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I love how she billed 95k of OT. BEFORE taking September onward off as “sick leave”.

Man that's fucking greasy.

[kertejud2]

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Seems like you're doing it wrong. You need a compressed work week so you can roll in the OT hours to double your salary or more.
They won't tell you the CoC employee's name but maybe track her down and find out how. She'll be the one with the lights on in her office 8pm on a Holiday Monday playing Solitaire.

And they just can't seem to find ways to reduce spending...

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calga...ncil-1.5983061

Still a bargain compared to what senile ol' Ray will be taking home in transition pay after doing a bang up job of not remembering what he was approving.

[ExtraSlow]

Headcount reduction, then overtime, the sick/stress leave? Actually sounds about right for the city. I'm betting this employee was acting on direction from thier superiors. My wife got overtime during the floods, like maybe 20 hours total. What a windfall.

[rx7boi]

The overtime bill raises a lot of questions for the former councillor.

"First off, I want to know who signed it," said Jones.

"I can't believe I signed that."

Wat

[ExtraSlow]

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The overtime bill raises a lot of questions for the former councillor.

"First off, I want to know who signed it," said Jones.

"I can't believe I signed that."

Wat

That's classic.

[adam c]

So this office manager makes $88/hour?

I definitely need to get in with the city, screw private industry

[killramos]

Nothing has changed at the city in the last few years. It’s a hilarious gravy train of mediocrity and excess.

No matter how tight a ship Nenshi claims to run.

[ExtraSlow]

Some groups have gotten tighter. Hard to say from the outside if their "value" per dollar spent went up or not.

[bjstare]

They need to name and shame that special lady. The "sick leave since" bit is great.

[Xtrema]

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Nothing has changed at the city in the last few years. It’s a hilarious gravy train of mediocrity and excess.

No matter how tight a ship Nenshi claims to run.

Combing thru the candidate list, seems like the incoming class is the same old.

[Cagare]

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The overtime bill raises a lot of questions for the former councillor.

"First off, I want to know who signed it," said Jones.

"I can't believe I signed that."

Wat

Honestly the biggest problem I see is the amount of signatures that are needed in government, it leads to things being looked at less critically. When I was head of a department at a small Municipality I had to sign literally everything, everything that went in and out of the department. I regularly had to manually sign on average 50 documents a day. I had admin staff separate stuff by criticality because of course some things need more review than others. Even still after that, depending on where the document was coming from I would review more critically than others cause certain people/departments have a lot of errors.

Government doesn't triage like this to manage approvals this way. It's left up to the individual with no management systems. This is by far the biggest problem and how this thing slips through the cracks like this. It doesn't make it acceptable.

[Disoblige]

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They need to name and shame that special lady. The "sick leave since" bit is great.

Ya, obvious blatant abuse. There is absolutely no excuse for it as she knew what she was doing.

[Buster]

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They need to name and shame that special lady. The "sick leave since" bit is great.

the reporters know who it is, but they aren't saying.

Because journalists are awesome nowadays.

Actually CBC is a POS organization.

[mr2mike]

I'm betting there is a ton more staff that chalk up a little less OT but do it long term and have raked it in. Then turn around and say how they deserve it.

[Tik-Tok]

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They need to name and shame that special lady. The "sick leave since" bit is great.

I'm curious if it's the "pre-retirement" year long sick leave that many old school unions like to do. The ones that let you carry over sick days you don't use every year, and then the employee uses them all just before retirement.

I know she's a manager, but probably was union before that.

[ThePenIsMightier]

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Honestly the biggest problem I see is the amount of signatures that are needed in government, it leads to things being looked at less critically. When I was head of a department at a small Municipality I had to sign literally everything, everything that went in and out of the department. I regularly had to manually sign on average 50 documents a day. I had admin staff separate stuff by criticality because of course some things need more review than others. Even still after that, depending on where the document was coming from I would review more critically than others cause certain people/departments have a lot of errors.

Government doesn't triage like this to manage approvals this way. It's left up to the individual with no management systems. This is by far the biggest problem and how this thing slips through the cracks like this. It doesn't make it acceptable.

But but but QUALITY and CHECKING!!!!!

"I'd feel better if that form needed 4 signatures on it instead of only two."