re: L.A. lifeguards raked in up to $500,000 last year, watchdog report finds

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My only argument is that you are full of shite claiming nurses at Ochsner worked 6 shifts a week for 52 weeks straight. This is why you keep trying to shite the conversation away form that

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Ok, I won’t shift. You are wrong

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Ok, I won’t shift. You are wrong

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I'm not

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Ok, I won’t shift. You are wrong

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Your claim is the minority way out of the norm claim. You have no evidence to back it up. You have a history of saying empirically inaccurate things.

But sure, we'll just take your word for it.

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But I won’t speak for them, let’s ask some residents to chime in how it was for them

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I just told you how it was for almost a dozen.

I also know dozens that work/have worked in public accounting, another high hour industry. Every single one of them utilizes those 25 days of PTO. The same PTO days that are included in your total hours "worked" for the year.

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What does any of this have to do with your asinine assertation?

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Nothing and I doubt he knows many people that consistently work 80 hour work weeks.

I doubt he knows any farmers, let alone some that 'work around the clock'

He's dug in though

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Just you are foolish with your absolute thinking of the “impossibility” of working these hours

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Practical impossiblty.

Has someone done it, I'm sure they have. But for every one person that actually has worked those hours, there's a dozen that are stealing time.

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So he made $350,000 in overtime. At time and half that's over 3,200 hours of overtime, or over 60 extra hours a week.

Perfectly reasonable, imo

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That's not how it works.
Take a seat and follow along how fricked up some labor contracts are for union employees.

I'm an analyst who has worked on payroll efforts at plants for many years.

This is one extreme example at a plant I worked at in 2001.
A shift worker who makes $20/hr and works 4 12 hr shifts every 7 day period, so 48 hours a week

Monday 14 hours.
Tuesday 12 hours
Wednesday 16 hours
Thursday 12 hours.
Friday off but called in only to get to go home.
Sat off
Sun off but called in and worked 2 hours and went home.

His pay would look like this under that union contract.

monday 8 hours @ $20/hr, 4 hours at $30/hr, 2 hours at $40/hr
tuesday 8 hours @ $20/hr, 4 hours at $30/hr
wednesday 8 hours @ $20/hr, 4 hours at $30/hr, 4 hours at $40/hr
thursday 8 hours @ $20/hr, 4 hours at $30/hr

here's where it got GOOD. Call-out pay. smdh.

Friday 4 hours call out time @ $40/hr to just drive to plant and go home.
Sunday 4 hours call out time @ $40/hr + 2 hours at $40/hour that he actually worked + 6 hours at $20/hr for Sunday premium pay.

Now this was an extremely fricked up contract that favored the union labor. Guys worked MAYBE 60 hrs a week total but were pulling in $100k a year with $20/hr pay grade.
This plant subsequently shut down and re-opened 3 years later sans union.

But you can see how premium pay codes will multiply the shite out of an hourly employee's wages.

Nurses during the pandemic were raking it in at OLOL in Baton Rouge under similar 'emergency' compensation.

Was he salaried or not? How is a guy salaried at $150k getting that much OT? Why not just pay them $180k or $200k and no OT? That's still a shite ton of money even for California to be a lifeguard.

ETA; I'm guessing the others are right and he works some sort of Fireman 48/24 schedule. So he works like 48 on/ 24 off and does that twice a week, gets paid to sleep, and then works 96 hour work weeks with OT.

LOL at the comment "he's not getting paid to sit in the sun with his feet in the sand", no he's getting paid to sleep A LOT.

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Tax Dollars at work.

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Do you live in California? Why do you care how they spend their Tax Dollars? California has an Annual GDP of $3 trillion, if they want to spend that money to keep their residents from drowning let them.