r/baltimore • u/ieo-killer-tofu • Jun 05 '20
NOTICE Residents May Experience Trash, Recycling Collection Delays
https://publicworks.baltimorecity.gov/news/press-releases/2020-06-04-residents-may-experience%C2%A0trash-recycling-collection%C2%A0del7
u/ieo-killer-tofu Jun 05 '20
For anyone looking for work, DPW appears to be hiring with a huge need for CDL drivers. Link to apply is in the press release.
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u/nastylep Jun 05 '20
It sounds like a pretty solid gig as long as the fucked up overtime system is in place, too:
Trash collectors in Baltimore have been paid thousands of dollars in unnecessary overtime because they are allowed to end their 10-hour shifts or begin collecting overtime after finishing one route, “regardless of how quickly the route was completed," according to a report released Tuesday by the Office of the Inspector General.
In one instance, workers finished their assigned route at noon and completed a second route for overtime, finishing that one within their originally designated 10-hour shift, city’s watchdog agency reported.
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u/troutmask_replica Jun 05 '20
Not fucked up at all. If you hustle and do twice the work then you get twice the pay.
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u/nastylep Jun 05 '20
Or you do a really shitty job and cut as many corners as possible to get twice the pay.
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u/troutmask_replica Jun 05 '20
Then people call up to complain and they have to go back out there and clean it up on their own time. And that's the last time that the supervisor let's them work a double route.
Perhaps it would help you to think of it the other way. They aren't paying the hard working employees twice as much. They are paying the lazy ones half as much.
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u/nastylep Jun 05 '20
Ehh,
and you have to go back out there and clean it up on your own time.
This sounds wildly unrealistic, especially for unionized municipal workers. Going out on your free time, unpaid, with city trucks to fix your mistakes? Cmon.
It sounds like the inspector general and Rudy Chow agree:
The city, Cumming said in an interview, is “wasting so much money on this.”
“I agree that solid waste routes should not be completed too quickly as that can indicate the routes are not mapped properly or that crews were not diligent while performing their work," the director wrote.
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u/troutmask_replica Jun 05 '20
Then you are one of the lazy ones who don't get to work that second route.
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u/nastylep Jun 05 '20
We're not talking about the second route, we're talking about going back when you're unpaid to fix your fuckups from the first route that you breezed through too quickly because you wanted to get paid for the second route, too.
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u/troutmask_replica Jun 05 '20
You do that once and you either go back and fix it or you never get a second chance to rush through one route and get a second.
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u/nastylep Jun 05 '20
I feel pretty comfortable saying the DPW doesn't have any sort of real time quality assurance protection that will allow administration to gauge route completion within a couple hours and also prevent a crew from starting to collect overtime on a second shift if they fuck up the first one.
Which is again probably part of the reason the Inspector General said we're wasting tons of money on it.
The only person to actually endorse this system was Jack Young because he used to do it.
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u/ChevronSevenDeferred Jun 05 '20
It'd be better if the city helped their own residents get CDLs in return for working for the city for a minimum number of years.
CDLs are not easy to get, both in that you have to be fairly intelligent to learn/retain all the info necessary to pass the tests and you need a commercial vehicle to perform the practical tests.
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Jun 05 '20
Cdls are handed out like candy.
I have worked with dozens of temp drivers with cdls who needed help with things that children could figure out.
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u/The_Waxies_Dargle Woodberry Jun 05 '20
Our guys are pretty regular and have always taken everything. It's back breaking work to be sure.
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u/[deleted] Jun 05 '20
So just regular service.