For the better part of the last decade, nearly every waking hour of San Francisco Deputy Sheriff Barry Bloom’s life was spent on the clock.

Bloom, a public safety monitor at San Francisco City Hall, was on duty an average of 95 hours a week since 2016, and more than 100 hours a week over the last two fiscal years, according to city data. His workload of late leaves roughly 10 hours a day remaining for sleeping, eating and just about anything else not tied to his job as a sheriff’s deputy.

  • NounsAndWords@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    There is an enormous difference between “clocking” hours and “working” those hours. I’ve known some of those types with ridiculous amounts of overtime hours for municipalities and I don’t believe for a second they aren’t just stealing from tax payers.

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      1 year ago

      It’s absolutely just stealing from tax payers at that level. 7 years of 95-100 hour weeks would kill you if you actually worked those hours, even as a cop.