Recently CMPD Command has implemented a new directive to limit overtime within the department.
For taxpayers it is another example knee jerk management rather than leadership and planning and just another example of wasteful spending and endless mismanagement.
But for Officers it is massive screw driver and a no-back hex-head stainless steel SCREW!.
As the FOP letter below outlines this new directive limits overtime to a maximum of 10 hours per seven=day work period and 20 hours with a fourteen-day work period.
Most of us taxpayers are unaware of the role that over-time and secondary employment plays in the lives of our CMPD Officers. But for the vast number of these men and woman these "side gig" assignments offer additional pay that is needed to make ends met, keep the mortgage current, fund their retirement plan and hopefully pay for their kids education.
The other issue is when there's a lack of man power the boots on the ground have to come from somewhere.
So do you see it?
And one more thing..... Let's be careful out there.
Overtime gets a bad name as if it is excessive spending for the same service, it is not. A listed hourly wage does not reflect the 33% in benefits attached to it. So overtime is costing the employer 17% more for an experience, well trained employee. A bargain with the silver lining it is boosting morale.
ReplyDeleteMy coworker almost died because he was working so much overtime. Live within your means and stop excessive spending. People live on $3 a day in Cuba.
ReplyDeleteYou can buy a tree hut house there for a $1
DeleteSLOW DOWN in Charlotte or we will give you a citation. Don’t worry about getting killed or robbed though.
ReplyDeleteThat’s scary. Can’t enforce all at
DeleteOff duty/Overtime were never designed to be an essential and required for an officer. Part of academy was having it explained to officers not to get into a situation where they depended on off duty money to meet their financial obligations. Yes the cost of living has increased, no raises aren’t as big but are season tickets to football games, beach homes, boats, lake homes, gun collections necessary for life. If you are living beyond your means that’s not the cities fault.
ReplyDeleteAgreed! These greedy officers trying to pay for child care or are single income families are the problem!
DeleteHow to tank morale #305,001:
ReplyDeleteTell officers that want to work OT that they can’t. Tell officers who are on a scheduled day off to come in and work for a billionaire’s sports team.
CMPD can’t stop stepping on its own balls.
Keep in mind, if you call sick for an off duty job, that they forced upon you, on your scheduled day off, they can’t do a damn thing!
DeleteOvertime will have to be permanently figured in to CMPD and CFD budgets. It will be a continual issue. They struggle to get enough for a recruit class. Gone are the days people stay 25-30 years. CMPD, like CFD has far more civil service firefighters in admin positions and not in the streets where they belong. They take from operations to fill admin positions and don’t back fill the positions.
ReplyDeleteMotherfuckers, they give millions to Section 8 and billions to CMS.
ReplyDeleteOvertime costs are drop in the bucket. Fuck this shit wish I could quit
Do it. Charlotte is shit. Let these neanderthals weed themselves out
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