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I would imagine a good bit of the swollen pensions and double billing are spoils rewards for selected political apparatchiks.

I've seen many police and firefighter salaries that are also insane. Just use one of those websites that makes all govt employee salaries searchable. It's always due to overtime.

When I was younger I worked many petty retail jobs, and aside from black friday through xmas, overtime was a dirty word and often employees were punished if they accidentally worked unapproved OT, and approved OT was rare. Private companies know how inefficient OT can be.

The "justification" I always hear from govt for why they allow people to work OT every week for years is they claim that it's usually cheaper. They say the hiring and training costs, combined with very large benefits package, along with certain other costs, forms a large step in cost to add another employee. But since OT usually just increases their salary, without altering the other line items like benefits etc..., it ends up cheaper than adding a new employee.

I can see this being true in some short term or unusual circumstances. But I don't believe it when the OT is chronic and adds significant hours, especially when chronic for years. Chronic OT = labor system design problem.

I've also heard claims of bureaucratic limitations on headcount causing OT.

I think these "situations that make OT appealing" are intentionally designed.

This has been know for a while. Slam OT the last year or two for massive pension padding.

HunterTits says

Current California Unfunded Pension Liability: $1 TRILLION

No wonder California wants mandatory vaccines for all its employees. California to NWO: "Can't you make those vaccines more toxic so they keel over in their tracks before pension day?"

I worked at a crummy mom and pop company in California, but I didn’t mind too much at the time.
The other guys and a female all got county or city government jobs.
I was offered one in San Francisco for a lot of money for easy work.
The female accepted the job; she told me she played Tetris a lot because of the light work load.
They’re all retired and very well off.
Government at all levels is like cancer; it grows and sucks the blood of the host.