Comments by "Ken ibn Anak" (@kenibnanak5554) on "Nate The Lawyer"
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Back when I was in law enforcement i knew many officers who worked double 8 hour shifts routinely. A few (not married) did so 7 days a week.
If you had a desk assignment, or worked a security detail at an impound lot or an evidence or records warehouse or in an alarm station it was pretty easy overtime and boredom and staying awake were the biggest problems doing so. There was no fraud or sexual favoritism involved in that. Someone had to stand those posts late at night, on weekends and Holidays and often no one but those guys (and gals) wanted to.
Hardly anyone with a family wants to be sitting in a warehouse at 3 in the morning. Those folks did, if they got overtime pay (OT) for doing so.
We worked 5 8 hour shifts a week. If you doubled down and did doubles, then you did 80 hours that week and 40 of it was OT. But if you also worked doubles on your 2 off days, then that gave you another 32 hours for a total of 112 hours worked that week of which 72 hours was OT .
I definitely knew some guys who did that every single week for years (decades for some). They didn't seek or want promotions or different assignments because that would mean losing the overtime pay. Management took the position OT was an expense, but hiring people for the position was hard (we all had US govt. TS clearances with poly and had to go through a lot of extra stuff to qualify and keep the job) and we weren't the highest paid agency out there. So we had a high turnover rate as people swapped out for agencies that paid more and new hires were rare. So management tolerated the OT kings.
Personally I tried to not do more than 56 hours total a week. However during several decades I confess to having had a few 100 hour work weeks. If Monday is your day off, but you got court that day, it was OT. An arrest near the end of your shift, that meant OT till the paperwork was done. Maybe you had to do some search warrants too. More than once (before telephonic search warrants) I would be in some judge's living room or kitchen at 2am swearing out a warrant affidavit after my shift had supposedly ended at 2300 hr. OT. So yeah if I could keep my work week down to 56 hours or less, I was happy and could have a social life too. But our OT kings didn't want social lives, they just wanted fat paychecks.
However, I have zero idea how in the 2 week period of 5/5/23 Terry Young (at 13:30) worked 303 hours. Even if he had worked 7 16 hour days a week for 2 weeks, that would only total to 224 hours. There is 79 hours there that SIMPLY DO NOT FIT into a work week. LoL, did they pay imr for his time driving to work and sleeping at home? Something wrong there. Same thing for the 275 hours he supposedly worked in the 2 week period of 5/19/23. 😃
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