Fire Fifty-Four Fire Fighters?
We suppose that's one way to balance the budget, but it seems a little short sighted:
Chicago’s Inspector General is recommending the termination of 54 firefighters assigned to the Fire Department’s scandal-scarred Fire Prevention Bureau for allegedly falsifying mileage used to reimburse them for driving their personal vehicles to inspections.
The alleged fraud cost Chicago taxpayers more than $100,000 in 2009 alone, but has been going on for years, the sources said.
Confronted with evidence from GPS-equipped cell phones that have tracked several firefighters’ movements since a 2007 scandal, sources said the firefighters have acknowledged padding their mileage expenses, in some cases for their entire careers.
GPS is everywhere. To do this even knowing you had a GPS phone was incredibly silly.
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posted by SCC at 9:31 AM
101 Comments:
Every phone has gps. Turn that shit off. Set it so that it is only activated when you call 911.
They should be fired for theft, not to balance any budgets.
I was talking to a few friends that are in the know about this and they said that there were people that are desk workers in the FPB that were taking the mileage money allowed too. Also a guy that didn't even have a car was collecting. And when they would be off on furlough instead of taking a pro-rated amount they would put in for the entire amount.
Well maybe this will take the heat off the CPD until someone else screws up.
What a F'n joke!!!! You're going to try to make examples out of a few firemen for $100,000. and yet the CFD and CPD exempts rape this city, and everyone watches!!!!!
Got to love the politics of Shitcago.....
How about the I.G. investigate the aldermen!!!!!!
BULLSHIT!!!!
Look at it this way the goofs there have clout and now will take heat off cpd for awhile for that thank you idiots!
They "stole" they should be fired. There is no excuse for stealing. "But", it has been going on for years is no defense. You are the ones, the 54, who were caught stealing. Would you allow a firefighter into your home if you knew they stole something while on duty? Would you trust them with your home,your business, your possesions, your life? The "54" had an opportunity to enrich themselves at your expense,at tax payers expense, can they ever be trusted again? No.
FFUUCCKK !!!!!!!!
Daley steals MILLIONS, if not billions and no one seems the least bit interested.......but they are going fry these guys over comparitive chump change.
That's so typical Chicago.
that's chump change compared to the daley crime family annual take
Dump 'em. The City is already forced to hire back a bunch of black candidates as firefighters already. This way they won't further overtax the city budget. Legally firing the mopes clears the way for some new hires.
Turning all that 'inspection' bullshit to the bldg. dept. is a good idea anyway. No point in two different city agencies duplicating the work, it's a luxury the city can't afford anymore.
Sounds like 54 idiots have to go. A bad thing?
The Inspector General should have looked into all of Daley's actions, he could have saved BILLIONS
Look at the parking meters: his family/friends were working for the firm... ...now he's working for the firm. Ethics violations everywhere
BUT, I'm wasting your time mentioning this-- SCC readers know this
seems a little harsh. If they fire the firefighters they need to fire about half the inside staff in the police department, most of whom haven't worked an eight hour day in years.
In the meantime, Greg HINZ at Crains Chicago Business writes that
Maggie Daley's charity got a 6.5 million city contract 4 days before Mayor Daley left office
AND
Ray Orozco, the last chief of staff (and former Fire Chief) to former Mayor Richard M. Daley, has landed himself a nice new job: a newly created, $185,000-a-year position with the charity run by Mr. Daley's wife, Maggie Daley.
FURTHER
The charity since 2007 regularly has received $6.5 million about a year from the city, they say. The money was included in the budget, they add, and it just so happens that the contract guaranteeing this year's funding went into effect in the final days of Mr. Daley's tenure.
http://www.chicagobusiness.com/section/blogs?blogID=greg-hinz
This is the first of three steps of privatizing parts of the fire department.
It was written about here last year.
Once again HUBRIS, chances are these people were clouted and thought they were untouchable. Good job to Inspector Ferguson, but these are small fish compared to what happens daily with our elected officials. Someone needs to do the heavy lifting other than 1 reporter at the Reader.
Confronted with evidence from GPS-equipped cell phones that have tracked several firefighters’ movements since a 2007 scandal, sources said the firefighters have acknowledged padding their mileage expenses, IN SOME CASES, FOR THEIR ENTIRE CAREERS.
What the fuck!
Adios! Tell your story walkin, motherfuckers!
can them or force them to pay huge fines.
This is the same group of "firefighters" that were fired a few years back for accepting cash for doing inspections on the weekend. They all sued and eventually got their jobs back before. This time, the city wisened up and just let them go.
If you don't know, people assigned to the Bureau aren't doing firefighting work. They are hiding there and just doing inspections instead of doing the work that they were hired to do.
I say good riddance. The city's better off without these leeches.
-CFD Member
Some of these guys are making over six figures and that isn't enough.
Fire them all and they can see what they are worth in the private sector.
Sorry - no compassion here.
Fire every single one of those lying fucking scumbags and make them pay restitution PLUS hefty fines.
That's what cheating at the top does. The culture seeps all the way down the organization.
Thanks Daley, you fucking pig fucker.
It wasn't "silly" SCC (that is what Mayor Daley would say) it was criminal. These stupid, stupid, stupid fools get whatever fate that falls upon them. How hard is it to do the right thing? My sympathies will always go to someone who did the right thing and then got screwed. But not to people who made idiotic mistakes and plus knowing that gps and cameras are everywhere.
Fire 54 firemen..???? How about they indict one Ex -Mayor first. Then Ex CFD brass.
With all the skimming and scamming The Bosses
have been doing for years they can only find 54 flunky firemen?
Look at the CPD phony CAPS Bureau too.
Passing those CU slips for years on bs meetings and "callbacks" for the Lt. & above.
And then the Inspector General says firing these guys will help offset the settlement for the minority pass-overs.
Didn't New Jersey rule that race wasn't an issue to promote?
Meanwhile The Daley After School Foundation gets almost $7 mil for what....
I don't see why you would say it's short-sighted.
Sounds like the fire dept. version of a clout-baby unit.
and they are all lieutenants
wrong answer - that's the way we always did it
guilty good bye pension
Speaking of open government where's the GPS reports for the ex-mayors cars and the alderman's cars?
I want an on-line map that shows where they are going -- blowing the taxpayers money on luxury B.S. to inflate their egos.
I think that we should have a detailed itemized list of accounting showing what each aldermen is spending that $70,000 dollars of taxpayers expense account money on too!!
Let's go Rahm.
Open government baby. Put the cities books on-line so we can see where the money is going. Putting everyone wages on-line was a nice first step, now follow it up! Follow it up! Yours too!
Close those ward offices that are draining the coffers. Shared cubicles, mobile offices are good enough. We don't need to be providing mansions and castles in the slums surrounded by Praetorian guards for these people to work in ..these are alderman, not royalty. The three-one-one center is doing most of their work what do we need 50 of the for anyway?
The city functioned just fine many years ago when we first hit our current population level and we had far less aldermen. Cut the fat, get rid of this bloated city council.
FIRE them ALL, F em, I enforce the laws I am expected to abide by the laws and for these water wasters to be given Anotber pass is bull@#$%. I've arrested doped up water waters and seen them return to their jobs this is nonsense. Ignorance of the law is not acceptable yet fudging is? Come on SCC get real! You either play by the rules or your OUT!
It's called theft.
off topic but BREAKING NEWS
More trigger happy police. Police shot a man on the west side in 015. The two trigger happy officers were sent to the hospital from injuries caused by the choir boy offender. The two trigger happy officers shot the choir boy offender at a domestic on latrobe. (sarcasm off) get well officers and nice job. Hope all sustained injuries heal and you take your time getting back to work.. Nice work.
yah the ghetto rats r stealing millions..
how much did daley steal?
"The alleged fraud cost Chicago taxpayers more than $100,000 in 2009 alone, but has been going on for years, the sources said."
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How about the" fraud" of providing rich and maggie with body guards and cars ? The same for eddie burke and all the others in city government that perceive themselves as Royalty ????? It's about time they start living off their own money and leave ours alone. rich & maggie and all the burkes etc could vanish tomorrow & we'd be just fine. First things First. daley & burke have been perpetrating fraud on the city of chicago for way too long. Get them leeches first !!!!
if you're lacking in brain cells and you allegedly admit to padding the books. well then it doesn't seem short sighted to fire them as oppose to locking them up. Key word is Admit.
The useless hacks that work the CFD FPB are the equal of the CPD's 35th st house mice. And the two bosses getting bounced? One is the former head of the african american firefighters league and the other a HDO hack who couldn"t fight a fire to save his life.
If they are confirmed to be Crooked...Fuck em.
Crooked Cops
Crooked CFD
Crooked Politicians
Crooked Priests
I don't have sympathy for them at all.
When we see the last names of these cheaters, it will become clear.
No doubt some 19th and 23rd Warders, with the typical scumbag sense of entitlement.
with or without GPS, it's fraud
we would save more money if we eliminate 25 alderman.
clout heavy people are not going anywhere
bye bye they gone
resign now and maybe save pension
But SCC, they're not fire fighters. That bureau has been cheating the system for so long now it's beyond just aggravating. Makes sense to put the job function with the Buildings Dept. as it is just one of many inspections a business/building must go through. But, wonder what's happening with the corruption in Buildings. Haven't heard much more about "operation crooked code".....must be all cleaned up then. :/
I like firemen But FUCK them At the very least they should be forced to repay the money and take a year suspension.
Then thank their lucky stars they arent being criminally prosecuted
Rahm will use this and other perceived scandals to undercut contract negotiations and turn public opinion against the CFD and CPD. Get ready everyone, here comes the architect of media manipulation and character aasault.
so theft isn't a fireable offense? they ought to be fired and prosecuted for fraud, and have any future wages/pensions garnished to reimburse the taxpayers.
The city could get by with no more than 2000 firemen all working 8 hour shifts.
Are these not criminal charges? And what will Alvarez do about them? They should ALL be in jail for stealing MY money.
Hey Rahm, how about replacing them with 54 "New Americans"?
Would you trust them with your home,your business, your possessions, your life? The "54" had an opportunity to enrich themselves at your expense,at tax payers expense, can they ever be trusted again? No.
Right on if they were the police they would be fired.
The building inspections bureau isn't there where that 19 year old kid was doing inspections and passed the building where the porch collapsed? His dad was the head of a union. Where are they now?? He has a better job.
Why not eliminate the FPB and have the Fire Companies inspect the property in the districts they work in.
Be careful officers wait for more back up!
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chi-1-shot-2-officers-injured-in-west-side-incident-20110803,0,1023674.story
It would be no different if it were coppers, if you take a chance and get caught with your hand in the cookie jar, then you must face the consequences, period.
I can't stand it when I see able bodied people using link cards, or collecting disability, it's f&%$#@!g ridiculous, a thief is a thief, so yes they should be punished.
Now having said that, it is hard to take the Inspector General seriously when so much corruption in the upper echelons of government continue to get a pass. It's no a secret that the ex mayor, Daley should be in prison but yet you go after the easy targets, I find it interesting that the alderman are exempt from the investigatory arm of the inspector general, okay yeah, its all on the up and up.
Most of us agree that they should be held accountable but as it the case with CPD, you can't paint all of the CFD with the same brush. As a police officer, I have a great deal of respect for the honest firefighter out there trying to make an honest living, risking their own lives to protect others. It's a shame that a few will always make things worse for the majority.
$100,000 divided by 54 is $1851. $1851 divided by 365 is $5.00. they took five dollars a day each. the politicians steal millions but it is never investigated and never reported.
This is disgusting, BUT when The President flies in for 4 hrs at TAXPAYERS expense to have a $35,000 a head fundraiser and we get stuck with the tab and inconvenience maybe our Mayor should tell him NO! At this time in history with a nations precarious financial situation in the balance,this brazen elitism is disgusting. What those fireman did is just plain stupid, but then again is voting Democrat or not at all.
And the Daley crime family stole MILLIONS and are still stealing MILLIONS and the FEDS are to SCARED to touch him for fear of OBAMA King Richards PUPPET!
What you don't know about this:
GPS had nothing to do with this case.
This investigation began, because a F/1 wanted to
rat out her captain - who never left the office and took a mileage check every month.
The highest pay out of mileage was 350. Now, figure in two tanks of gas each week, parking expenses, maintenance, insurance and the daily wear and tear on the vehicle - the cost doesn't begin to cover the expenses.
Why choose only 2009 to investigate? And, why
wasn't the "Clout Heavy Public Education Section" which is full of "paramedic bosses" included??
How is this different from a CPD officer taking a uniform allowance and never spending a dime of that money on uniforms??
There is a 400 pound blue shirt I know that has one shirt and one pair of pants that never get washed during his 4-day work week!!
GROSS!
Ray Orozco, the last chief of staff (and former Fire Chief) to former Mayor Richard M. Daley, has landed himself a nice new job: a newly created, $185,000-a-year position with the charity run by Mr. Daley's wife, Maggie Daley.
The gift that keeps on giving.
The city functioned just fine many years ago when we first hit our current population level and we had far less aldermen. Cut the fat, get rid of this bloated city council.
I agree we need fewer alderman, but we have had 50 since the ealry 1900's.
Fire them?! Hell, lock their asses up! It is stealing. Put them away for their felonies
"The highest pay out of mileage was 350. Now, figure in two tanks of gas each week, parking expenses, maintenance, insurance and the daily wear and tear on the vehicle - the cost doesn't begin to cover the expenses."
Doesn't matter, these things are well known before the job is accepted. While this may be offered as an excuse, they falsified official record. After a front page headline, they're done. Stupid EVERY city employee knows the nextels are gps'd they blew a fluff do little, no danger high paying job over an extra 50-60 bucks a month.
imagine what else they were stealing!
alderman receive $75000 expense account , demand receipts and put them in jail
who is rahm to authorize 2 police cars and 5 police officers making sergeants pay to drive around private citizen rich and maggie daley , isn't that criminal???
$100,000 / 54 firefighters = $1800 each...sounds like felony theft...even in crook county. Charge them!
Rahm will exploit this for every ounce of negative public opinion against the firefighters in their next contract talks. He will be silent though, when that prick with big ears from DC flies in to shake down campaign donors on our dime.
OMFG would you look at this!!!
YOU F'N CITY HALL WHORES -- GIVE THE TAXPAYERS THEIR MONEY BACK !!!
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$11 Million for Ald. Burke's Police Security: FOX Chicago, BGA Investigation
By Dane Placko, FOX Chicago News, and the Better Government Association
Chicago - For nearly 30 years, one of the best-kept secrets in Chicago has been just how much it costs to protect Ald. Ed Burke (14th). But a FOX Chicago News/Better Government Association investigation has revealed the price tag: $595,682 in just 2009 alone, adding up to an estimated $11 million since Burke was given the security detail back in 1983.
Here's the breakdown: four full-time officers making $150,000, $147,000, $140,000, and $132,000 in 2009, plus a part-timer who made $25,000. Those figures do not include health or pension benefits. Since each person's base salary is between $90,000 to $100,000/year, the figures show these police officers are making a ton of overtime.
The numbers were released in response to a lawsuit filed by the BGA.
"I don't think I've ever seen annual salaries at this level for police officers. These individuals were putting in an extraordinary amount of overtime, and as a result the numbers really add up," said BGA Executive Director Andy Shaw. "These are astonishing figures. It's an awful lot of money to protect one alderman."
Last month, Mayor Rahm Emanuel ordered an overhaul of security details for public officials. Burke's five officers will soon go back to the streets, and be replaced by a pair of retired officers. But Ald. Scott Waguespack (32nd) said even that perk needs to be questioned.
"I don't know what kind of compromise he reached with the mayor, so I would reiterate to him in this 600-million dollar hole that we have, every available dollar has to be looked at, and this is one that we need to look at," Waguespack said.
Critics said the police detail may have been warranted in the 1980s when Burke was a key player in the racially charged Council Wars, but now it seems like an expensive ego-stroke.
"It's probably a very intoxicating thing to be picked up every morning, protected by armed cops who go with you everywhere. It says you're an important individual," Shaw said.
more >> http://www.myfoxchicago.com/dpp/news/investigative/chicago-alderman-ed-burke-police-security-detail-millions-rahm-emanuel-mayor-20110803
"How is this different from a CPD officer taking a uniform allowance and never spending a dime of that money on uniforms??
There is a 400 pound blue shirt I know that has one shirt and one pair of pants that never get washed during his 4-day work week!!
GROSS!"
Are you fucking serious?!!! The uniform allowance is a part of our CONTRACT. Dolt! Now if we stole the money, that would be the same. You firemen aren't too quick on the uptake, huh?
Sorry to say I'm old enough to remember when they went on strike. It hurt and eroded a long established good relationship between us.
Can't say I would want anyone to lose their job over something so stupid as this.
Make em pay back the funds and some suspension time for all involved.
Remember they went longer then us to get their last contract yet never complained publicly. Maybe because of some of the perks they have. How many jobs do they pay you to sleep in a bed, workout, watch TV, enjoy home cooked meals while working less then 90 days a year.
As usual nothing will happen! If it was coppers to the gallows they would be marched and anita (i lika all the free taxpayer perks my ugly ass gets) will do nothing at all, she will be told to shut her hdo ass up and not say anything! Are the feds still around? This is theft and we are told it has been going on forever! Guess the kid who is taking shit can just do it as an example from these clouted fucks!
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Ray Orozco, the last chief of staff (and former Fire Chief) to former Mayor Richard M. Daley, has landed himself a nice new job: a newly created, $185,000-a-year position with the charity run by Mr. Daley's wife, Maggie Daley.
The gift that keeps on giving.
8/03/2011 07:10:00 PM
Another thief! the same ray who "forgot" that he cheated on college forms for his kids and had to pay $15,000 he should of been properly charged another member of the elite daley crime family! Like vaneko and the others you can commit murder and if your a card carrying daley crime family member "it's OK!" But if your a great copper a war hero like BILLY COZZI you watch as the daley crime family and a moronic ex fed puts you away in a decrepit prison for doing something other coppers do. Like the fire dept but cfd gets away with everything why?
OT
FOP Board just approved buying jerseys for the Stars Hockey Team at a cost of $5800.00! Way to spend our money! Hasn't the hockey team ever heard of fundraiser? I heard Billy Dee and Slick Rich were salivating when this was brought up for a vote.
Every athletic team should ask the FOP to buy their uniforms including basketball, baseball, soccer, cricket and squash teams.
People should ask why the FOP Field Reps get D-5, all their expenses paid and a monthly stipend for representing the membership. Almost seems like an extension of the
Daley crime family. I bet members would lead the FOP for D-1.
Emanual is already backpeddling by stating that it might cost more to fire them as the firings would be contested by the union and the loss is only $100,000.00.
However, some of the offenders stated that they have been doing this forever and the above figure is only for 2009.
Kind of blows a hole in the mayor's theory.
Fire 'em, fine 'em, whatever...at least it's not CPD for a change!
And how much have those 50 aldermen stole over the years?
Have the fire fighters pay restitution and give them a month off without pay. These men and women have families to feed. Indeed they were stupid to do what they did but not enough to take away their jobs. Fit the punishment with the crime.
Rounding all numbers here, if the alleged fraud costs the city 100 grand, that would be around 200,000 miles cheated on, 2007 IRS expense for mileage is .55 a mile. Averaging here around 3700 miles each, or about 15 miles a day in cheating averaged out for each. 7 or 8 bucks. Not to trivialize this at all. Not to compare this to Burke's body gurards, or Daley's bullshit. But I would hate to lose a plum job like that one for the price of a lunch at Mc Donald's.
If The Daley Crime Family can steal $millions and walk away then why are we going to fire these fire dept. folks. Give them a just punishment...restitution and some time off.
I don't have a dog in this fight... but think about the reality. Maybe 75% of FFs are in their houses 24 hours a day, and can't leave: Period. Would love to have $1.00 for every mile CPD has driven out of district for
personal convenience. Especially
"unmarked".
Bottom line is Rahm wants both
departments to shrink.
What about accountability? All the shit that happens on Daleys watch...,, indict this bastard already!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Once again we see the double standard. Coppers have been indicted and federally prosecuted for taking bribes that were less than a thousand dollars. Remember the funeral home scandals of the 1980's. The amount of money taken has never discouraged a U.S. Attorney with political ambitions.
If these had been coppers,they'd be on trial at the Dirksen building.
WRT : "The city functioned just fine many years ago when we first hit our current population level and we had far less aldermen. Cut the fat, get rid of this bloated city council."
I agree we need fewer alderman, but we have had 50 since the ealry 1900's.
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Can you site your source?
This census ward map of 1900 shows just 35 wards.
http://www.alookatcook.com/1900/1900ChgoCtymp.htm
as does this ward map of 1920.
http://www.alookatcook.com/1920/1920_ward_map.htm
If wasn't until the '30's that I see fifty wards in the city.
and population wise ....
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(Newser) – Chicago's population fell 6.9% during the decade that ended in 2010, leaving it with fewer people than lived there in 1920. The US Census Bureau reports a population of 2,695,598 people, just under the 2.7 million that were reported nearly a century ago, the Wall Street Journal reports. The recession is likely to blame for a significant migration to the suburbs and the South; even so, Chicago is expected to remain the third-largest city in the nation behind New York and Los Angeles.
http://www.newser.com/story/112177/chicagos-population-falls-below-1920-levels-2010-census.html
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With that said and considering all the automation and communications and other technology of the day you can't tell me that we even need 35 aldermen like we had back 100 years ago.
This is b.s. bloated political clout that does not do a thing to serve the taxpayers.
Compare Chicago to the top ten cities. It's a waste that we can no longer afford.
8/03/2011 07:09:00 PM
I agree 100%
How is this different from a CPD officer taking a uniform allowance and never spending a dime of that money on uniforms??
There is a 400 pound blue shirt I know that has one shirt and one pair of pants that never get washed during his 4-day work week!!
GROSS!
It's totally different you moron.
They're accused of bilking the City out of a 100G. Meanwhile the 2Chiefs of the Fire Prevention Bureau make 175 & 165 G a year?
There's your fraud. Rambho wants to Balance the budget, start by eliminating the overbloated bureaucracy. These Gold Stars are killing the pensions as well
How is this different from a CPD officer taking a uniform allowance and never spending a dime of that money on uniforms??
--Rahm wants his $$$ back! That's why the vest wearout dates etc. If we are not spending it The he willtake it away from us next contract.
Anonymous said...
How is this different from a CPD officer taking a uniform allowance and never spending a dime of that money on uniforms??
There is a 400 pound blue shirt I know that has one shirt and one pair of pants that never get washed during his 4-day work week!!
GROSS!
- His shirts and pants probably cost more. Omar the tent maker doesn’t work cheat you know !
If this is fraud and waste then what do you call the midget and burkes bodyguard detail?
How many jobs do they pay you to sleep in a bed, workout, watch TV, enjoy home cooked meals while working less then 90 days a year.
8/03/2011 10:41:00 PM
you left out 'risk being burned to a crisp'.
politicians are the biggest thieves
they set the example
These were all clout spots filled by Hdo and west side revs. So Rahm doesn't want to piss them off. That's why he doesnt want to fire these guys.
The problem now is the race card. Apparently, it's been thrown out by a certain group of individuals that represent the majority (50) of the accused...
For the moron writing about the uniform allowance.
Several years ago, the city tried to cut the allowance. It was pointed out that the allowance is not just for purchasing new item, but maintaiining and also the cleaning of the uniform. It does not matter if you have them comercially cleaned or your spouse does them at home. This also covers the cost of soap, shoe polish, pens, watches, and the dozens of other things you buy for work.
Firemen on the whole, have too much time on their hands. A 40 hr. workweek would straighten out many of them, who get in trouble simply because they dont have enough to do. Also it should save the Taxpayers some money, as most of the CFD's work is paramedic in nature.
Anonymous said...
Ray Orozco, the last chief of staff (and former Fire Chief) to former Mayor Richard M. Daley, has landed himself a nice new job: a newly created, $185,000-a-year position with the charity run by Mr. Daley's wife, Maggie Daley.
The gift that keeps on giving.
8/03/2011 07:10:00 PM
How the fuck is anyone who works for a charitable organization allowed to make a salary of $185k? Thats some major unethical shit. Hope he rots in hell.
FOP Board just approved buying jerseys for the Stars Hockey Team at a cost of $5800.00! Way to spend our money! Hasn't the hockey team ever heard of fundraiser? I heard Billy Dee and Slick Rich were salivating when this was brought up for a vote.
AUDIT FOP!
How many jobs do they pay you to sleep in a bed, workout, watch TV, enjoy home cooked meals while working less then 90 days a year.
8/03/2011 10:41:00 PM
you left out 'risk being burned to a crisp'.
8/04/2011 08:45:00 AM
Driving your car in the city will get you killed so stop !
good point , assign firefighters to 12 hr shifts , no one should be paid to sleep , workout , run a business , cutting boards or pipe for side jobs in back of firehouse.
I would rather have a firefighter or paramedic repond that wasn't just woke from a sound sleep .
Isn't that dangerous to climb ladders , enter burning building after you just woke up .
close some fire houses and
cfd will save alot of money , do you really need a captain to supervise a lieutenant and 4 firefighters , seems top heavy .
People are instructed on their first day to take the maximum mileage allowance in the Fire Prevention Bureau so they have enough money to keep their cars running. They have to use their own cars and pay for their own gas, the union should have made this a fixed rate stipend instead of falsifying mileage receipts to have enough money to keep their private vehicles running so they can do their work.
Anonymous said...
Anonymous said...
Ray Orozco, the last chief of staff (and former Fire Chief) to former Mayor Richard M. Daley, has landed himself a nice new job: a newly created, $185,000-a-year position with the charity run by Mr. Daley's wife, Maggie Daley.
The gift that keeps on giving.
8/03/2011 07:10:00 PM
How the fuck is anyone who works for a charitable organization allowed to make a salary of $185k? Thats some major unethical shit. Hope he rots in hell.
8/04/2011 04:58:00 PM
Look at Phil Cline's salary. He should be ashamed of himself!
You wanna punish these mopes? Make 'em work a 5 day week.
I'm hip. Before you fire 54 firemen, fire the CO of 007 for a start then find the former Mayor and slap about 90 inditements on him, run up to the fifth floor and throw cuffs on every alderthief u see because no matter what charge you throw on a piece of paper I'm sure their good for it, then hop over to 35th ............oh please.
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