How would you like to stay at home and do nuttin’ and get paid more than everyone else at your place of employment. Well if you worked for were employed by BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit – San Francisco’s mass transit system), you could be.
With a gross salary of more than $333,000, BART’s highest-paid employee last year wasn’t its general manager, police chief or a worker who racked up gobs of overtime scrubbing grime from filthy train seats.
It was someone who did no work at all for BART in 2012: Dorothy Dugger, the agency’s former general manager who resigned under pressure more than two years ago.
Kewl. She resigned under pressure and she’s still the highest paid “employee”. Love them gummint jobs.
Under a lucrative retirement scheme, Dugger, 57, quietly stayed on the books, burning off nearly 80 weeks of unused vacation time, drawing paychecks and full benefits for more than 19 months after she agreed to quit in May 2011, according to an analysis by this newspaper. By remaining on BART’s payroll, she accrued almost two extra months of vacation, while sitting at home drawing a six-figure salary for unused time off.
Even MARTA here in Atlanta is not that corrupt. That title goes to Atlanta Public Schools.
The months of extra pay were on top of the $920,000 that BART paid Dugger to leave after the agency’s board botched an effort to fire her by violating public meetings laws.
“Wow,” said James Fang, a BART board member who tried to oust Dugger. “She was still on the payroll? I did not know this. It’s startling.”
And it’s nice work if you can get it.
Update: Peggy U. sent me this link to an interview with this gummint parasite in 2008. I started to reply in the comments, but was having so much fun that I decided to add it to the post.
Some of the lowlights.
Goal yet to be achieved: To secure an adequate level of funding to meet our legacy responsibility of reinvesting and maintaining BART.
Ripping BART off really goes a long way towards achieving that goal.
Like least about job: Not having all the financial resources we need.
Because she’s busy ripping off BART.
Pet peeve: Waste of any kind.
She’s the epitome of waste.
Greatest fear: On a personal level, disappointing people. On a global level, that we will not figure out a way to settle differences without resorting to conflict.
Your personal fear has been achieved. You have disappointed people. You’re a typical gummint worker.
Characteristic most admired: Generosity of spirit and action.
I’ll bet you just love BART’s generosity.
Characteristic most deplored: Deceitfulness.
So, do you deplore yourself?
How do you deal with disappointment: Try to dig deeper into the cause and understand my role in it.
I guess that’s why you had to be forced out of your job with BART.
How do you deal with stress: I tend to ignore it and push on through.
That’s prolly why you ignored your incompetence and had to be forced out of your job. Stress? What stress. Even unemployed you make more than anyone else at BART.
Most influential book: “The Death and Life of Great American Cities,” by Jane Jacobs.
You’re doing your best to aid in the death of San Francisco, but quite frankly, they didn’t need your help.
I guess it comes as no surprise that she’s a Dimocrat.
I’m reminded of MARTA appointing a single mother welfare queen as its chairman, because she would be more acquainted with what the riders wanted. It’s too bad that taxpayers can’t be like corporate shareholders who can vote out inept or corrupt board members and officers to protect their financial investments.
Woody – I can remember Boortz going off on that. MARTA is prolly the only mass transit system that is not subsidized by the state. All the revenue must come from fares and a 1 cent sales tax in Fulton and DeKalb County. It drives the rat bastard commies nuts that Georgia won’t subsidize it. And one of the reasons the special option sales tax failed in the Atlanta area was because DeKalb and Fulton County residents did not want to pay another penny for transportation on top of what they’re paying already.
MARTA survives, if you call it that, by getting substantial federal grants, like “stimulus” funds, which represents 25% of its funding.
Yet there is good news today on that front: Feds deny MARTA funding despite crime increase
BTW, $982,450 divided by five officers comes to $196,490 for each one. It’s no wonder that MARTA is suffering financially.
They’re finally admitting that there is crime on MARTA? They’ve tried to cover that up. I quit taking MARTA to the airport after hearing about a flash mob robbing passengers on one of the stops before the airport. Most of those stops are in black communities. I’m a racist for pointing this out.
Another fun fact about BART is that every couple of weeks the escalators leading down to the trains would be out of service in downtown San Francisco. And it was finally revealed that because of large amounts of feces and urine from the bums sleeping on them at night, the gears would jam and stop working.
Check out this interview with Dugger from 2008.
Doing the “right thing” is something that motivates her? She must have a different definition of “right” than I do!
Peggy – Thanks. I used it.
Is she a Dimocrat or what?
This one has to be asshole of the week, Denny.
Not hardly. The asshole of THIS week is a Clapper.
“Bay Area Rapid Transit – San Francisco’s mass transit system”.
This mass transit system serves Richmond, El Cerrito, Berzerkly, Oakland, San Francisco, and some others I do not remember who they are it was not just for San Francisco.
I saw it being built during the late 60’s early 70’s and told that the new temp sales tax to fund it of 2% would only be there during the building of the rail system. HAH, still there and increased over the years.
We always called it BARF, Bay Area Rapid Fiasco.
And we were right, in SO many ways.
Nice that it wasn’t built in Fresno. Then it would be FART.
Fresno has its own boondoggle in the high speed rail line that will be built between Fresno and Bakersfield costing billions of dollars that California doesn’t have.
And that no one will ever use.
Denny- when I sent this to you I was hopin’ it would give you some inspiration. Now, think of how this will work out when they get goin’ on that bullet train in the SoCal desert. I can see it now, how they’ll be payin’ illegals to work as porters and givin’ ’em retirements that pay 150% after 5 years.
Actually the true assholes in this story are the nitwits that wrote the employment contracts for this agency. Payment of accrued vacation is a common practice in the business world, however that payment is made as you leave. Allowing her to remain on the payroll means that the agency must also pay her other benefits as well. If you receive a final check containing a large payment for unused vacation you get taxed at a higher rate than your usual pay rate. Someone at BART wrote a really bad contract, or signed one written by the employee’s lawyer. Typical of an “Independent” government agency. Stupid people doing stupid things with our money.