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A Seattle police officer’s extraordinary pay raises questions SPD can’t answer

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    1. skybrian
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      You might want to adjust that considering that everyone will hate you, though, and assume the worst. I would expect it to become quite a bit harder to hire police due the protests.

      You might want to adjust that considering that everyone will hate you, though, and assume the worst.

      I would expect it to become quite a bit harder to hire police due the protests.

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    ohyran
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    So if I read that article correctly the issue is that they need to have a salary and time keeping system marking "Normal Work" hours and "Overtime" that then after that calculate the correct pay...

    That total means he was paid for working an average of 80 hours a week, about twice as many hours as a typical full-time employee. Willis was paid for working between 90 and 123 hours a week for seven weeks straight last summer, according to a Seattle Times analysis of SPD data.

    For instance, if officers work overtime after they finish their shifts, they are paid for a minimum of three hours at the rate of time-and-a-half, according to the city’s contract with the Seattle Police Officers Guild.

    The only way to verify how many hours an officer physically works is to review a paper form on file with the officer’s unit, according to SPD officials.

    So if I read that article correctly the issue is that they need to have a salary and time keeping system marking "Normal Work" hours and "Overtime" that then after that calculate the correct pay based on whatever contract the individual officer has?
    I mean if it would be that this one dude has made a habit of say, stay working for a couple of hours more on a friday night, and that way get the full three day overtime pay - its fairly easy for whomever is his work planning superior (shift commander?) to tell him to stop and the issue is sorted.

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    1. Omnicrola
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      Additionally: Is this 1980? I get that city budgets are tight, but Excel is cheap, Google sheets are free, and timekeeping is a software problem that has been solved in a myriad of ways. I've had...

      Additionally:

      SPD, however, couldn’t say whether Willis physically worked all of these hours because it can’t effectively track overtime that is still filed on paper forms.

      Is this 1980? I get that city budgets are tight, but Excel is cheap, Google sheets are free, and timekeeping is a software problem that has been solved in a myriad of ways. I've had to solve it myself at least twice. It doesn't need all the bells and whistles, just merely digitizing it allows questions like this to be answered easily.

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    Pistos
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    The horse raced past the barn fell.
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    1. joplin
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      I wonder if the title makes more sense to British people because they tend to say "pay rise" instead of "pay raise?"

      I wonder if the title makes more sense to British people because they tend to say "pay rise" instead of "pay raise?"

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