Remember the Peter Principle? Clearly this guy has risen above his level of incompetence. (As have I but don't tell anyone!!!)
City takes nearly 11 hours to send crew to broken traffic light.
Traffic was backed up for over a mile because instead of fixing the light in the middle of the night with no traffic the city waited until rush hour. And why you ask:
The night shift was eliminated in January to save money and was replaced with an on-call roster that had rules about who could volunteer for overtime, said the employee, who asked not to be named for fear of reprisal.
The electricians' union contract requires everybody to be available for overtime. But the manager supervising the electricians instituted a rule in August that only electricians living within 30 minutes of the workplace could volunteer for overtime, according to the employee.
The manager was Paul Jackson Jr., a former division chief who led the city's botched response to the December 2008 snowstorms and who figured prominently in a yearlong human-resources investigation into the department's street-maintenance division.
And people wonder why conservatives maintain that so much of government is a waste.
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