I-Team: City Work Crews Caught Not Working
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- Опубліковано 28 жов 2018
- A FOX 8 I TEAM hidden camera investigation has found Cleveland city work crews going out to jobsites late, quitting early, and taking long breaks.This comes after Cleveland City Hall raised your taxes and promised more and better city services.
“Work zone?” “You guys haven’t been doing anything “ lmao savage
I was about to comment the same exact thing!!! lol he got them good 😂
That's why his boots look new
I was court ordered to 180 hrs community service 30 yrs ago
I choose DPW... 'I couldn't believe what i was experiencing !!,
Supervisors 2 hrs late, walk in, bltch about the coffee maker, walk around the garage ...only to notify other ''workers'' he'll be back at 3,
he has to run some errands!
seemed like everyone did their grocery shopping ,
taking their kids to get hair cuts ,,,
Employee driving the city car dropping them off at mechanic shop picking up the wifes car!! ON THE CLOCK
F-UK-N ! unbelievable !!
then the Bus driver shows up around 11am, '
drinking coffee with 4 other employees while we sit on stacked up barricades, from 7:30 till noon, then we get on the bus, and drive around doing errands with the bus driver
One of the GUYS TALKS HER INTO STOPPING AT THE L.I.Q.U.O.R STORE!!!
we picked up a half a bag of trash along a roadside 20 mins later bus honks and were on our way back too the shop, 180HRS... i worked less than 5hrs
I never got over that ...
I can hear that meeting..... "hey guys, just don't get caught next time".
ROTFLMAO!!! 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
constable 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂right
Right 🤣🤣
Can confirm as a fellow city employee, that's about the gist of the meetings following an incident like this. What people dont realize is that management and policy basically makes it impossible to work a normal shift..
And there is nothing we could do CU's everybody has a relative working or a piece of ass. Hate to say it but
Government speak, "Internally, we will deal with that".
Normal people speak, "Were not going to do anything".
Any real good boss would know where the supervisors are and they would be definitely on the ball but those workers at all times but that's a real good boss.
Lol so sad it’s funny.
We're?
This is what all city workers do . I live in Boston and if it weren’t for subcontractors hired by the city, nothing will get done. City workers do as little work as possible and are in a system that encourages it . Great pay for little to no work
It's not the workers most of the time. 99% of the time its impossible to be productive because all the money for tools, material and OT to finish projects on time is all embezzled by the higher ups.
Same around the world mate, they are a bloody disgrace.
According to the article 4 years ago must be slow day at the office
We have that in Australian government, even the tax department do it, if something is difficult and requires expertise they literally pay an external "consultant" to do it!
GO UNIONS!!!!😢
“The buck stops here!”
*continues to pass the buck back to management”
Our motto is:
"We Don't Only Cut Trees,
WE Cut Corners TOO!"
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My late dad (who actually did his work as Municipal Transit Utility shop foreman) use to make note of the fact that whenever you drive past city crews on a job site that there was 1 guy with a clip board, one guy down in the hole shoveling, and 4 guys leaning on shovels.
Sounds like you're down with a pretty decent guy. He raised you well.
Yeah. Each person has a specific job. Laborers, welders, equipment operators, environmental hippy, inspector. I thought the same thing until it was explained to me. The utility folks showed up across the street at 430am for an emergency gas leak and the same crew was there until almost 3am the next day. Now I understand the madness
@@robbycatalina226 got to love that sweet overtime pay.
there was plenty of that going on, on fortuna a couple of blocks east of coors summer/fall 2022.
Your dad wasnt to smart if he was throwing his bread and butter around in the street. And your less bright for making light of something that kept a roof over your head
Why not follow our politicians. That's real news
That would be a boring show! They don't do anything!
@@glenncurley680 ahahaha!
Fire them and replace them, alot of people need jobs
They will not fire them they are black, they get special treatment. I retired from a city job and the supervisors were scared to death of black workers, all they had to say was I'll take you downtown and the supervisors would tremble in their shoes. And they talk about white privilege BS.
Why are you guys already got to make this about a black and white thing. Just because the guy in the video is black? It could’ve easily been a Hispanic or white guy you would’ve seen in this video and nobody would’ve said shit about race. Stop making everything about race.!! SMH
Strap them with cameras, and then thier supervisor can review...or a computer that is linked to payroll
Juan Yaotl Torres
It doesn't matter who replaces them. It will happen time and time again over and over and over. Why? Because it starts from the management. The management does this too and so, it trickles down from the top to the bottom of the city work force... lol... Just listen to the
DIRECTOR of the PUBLIC WORKS being COCKY and ARROGANT in his conversation with this TV guy... I am pretty sure he only works 2 hours and does nothing the rest of the day watching TV in his office. lol... This is not to say ONLY GOBERMINT WORKERS goof off at the job, but it happens with the GOBERMINT workers MORE OFTEN and ALL DAY and EVERYDAY. And the tax-payers wonder why their city is always running out of MONEY... ROTFLMAO!!!! 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@n/a Yeah, that not true.
There’s your problem. The city manager.
Road crews always work like this. You'll see one guy working while 5 are standing around with a shovel. For hours on end, the norm.
That’s unions for ya
In Maine too
I live in Wisconsin. During a cold stormy winter day, I came upon a county snowplow sitting idle on a country side road, driver sleeping in the cab. Taking the chance he had his communications broadcast (CB) radio on, I switched mine on and called, “ wakeup and get to work! You don’t get paid for sleeping on the job. I know you have miles to cover before quitting time!” He went back to work.
I wonder how many of his brothers cousins nephews and grandkids work under him I bet a lot
Timothy Taylor
You don't have to bet or guess... Most of the people working under this HEAD OR DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS are his RELATIVES. lol... Just look at all them politicians and their relatives... Let's see... John F. Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, Ted Kennedy, Jeb Bush, George W. Bush, George H. Bush, Donald Trumps son in law, daughter in law, etc, etc, etc, etc... lol... Need I say more... lol...
It’s called nepotism.
@@bobbyluster9831
That's not Nepotism
@@fabianavalos1386 Nepotism; the practice among those with power or influence of favoring relatives or friends, especially by giving them jobs.
**"DON'T BEAT AROUND THE BUSH-TELL US HOW YOU REALLY THINK"**
"Excuse me sir, you're in a vacation zone"
Reporter: "What exactly is your vocation?"
Worker: "Yes."
Lol
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The 34 mins is getting their tools ready and safety meeting talks
Yah, Ill give them that much. But since their getting back 2 hours earlly, all that would of been done already. City workers in general have bad work ethics.
End of day service equipment and vehicles. Safety first.
Haha yeah right stop making excuses
Safety meeting aka smoke a blunt
We're going to have one of the managers look into this...as soon as we can locate one.
My dad used to work for the highway department in Nevada. 34 years he would go home after everyone else did not just to prove a point but to make them worth those hours they're supposed to and also show them the right way to do a job. My dad passed away and they all came respectfully to his funeral. Integrity is everything you either do it or you don't. Thank you Dad
Did you have a stroke while writing that?
Punctuation lady, learn it.
Lol you think his co-workers saw that and thought "Gee Frank does it the right way, I'll start doing that too" 😂
Noooope they could care less, as long as they finish and get paid they're taking their ass*s home
If the managers fail to manage the crews under them, fire them immediately . If it continues fire the head of public works. This is blatant theft of taxpayer dollars. Prosecute these thieves and make them pay restitution to the city. The same should be for the managers.
The code word is management by walking around! Have each section chief put out a plan for the week and a supervisor go out and monitor the progress then monitor the supervisor. Just like your thermostat does. This is the result of a lack of supervision. They know that they are not being monitored.
After seeing the Director I can see why , nothing new & NOTHING will ever be done !
He looks like a slick willie.
Gasp!
LOL... internal investigation.. "You broke the first rule of public service.. getting caught"
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This has to be one of the most incredible pieces of journalism I've ever seen.Civil service workers slacking off.Who ever would have thought this could happened.It's only been going on since the beginning of governmental workers.Thanks for letting me know something I've knew when I turned 3 years old
It's good, but shouldn't be considered incredible. It should be the norm, but it's not.
@@NBGTFO That was sarcasm
Oh so only civil service workers slack off. The politicians you voted for are screwing you to death not only with what they are stealing , but with what they vote into law and you have the ordacity to call out a guy who takes an unauthorized coffee break . You sir are the fool
"Internally, we'll deal with that." Translation: Just drive the trucks around, boys. Don't park those things like that.
I bet the city's director is the laziest one among all the workers, that's why he don't seem to care that they were caught because he know he doesnt work at all. How arrogant he sounds blaming on his managers.
Ocho A nobody will get fire at the end
He is getting paid to sit around and being called director.
**"CALLED AFFIRMATIVE ACTION EMPLOYEES!!!!!!!!!"**
@@dwartfarquarg6595 guarantee it
He said the book stops here but that's a bunch of BS...... The reporters should just tell him: Porque no tu callas?
I expect nothing more from the City of Cleveland...the mayor sets the tone and Mayor Jackson is next to nothing as a person of action...
Work zone? You haven't been doing anything. 🤣🤣
I was a City Parks Supervisor, I was lucky if my crews actually worked 3 hours in a 8 hour day.
When I put the hammer down on them, I got a call from Human Resources telling me not to make them work. I put in my 2 weeks notice the next day.
We'll deal with it. We going to get you boys a raise. Keep up the great work. We have family reunion Saturday now, don't forget!!!
Start at the top and fire every one of them and start again
We're are they gonna get workers after that
@@liljaystaysflossin4499 home depot my ppl will do this in their sleep lol cx
They wont police themselves and people wonder why postal delivery people are being attacked *today* .
I'm 70 yrs old and from Cleveland. As far back as I can remember, it's always been that way.
When I grew up and traveled about, I found that it wasn't limited to Cleveland, nor to the US. You should see how "foreign nationals" scam the US government overseas!
Think about that whenever your elected officials "need" more money. Could you run your business or family like this?
This kind of corruption and fraud is in every department of every city. One example that comes to mind is the city HVAC inspectors who are paid to inspect new installation but would claim the homeowner wasn't home or he called and no one answered the phone, so the homeowner has to re-schedule for another day when in fact the inspector never showed up much less made a call to the resident..
To stop this from happening , when caught once they all get terminated with no unemployment and no pension.
There’s a video on here of a town that majority of their city services are all done by private contractors and they save money. The work actually gets done too. They had a survey of how citizens feel of how their city services were and they got a 100% satisfied.
This is hilarious...i remember doing "community service"with a street crew years ago..40 hours in one week...i did MAYBE 8-9 hours of actual work....the street department manager asked me to come back and fill out an application after I got my legal troubles taken care of...a lot of city workers are on easy street..the ones i respect are the winter broken water line workers...Thats no joke
@Tom G get outta here...ive seen lazy in all colors..fool
@Tom G Careful, your ignorance is showing. 0:40 white guy 3:10 White guy
@Tom G I can't speak for anybody else's race but I'll tell you I'm half white and half black but I've seen white people commit crimes I've seen white people in jail I've seen black people commit crimes I've seen black people in jail I've seen black people paying their bills and buying houses I've seen white people paying their bills and buying houses so I'm not sure exactly what your argument is mr. Tom I'm not going to come out and call you a full-fledged racist because I don't know you but it does seem to be you follow some stereotypes pretty closely which in my book is pretty doggone ignorant
@@jonathantyree8172 He's trying to provoke a conflict.
When that guy says 'this is the exception not the rule' I call BULLSHIT!
"They are working hard" hahahahah
That's a big truck to hide while shopping.
Never shit on your own time, never sweat on city time
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Great job by the reporter and his team. Can't say the same for the tree trimmers and their crew.
We all do this in corporate America, city and county employees.
Wrong. In the private sector, there would be companies going out of business due to simple competition. City workers only compete with themselves. Your "wisdom" is lacking. "Corporate" America has shareholders to keep happy so they have consequences if they doin't produce. You truly have no clue comparing this government work ethic with the private sector. Just curious; democrat? LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Fire all of them
tina davis fire them,and the same will continue,..accountability issues will forever be of a concern,follow the money,and who is in charge,they are even more corrupt
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Fire them all, and get some one who want to work.
At the meeting there be like " boys take a 30 minutes lunch instead of a hour and 15 minute break instead of a 2 hour break " haha...
Toronto, Ontario, Canada. I'm 63 years old now. At 18 we had a huge snow storm. Toronto hired an extra helper for each truck clearing sidewalks of elderly/disabled. $8.00/hr! Min wage was $2.00! Hired for 3 days. 7AM start. Left yard 7:30. Went to a diner. 1 hour. First house. I hit that packed snow with a gusto! Snow came off in neat, packed sheets! Easy! Told to stop and use up salt on back of truck. Was actually MORE work with that method and I was concerned that possibly elderly would still be somewhat trapped for another day! Soon break time. One hour. Maybe 3 more houses. Lunch. Hour and 15 mins. More houses but this time the 'foreman' spent more time knocking on doors to see if elderly had a son or daughter capable of doing the snow. A game to him. Break. One hour. Couple of more houses. Back to yard. 2:15! I asked what should I do till 3 PM punch out time? Hang out in the bathroom where I found about 20 other guys like myself smoking and killing time. - All this was a defining moment in my life. I never worked in a union environment again! I was downright ashamed of taking that money!
"I can' do dat." Really? Why not?
Why don’t these reporters ever film the politicians? They spend more taxpayers than these workers
Prime Soundz No one should be allowed to steal taxpayer money!!!
Robert Fernandez I never once argued against that . These workers steal less money than politicians and politicians write the laws
Prime Soundz You can vote out politicians though.
Robert Fernandez lmao sure you can . If that’s what you wanna believe
Prime Soundz, they spend more taxpayers?
"How can you look into that camera and tell taxpayers you're doing a hard day's work?"
By not looking at the camera and saying nothing.
The director is just as guilty seeing as he will not follow and verify that the work is done and that statement had a very strong feeling of arrogance to it as if he were just too good to actually do his job!
They should all be fired
It's just like getting a union job. you have to know someone. Just like getting a job working for the city, you have to know someone. I wonder what those "someone's" get away with as well!
Nope, nowadays it's not like that..all.you have to do is apply and score high on the exam.and do well in the interview. That doesnt mean knowing someone wont give you the extra edge though, as is the case in all walks of life.
@@jerrelCbanks He must have failed the exam
That director is just as lazy as the employees on the street and obviously nobody is working in that government.
Not just that city, happens in Indianapolis as well.
And people want the government in heath care.
What is heath care??
Can you do the same for Congress? Or the Oval office for that matter.
The work crew learned that from their management, which is "getting paid for doing nothing"
This is exactly why most jobs like this should be "bid" out to private companies.
Same over here in the UK with the tree trimmers. Must just be a worldwide thing.
I believe it because the UK in the United States run their business the same way
4:00 Nothing will happen.
*They will just run up a $50,000 set of meetings to figure out how to still do nothing about it.
Hell, that's the same where I live. City crew drives around all day.
Here in Bataan, the City Employees are so happy to have a Job, they even work overtime without pay to Prove they are Worthy of that Job. Even the Mayor of one city will be seen on Saturdays out picking up trash to help keep the streets clean
IMAGINE THAT!!
No Surprise!!!
Fire The City Director And Management And Start All Over!
"The Step Latter Effect"
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I say instead of paying these guys by the hour, pay them by the tree and see how fast they work.
Unfortunately these men make all city workers look bad. I’m a retired city worker (not from this city) and yes we had our share of lazy workers. But we had several hard working men and women ‘giving it their all’ to make sure the service to the city was done properly. Our work force continued to shrink when retired workers weren’t replaced, always excuses of not having the money to hire new workers. So some workers weren’t going to do much more than they did when there were more workers. Public isn’t notified about the worker shortage. So they see these lazy workers and believes all workers are lazy because they feel they aren’t getting services done quickly. And yes their unions cover them. Just a bad situation all around.
That's city workers for ya. I seen a streets department crew. 5 guys standing around while 1 guy is using the jackhammer
They should look at the meter of the chipper how many hours they used to got to be smart
the chippers meter is broken, the citys mechanic has been trying to fix it 24 hours a day for over a week now....he said he's close to finding the problem
Internally we will deal with that! Sounds like bonuses all around to me!
It gets worse than this. City of Toronto had many "shadow employees." These are workers on the payroll, but never show up to work. Also, in the City of Hamilton, road crews were out paving people's residential driveways for extra money, meanwhile getting paid by the city also by the city for work never completed.
So whats new fire them all plus the foreman whos a ghost check there duty logs ♣
The problem is Cleveland is democratically run for hundreds of years
Lies!!! Cleveland has had Republican mayors unlike Chicago
Brandon sorry I hurt your feelings I wasn't talkin mayors you all them in your governor been a s******* for a long time wake up I know you proud to be from Cleveland I'm proud to be from a s******* in Milwaukee Wisconsin but it's still a s******* I'm honest about it
Gordon KAUFERT unmmm I am not from Cleveland but get your facts str8... Ohio has had more Republican governors...
this is so funny, it brightened up my day.
Thank you for exposing them
CULTURE OF INCOMPETENCE !!!! From the old man in the suite to the young man in his neon jacket.
Culture?
@@duckfiden6925 I notice the pattern in the comments as well
Just got to make sure that people don't mix this with the guys working on the road where you always SHOULD see at least one person just standing and looking around. That guy is there for a reason, he's the lookout should a potentially dangerous situation approach to warn other workers about said situation. Worked as a wire runner for a time and had this duty thrown at me when I was recovering from a minor injury. Believe me that that job sucks more than doing your actual job. It's boring as hell and hard to keep doing. Think of it like those palace guards who have to stick in one place, but easier because you can move and stuff, but ya still got to be paying attention all the effing time or you get called out for it by any passing big-wigs (mainly OSHA or management).
Thanks for exposing those lazy city workers.
I actually had a coworker of mine quit from the City of Cleveland’s City Works department because they would drop them off to do work, her and one other person would do all of the work and the rest would stand around and bullshit around not doing shit. Then her supervisor would take the truck and leave them for a few hours to go god knows where.
The city is lucky they even show up man!
This is common in most jobs everyone is entitled too a few screwup days, as long as no one is getting hurt. And in this case work is getting done only at a slower pace. Look I was a city bus driver and I myself had some slack off days hell I used to bring my bus home
Wow! City workers standing around like a bunch of city workers.
Great! Curious what you’d find them folks in congress doing or not doing.
What did they all have in common? Hmm
I keep noticing a common factor on all of these investigative clips... notice it yet...
hahahahahaha
We love going after the weak because we can. I like to hold people who are higher up on the food chain responsible.
I work for a council in Scotland and i am worse !! My shift is 7.30am- 4pm and work about 2.5hrs a day. My manager just does not care he just wants to get paid. The whole department is corrupt with some staff not even turning up at work but still being paid. Been this way for years. One day i had a sore head and fell asleep in the car at 1pm and woke up at 7.30pm and got paid 4hrs overtime because i finish at 4pm.
A bunch of "dindonuffin's" managing a bunch of "dindonuffin's"
Stfu....where you find that name at "storm front"
you got that right that is the real problem
They’re hiring... go work there racist.
@@isaiahcoleman967 I already got a job and facts aren't racist
Coffee and doughnuts come to mind.
Not sure why people just can't be clear when they speak. "In what way will they be held accountable?" "If we find out they are not doing their job they will be let go." "In that way!" That's a very easy statement to say. Simple. We will fire people and replace them with better workers if need be and we will also do this with Managers as well.
Goldbrikers.
What does goldbricker mean slang?
A goldbricker is someone who's getting paid for work that's not actually done despite giving an industrious appearance. Goldbricking most often refers to employees who goof off on the job. They use company time to scour the Internet, chat or text, or perform personal tasks.
Black's big surprise
Everytime i drive by a crew like that i see 1 person working and 5 people standing there.
At my job they called me names when I do my best job
If you follow around the chief interviewed on this video secretly, I'll bet you will see him do an hour or hour and a half of actual work per day at most. This is why most government run offices are all failing. Look at the IRS. There are still millions that have not gotten a Stimulus Check from 2020 and we are in 2022. Yet, the super rich organizations can get things done for them instantly with one phone call. But, we the tax papers sometimes have to wait an eternity to get basic service. Here in New York City, we see city workers doing nothing all day too. They get paid between 25 to 35 dollars an hour to spend most of the day talking to their co-workers unsupervised or on their phones. There is no accountability in government.
Not in this city, but in my city, I saw two city workers take 4 hours to change a no parking sign...not the pole, just the sign. Two screws and one sign.
I would be way more shocked if you caught them working.
Damn shame have a good job and can't do the work. Fire their asses all of them including that damn head of public works.
Excellent reporting from a bulldog reporter. Thank you!
Director of Public Naps
Start from the bottom and work your way up. Time to clean house and trim the dead wood.
Will Smith You got BACKWARDS -- YOU START AT THE TOP AND WORK DOWN. -- LOWER GUYS ON TOTEM POLE JUST DOING WHAT THEY'RE TOLD
Public job : low oversight: minimum of work possible: good benefits = union , yes there are union workers that do work hard, just not for any public union
This is verry rare cause everyone and their grandma know that Blacks are the hardest working race EVER.
Use to do construction projects. Same city supervisor over four years would do our inspections. One time I looked in the backseat of his City vehicle and saw a bunch of books. I thought to myself that was odd. Just happened to drive by at about 2 pm one afternoon nearby this city park and out of the corner of my eye I saw this same city inspector with his City vehicle parked under a tree. I did a 180 and came back around and drove by him very slowly. As I drove by he did not even notice me. His head was face down in a paper back book. For weeks I went by that same city park and there he was. So, this clown was taking the afternoon off to read novels on the taxpayers dime.