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Old 01-24-2013, 07:09 AM
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Originally Posted by BobnBev View Post
Toll agents who work triple overtime in their final year so they collect 175% of final year salary in retirement.?????????????????????????????????

You must have made that up. Can you support that statement with facts?
Whitestone Bridge in NY, toll is $6.50 in each direction. Original toll was put in place for bridge upkeep. Now the tax payers pay for all bridge maintenance as the tolls are used 100% to pay toll taker wagers and retirement. NY Times did an expose on this in 2004. Toll takers all refuse overtime when a co-worker is working his or her final year so that the retiring worker gets all the possible overtime. Their contract for retirement pay is based at 80% of their final year salary plus any overtime. So during that last year they work all available OT to raise the retirement pay to 175% of final base pay. They have finally started to resolve the problem with EZ pass lanes (2005).
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