Lt. John Murrell, perhaps one of the community’s most visible deputies in the Manatee County Sheriff’s Office, worked more than 52 hours of overtime over a 16-month period, but didn’t put in for it.
So he gets suspended for three weeks.
What?
That sort of thing --- working OT and not claiming it on one’s time card --- has become part and parcel of having a steady job and wanting to hang onto it in this lousy economy.It might even earn you a plaque from the company for dedication and devotion and all that.
Not a three-weeks suspension without pay.
What's the expression?
No good deed goes unpunished.
I realize the MCSO has to operate within certain rules and regulations, and it behooves it to avoid entanglements with federal labor officials.
But this is overkill.
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