[quote=CA renter][quote=sdrealtor]I’m with you on this one but you just slough this one off. Its the lack of accopuntability in the public sector at play here. The LC site screams of developer paying off the city to approve the LC Oaks development by giving them a piece of the most prime piece of land for the fire station. No reason they couldnt have put it on the east side of RSF. While I’m sure the firefighters view them as wasteful I am equally sure they love them and view it as another job perk kinda like foosball tables and Aeron chairs in the dot com era. I cant imagine a fireman ever wanting to leave the station and I’d bet many hang out there in off hours. Its a perk and should be yet another bargaining chip to keep salaries/benefits in check.
Everytime I drive by which is at least daily I wonder when I’ll get my happy hour invite.
I gotta get a nice shot of that station at sunset so the outtta area Piggs who arent familiar with the lcoation could see what I am talking about. I’m not blaming the lineworkers but its obscene that they put the station there.[/quote]
Let’s turn it around again…
If a group of realtors work in an office that is overlooking the ocean, do we get to blame the realtors (not brokers, and who had nothing to do with picking the location or anything else to do with the facilities) for the location of the office? Do they get paid less because they work there?[/quote]
OK let’s do this! From the brokers perspective the cost of an oceanview office will be higher so they will have higher expenses and lower profit percentage. So they make less. The city passes on the cost of the palacial oceanview fire digs to taxpayers so they do not make less.
Now for the the realtors working in the office. As realtors we dont get paid by our brokers we pay them. The broker has higher expenses for an office like that so they pass that on to the Realtors through lower commission splits. So a realtor working in an office like that will bring home less of each commission they earn relative to working in a low profile office. So the answer is a resounding yes! They get paid less because they work there.
FWIW, you really need to make stronger more concise points and stop with the cut and paste that people don’t bother with. As for the earning schedules I dont care what those say because I have seen something far more accurate than summary statistics. I have seen tax returns on at least a dozen public safety workers and not one of them had earnings below $100K over the last 3 years. And that doesnt factor in the huge retirement contributions made on their behalf either. For most it is the equivalent to a $150K job in the private sector.
