Video Update: Meet Another City of Miami Bureaucrat Loafing on Your Taxpayer Dime
Listen up, City of Miami big shots: You might want to start punching the clock on time and putting in an honest day's work.
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​Because union chief Charlie Cox has his cameras rolling after busting an assistant director in the building department named Christine Morales, who had fired a couple of union employees for being late to work.
Morales -- who pulled in a $112,000 salary -- quit after being videotaped waltzing in late to work and cutting out early after a leisurely lunch. (She still receives a sweet $36,000 annual pension.)
The experiment was so successful Cox decided to expand his target to other lazy assistant directors. Shock of shocks: Morales wasn't the only boss living on a six-figure taxpayer dime who didn't like earning her cash.
Cox provided Riptide with tapes shot by a private investigator showing an assistant director in Risk Management -- Elliot Fixler, who made $160,000 a year in pay and benefits -- regularly ripping you off.
Click through to read some highlights from Fixler's average so-called workweek. And check back to Riptide tomorrow for a video compilation of Fixler's laziest moments on your payroll.
July 23
9:23: Wearing what looks to be the same yellow T-shirt from the day before, Fixler emerges from the SUV. Replay of dress routine.
12:14 p.m.: Fixler walks toward his SUV. Before even reaching the door, he rips the shirt off.
12:37: Predictably, Fixler merges into the luxury lanes and heads north.
July 24
Perhaps fresh out of yellow tees, Fixler just stays home.
Cox's detectives rarely caught Fixler putting in more than four hours of work at the city offices. Not a bad gig if you can get it, right?
In a bit of poetic justice, Fixler lost his job in the city's last round of layoffs in August. He didn't respond to calls or a phone message left at his Palm Beach Gardens estate.
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