What super human genetic material is concentrated in the bodies of these public sector employees that make them able to function with no sleep? I wonder what percentage of public safety employees at the state and local level have this gene. Can't wait to read about this guy's accumulated vacation and sick day payout when he retires with two pensions. And politicians wonder why most folks don't like tax increases.

One has to wonder who Covino knows, or who in the local political community he's related to. In the real world, Covino would be fired from both jobs and sent off in disgrace. At Massport, he's welcomed back, or so it seems. Clearly Massport's old-time culture of cronyism hasn't changed much since the days when it was a repository for the well-conected and under-qualified. Covino, according to the the Globe, was stealing from both employers by being paid to work at both jobs at the same time. That's theft and fraud in my book.

Nice to be able to get about $80,000 a year each for jobs so "demanding" one person can do both concurrently. Thanks to the Globe for revealing yet another scam that government employees have pulled to steal from the taxpayer. Clearly neither position is worth $80,000 and that is hard to imagine as one would think either a fire "lieutenant" or a paramedic would be, among government jobs, relatively demanding. What does this imply for any other, obviously less demanding, government positions? Government workers are increasingly being revealed as working best at ripping off taxpayers through one scheme or another. That is, for all too many of them, their "full time" occupation. Lets freeze all government pay (and benefits) until voluntary separations from government jobs INTO private sector jobs equals the norm for people changing jobs in the private sector. When that voluntary turnover rate normalizes then taxpayers will know that compensation is reasonably "fair", all things considered. I'd bet it would take about a decade of a compensation freeze before there would be any noticeable movement out of public sector employment to the private sector.

Amazing that Covino could pull this scam and not be fired from both jobs. Such are the rigors of public sector employment in the most corrupt state in the country.