100 bucks says they all still work for DWP.

Why don’t you do a investigative report on law makers who approve the bills and see if they put in a full days work...... they’re the biggest crooks out there ....

"We'll look in to this." 6 years later: They never looked in to it, they never did anything about it.

I’m actually dead that they dragged that man for eating two large meals lol

They must make really good money to afford to eat out two times a day

Are they hiring? I love Chinese food.

I know what I want to be when I grow up, DWP employee.

Damn anyone's dream job. No wonder it's hard a/f to get hired. SMH!!!

all city and Government workers do the same thing.

"investigation" = "nothing will be done about it but it sounds like it will"

This still happens alot in Santa Monica right next to my job everyday. I see uniform officers and Public works all parking illegally and eating every morning while on the job.

DWP= Down with pancakes

The union will protect them, that is why they pay protection money.

Who eats Chinese food for breakfast?

Chinese food places are open for breakfast? That should b the real investigation here......those fish flavoured waffles are to die for I heard. Who ever woke up and thought of Chinese takeout?

A good Mobile Device Management installed on equipment would solve this problem. And then a supervisor that pays attention to where the employees are and punishes those who take advantage of the system.

In the Chinese soup guys defence, everyone knows that an hour after eating Chinese food your hungry again, Lmao

They "can face anything from a suspension to a firing..." but they won't actually "face" anything. I'm sure that "someone" looked into it and found no evidence of wrongdoing.

If you want to clock in and eat breakfast, be a security guard. 😂

I don't think I could eat Chinese food and then slam a big burger and fries a couple hours later... I would feel like trash all day. Lol

Breakfast is the most important meal of the day lol

The parking guy rated them out cold lol

CALIFORNIA HAS A WORK ETHIC CODE THAT GOES LIKE THIS. WORKERS GET PAID TO WORK 40 HOURS PER WEEK. THIS INCLUDES A STANDARD 10 HOURS PAID MEAL BREAK, 5 PAID SMOKE BREAKS, 3 TWO HOUR PAID GROCERY SHOPPING BREAKS, AND 6 HOUR PAID TOILET BREAKS. THIS IS PER WEEK. AND IT IS OKAY TO CLOCK IN VIA PHONE IF YOU HAVE NOT GOTTEN OUT OF BED YET.

Myself and a few employees were just talking about this the other day. Our boss said we can't stop at the donut shop for even 5 minutes once we clock in and hit the road,he said it isn't right. Look,I can completely understand if you're doing what they're doing or going to sit down at freaking shoneys for half an hour or more which is completely understandable. I'm a grown ass man and we bust our asses all damn day for not really good pay yet we also keep our mouths shut and we produce productivity every single day and always get everything done. Yet we can't stop by and even grab something in the morning from a store for seriously like no more than 5 minutes?? Pshhhhh,like hell I can't and like hell I won't. We ask for 1 simple thing and oh by the way,we hardly ever take the 30 minute lunch we get much less the 2 15 minute breaks we get as well. Companies are becoming stupid.

Whew! That was exhausting to watch. I’m gonna need a break and a snack ...

Awesome investigating journalism!

Seeing this is just a taste of the powerful force for good that the media could be. Sadly this is the ‘less than one percent’.

Some day I too wanna work for the government!

He should investigate CAL Trans, Spectrum Cable and SCE....all crooks

4:39 the smirk on that mayor's face tells me all I need to know. Nobody is gonna be held accountable!!

They need to fire those workers to make an example out of them.

Bahaha,this goes on in every city in every state!

Legend has it that they still enjoy a healthy big breakfast right after clocking in up to this day and the new rate increases are here to stay so either way, tax payers are screwed. Lol

wow and to think that there are people without a job that would love a job at the very least and not take advantage of it.smh....

Greatest place on Earth to work can't beat the pay or benefits

We will investigate ourselves, thank you.

these workers are getting primo pay and benefits, while only working about 3 to 4 hours a day.

Time for the department to place trackers in trucks and monitor the places where they go .this way they check the log book on each truck where they go and how long there there for

This starts at the top down. The reason they thought they could do it and get away with it is because their bosses do it.

What the hell is their to investigate. It’s on film

I work for LADWP, and this kind of abuse pisses me off! Very few employees do this, and the few that do, and get caught, give the department, and all employees, a bad name. I hope these jackasses got more than a slap on the wrist! They knew what they were doing was wrong, and they got caught! Good work!

I won't say who I worked for but I've seen this type of city workers giving themselves long breaks and even sleeping for hours while on the clock at City of Inglewood

How can Garcetti smirk and almost smile?

Great job Goldstein. Keep exposing these crooked employees taking advantage of our hard earned money.

"Oh man, Goldstein's outside" lmao

Hard day at work. Phew ! that was hard chowing down that big bowl.

Sounds like totally inept supervision and management, leading all the way to the Mayor's Office.

This is how the news should be

All Government Agencies Act This Way. Tax Payers Front The Bill‼️

Gotta spend all that money somehow....

They need to investigate the DMV! That place is a clusterfuck of people just doing nothing but making your visits take hours, while they chat away on their phones.

Do news crews put in a full day's work? Or do they horse around while being paid?

Not enough air time to have a story about every time this happens.

Thats why all trucks or cars need gps tracker on them and camera's installed in them to track all city workers like this.

The bigger question is who is eating Chinese food at 8 in the morning?

Give me a frigging break. These are the same guys that get up at 1:00 in the morning to fix a water main break or work a 20 hour day to repair the substation some border jumper drove his stolen car into running from the cops. Guys like this across this nation do more for paying customers off the clock and unpaid than anybody complaining. Gauranteed. Who in the hell cares if they grab some chow before they bail your sorry asses out.

Poor quality management. They know damn well some crews are not productive because they have good crews that are. Just like lazy crews lazy managers do nothing to earn their pay.

I worked for dwp lol just normal for workers not gonna change ever

Holy Cow 🐄🐄🐄!!! Goldstein's the largest standing reporter that I've ever seen before...

They now have cut down their 1 hour breakfast to 30 minutes and their 2 hour lunch to 1:30. When all together, they should only be taking 1 hour. It keeps happening. That's for sure.

Gotta love that taxpayer money at work. It's so common in California to see road workers standing around doing absolutely nothing. Alot of times it's sub'd out work and even those companies will have 2 guys working and 5 more standing around doing nothing. Must have been a profitable bid that was accepted if the company can afford 5 guys doing jack shit while only 2 work. California is ripe for this kind of excess.....sad but it's very common here...

Garcetti says “we’ll look into this”😂 Sure you will. This is Gov in action.

BIG HATIN!! can't even finesse the system in peace! 😞😭

They all should be fine and fired and sent to jail, including the Mayor.

I see a lot of state and county employees here in Oklahoma, doing the same thing on my tax dollars

I work for a public entity. I show up at the agreed upon time each morning monday thru friday ready to work. How management chooses to utilize me is up to them. Somedays i work the whole day, somedays not. I do know that any work given to me by management is completed the same day unless specified beforehand that it could take multiple days. Somedays i finish the job well before my 8 hours is up, in that case my boss says as long as i dont get caught sleeping or steal anything and answer my work phone when called im good.

"They're getting rate hikes, let's slack off and eat some chinese food!" 😂😂😂 No.

Just like Public Workers protest for more pay, the public taxpayers should surround Union Halls and protest them to put in a days work.

Someone should follow the reporter around 😂

Union Employees and Public Works employees are very similar: Entitled and lazy. And I used to be a Public Works employee. I know first hand how super lazy and unproductive these people are. Bad supervision lets it happen. No accountability, until a reporter starts sniffing around.

'I asked the Dept to vigorously investigate this. We'll be meeting over breakfast."

Actually field workers can take breaks in the first and last hour of the day. It does not make sense to climb a 60ft pole 2 hours later to climb down after securing work and taking a 15 min break then climbing back up and unsecured work and continuing. 45 min waste in this process. So union rules say we can break in first and last hour. Try the JFOB where lunches are an hour minimum and breaks are hourly

Lord Jesus keep open up the door s of darkness in justice and in government workers .Amen

Don't rush us. We just ate.

who doesn't always see 3 guys watching while only one guy works.

Just imagine what the big politicians are doing lol Well, it's been a good run America 🇺🇸

Union, bet on it!

Goldstein is here. Oh sht, hide the food 😂

DWP, they have hefty paychecks for using work time hours for themselves. Corruption is like a gangrene...spreads quietly and rapidly. They've been used to that and they have just been discovered. Great!

Wow how dare they! Disgraceful! *flushes toilet and heads back into work*

if you don't fire them you are just as guilty and you should be fired

If were police officers, they would have been given paid time off and then promoted.

Let'em eat their breakfast alone Don't bother'em please!!!🤑🤑🤑🤑

Their dump breaks must be legendary. .

They are workin to make America great again!

What a waste of tax money

Gotta raise the rates. All that eating is expensive . These guys need more pay so they can afford it.

"Oh man, Goldstein is outside"🤣🤣

YOU'RE FIRED! (Vince McMahon's voice) 🤣🤣🤣

GOLDSTEIN WAS A BEAST!!💪

I love how the secret camera person in the diner tried to turn laughs into coughs when the dudes realized they were screwed.

That big boss man didn't have a happy face lol

Can't really blame them... although an hour is overkill, I could see stopping for a coffee, and a donut, but Chinese at 8am?. I work a 12.33 hour shift but only get a 20 minute meal break...

The system is what it is. You're always going to get people who take advantage like this. If we privatize a department like this, they'll make it a part time job with crap benefits and not only will you get slackers but you'll get people who do lousy, sloppy work and create hazards because they have nothing to lose.

This is good news. Based on this they know they don’t need that many workers.

...the ridiculous mayor asked the thieving corrupt city workers to investigate themselves, (and we all know how scared those untouchable employees were about that.) A responsible mayor would demand the names of every city employee shown in the video and then demand they be fired immediately (and charged with fraud,) as well as having their incompetent supervisors fired too!

Chronic misbehavior like that should be termination justification for all of them!

Sweet “work” if you can get it!

And what will happen after this???? NOTHING. Thank you for reporting David.

Why don't we hold all civil servants to the same standard? Shouldn't the Mayor, City Council, Board of Supervisors all be held to the same standard? What about police, firemen, all city workers, Cal Trans, court employees, City Hall employees, etc. be held to the same standard across the board? Shouldn't we extend that to any city contractors as well? Or are we just pointing at a shiny object so everyone misses all the problems that LA has? All of our failed institutions, like LAUSD with it's bloated layers of mismanagement, City of LA with it's unfunded pension liabilities, crumbling infrastructure, bad roads, trash, homelessness, crime, overcrowding, mentally ill walking the streets, prisoners being released early. But wait, ooooh shiny object. I'm not falling for the deception.