Five Sanitation Department bosses got into a heap of trouble yesterday when they decided to join a former colleague for a casual, home-style lunch yesterday in Queens.
The five — including one of the agency’s 59 district superintendents and four supervisors — were slapped with fines and had complaints placed in their personnel files for taking an overly-long meal break. In some cases, they traveled outside their assignment areas to chow down at the Middle Village home of Joseph Siano, a retired borough chief.
Siano told The Post the lunch wasn’t a big deal.
“If they happen to be in the neighborhood, they break for lunch,” he said. “That’s it. They’re all friends of mine.”
First Deputy Michael Bimonte saw things a bit differently.
After learning that some of the supervisors had traveled from neighboring districts without permission and had stayed until as late as 11:45 a.m. — beyond the 11 a.m. cutoff for their meal period — he docked them any pay past 11.
Since some had been scheduled to work until 2 p.m., that meant the lunch ended up costing them as much as $150.
The district superintendent was identified as Hans Bandison. The names of the four supervisors were not released.