No disagreement here. I work there for the paycheck and make no illusions about it. Everyone on the entire staff feels the same way. We're absolute professionals, but we hold zero personal loyalty to the city or its citizens. They may be super rich and have the power to crush any of us, but as far as I'm concerned, they're all beneath us.

And, oddly enough, that attitude is why we're good at our jobs. Rich assholes loving together are gonna have disputes, and having a city staff that looks down on them instead of being subservient like their household staff means we're uniquely qualified to make them be better neighbors to each other.

Just this week, I got into an enforcement discussion with an Oscar-nominated filmmaker. It takes a special kind of officious prick to disarm entitled assholes and their lawyers with the power of bureaucracy.

For about 50 hours a week, I am that prick.