State employee: I get $93,803 for no work
 

Ok this is just crazy. What a story. Obama should give him a real job.

http://timesunion.com/AspStories/sto...storyID=767070

It wouldn't be so bad, except he has no internet. :eek:

I live near there and years ago I did a lot of subcontract work for various state agencies. He is far from the only one who doesn't do jacky during the day.

I'm sure there are a few who do get work done, but 99% of them give the rest a bad name.

Although I have some ethical issues for not working for pay, I'm sure I could overcome them.

Why, oh why, can't I get jobs like this? I could probably not work for 2/3 his rate.

Yah. I had to hand over some of a city project that we were contracted to do, to a kid at the city level. He sat at his desk for two days.....Waiting for me to call him.

I questioned him after that to see if he was for real. Yah. That is all he had been doing. I am glad I made time to connect with him before the week was out. Dumb.

i think that would suck ass.

the last few months have been slow here...the last few days, painfully so...


the last time i was this bored, i started smoking again for something to do. (I won't jinx, i swear!)

just a friendly warning LJ - management also frowns on masturbating at your desk.

I spent two months working in a DoD office. The two (non-military) Federal employees that I worked near never did anything but arts and crafts. Totally ridiculous.

maybe where you work

Yep, another reason I'm self employed.

Finally somewhere appropriate to put this! (@ SG: Pegg alert! Pegg alert!)

It would be one thing to get paid to do whatever you want. It's another thing ENTIRELY to get paid for a job that consists of sitting at a desk ALL DAY with nothing to do. It's basically high-salary solitary confinement. I think I'd go insane... I'd rather do manual labor. I'd be signing up for every single one of those State-run programs that lets you take time off work to pull ivy out of trees or pick up trash on the beach. DAMN.

@Dana, I love the tissues on the floor. Nice touch.

Well I am paid to do nothing at work when there is nothing to do. When work is expected I am required to immediately on my game 100% all the time, every time. At least I get job satisfaction out of what I do when I do it and no guilt when I am doing nothing in between. But work does come and perfection is expected every time. The down time between events is variable. Some days I do nothing for 24 hours. It happens but is not frequent. Glad to be employed either way.

For what that guy's getting paid, I'd do anything in an office, up to and including nothing.

Boy, the reading I'd get done. Only the most expensive gilded hardbacks, at those wages.

At $93,000 a year, you ought to be able to afford a very nice laptop and a satellite internet card, at the very least. Hell, you could start your own business and run it out of your office there.

I would totally take $94k/year to not work. Heck, they can pay me to not work anytime. The government has been paying farmers not to work for decades.

We have some farmers over here receiving drought assistance while their properties are flooded.

I find that rather interesting.

I do a lot of handicrafts.

The office has better lighting.

My bro is on only a little bit less.

He's on a year contract for The Treasury.
For the first MONTH he was quite unhappy there. Reason? There was no-one available to train him. Reason? The previous IT guy in his position had quit and the others in his dept were either far junior or far senior.

It's sorted now, but he was really peeved that he was being paid for nothing to start with. Oh and that he had to commute for an hour plus in order to do so.

He could probably get fired for that, and then the awesome gig would be over.

Wow - someone has outdone George Jetson!

I couldn't do it.

If I could bring art and craft projects to the office and work on them during the day, I'd be fine... I'd still be working, just working on something fun of my own choosing. I might work on my writing. It would rule to be paid almost $95k to write and work on arty/crafty stuff!

However, I'll say this; my ex was fired from a Dept of the Interior job for too much extracurricular activity, when he didn't have any work to do. Yep. Fired for NOT doing nothing, when there was nothing to do. Many offices apparently have rules against surfing the Web, writing a book, or spinning yarn during office hours. If I had the option of converting my office into a personal art/writers studio and get paid while doing it, I would be hell of on board! If my only option was to read book after book for 8 hours a day, for ten years, I think I would look for a job that paid half as much and actually gave me something productive to do. I love to read... just not THAT much.

Or I would learn to sleep in my chair so that I could spend my waking hours doing something interesting.

I think there are other issues besides the lawsuit stigma.Why hadn't he taken the tests? Didn't feel he should have to? or wasn't allowed to?
So they would give him something to keep him busy but it's not what he wants to do.Sounds to me like it's a combination of politics and his ego are the root of the problem.
I think both at the time of the lawsuit, and now, he's playing the race card rather than looking at the possibility that he may be impossibility irritating.

I had a job once that barely involved work.

It was at American Olean Tile in Lansdale (the Color Tile people). I was one of 13 data entry operators. We were expected to key 600 entries a day. I was doing okay until I noticed that the terminal allowed me to record keystrokes as a macro, then I could chain them together to form a loop, pausing only to let me enter the two characters that changed from price book to price book.

AHA! I went up to 6-8000 entries a day, put the rest of the operators out of work and, once I really got the hang of it, could change every price in two and a half days. My supervisor was ecstatic and assigned me every change there was. He even forgot to add in a pallet charge once and I went back and redid them all (four books worth) in two more days.

The rest of the time I read books, took four-hour lunches, even days off (with pay yet). As long as the work was done, he didn't care.

Then the end began. He got canned for harassing the female workers in another dept. No one else at the company knew I was there. My desk was away from everyone else and behind a carrel. For two more weeks I kept my head down, had HR sign my pay slips and took a lot of time off. Then someone looked up when signing for my hours, said the job had ended weeks ago and let me go. Darn!

I almost miss keying little to nothing for $10.50/hr!

Of course, now I have student drivers to drive for me and I get paid for those miles so I can surf while they work and get paid for it, so I can't complain.

Me too. It's pretty easy to entertain myself. :D

BTW - just got round to watching the Big Train clip, Dana.
The Pegg doesn't have to wank in the office!
I'd sit under his desk and service him for free :)

Nom nom nom.

lol dirty girl!

Eh, I think he is playing the Big Dude Card. Those guys will get away with anything.