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State Employee Skips Work On Friday For 17 Years
Officials say retired New York prison food services director Howard Dean had a really hard time waiting for the weekend, so he skipped work on Fridays for 17 years. Dean made sure, however, to include those Friday hours on his time cards. The extra hours and bogus travel expenses netted Dean nearly $500,000, according to officials. From the article: "State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli and Inspector General Joseph Fisch said their investigation found Howard Dean, 64, of Locke, bilked the state Treasury of about $230,000 by skipping work at the state's Food Production Center in Rome every Friday for 17 years but claiming the hours on his time cards, the New York Post reported Wednesday."
found Howard Dean, 64, of Locke, bilked the state Treasury of about $230,000 by skipping work at the state's Food Production Center in Rome every Friday for 17 years but claiming the hours on his time cards
Maybe they should look at the management during his time there as well? Just a friendly suggestion...
I just don't get... eh, ugh... never mind. This post wasn't worth the research I put into it.
There was a woman who worked (for San Francisco I think) on night shifts. She would come in and punch in, go home and sleep, come back in pajamas to punch in during break, then come back to clock out. She did this for several years. Of course the real question is that if no one missed her all those years, does the city really need this position in the first place.
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Divide a cake by zero. Is it still a cake?
This was likely agreed on a handshake back in nineteen-dickety-six. Heck, the guy has probably got a fishing boat and a lifetime's supply of Cubans (cigars, gardeners, whatever) written into his pension.
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They did this in an episode of Malcolm in the middle, Hal the dad was on trial for, like bribery or corroption or something, but then all the supposed proof all happened on a friday, it turned out to be a setup and they guy had the proof of everywhere he had been playing hookey at on fridays, like the zoo and county fair and stuff.
he should be working monday through friday for 5 to 10 to make up for it.
It said he was a director. That's upper management. These folks usually aren't too heavily scrutinized as there aren't too many steps up the ladder till you get to the top.
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He was the supervisor. Being a director there, he really would have very little direct supervision, if any, more like a board meeting once a week or month
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It's actually pretty easy in most places, if you know how things work, and have an eye for cheating the system.
I'd guess in his position he had the opportunity to travel to sites on a regular basis. It would be easy enough to schedule to be at a site say Thursday and Friday. When you get there, tell the people at the site that you are scheduled to be there for only Thursday. Finish up what you're doing Thursday afternoon, and enjoy your 3 day weekend on the clock.
I usually didn't have that luxury. Since I usually work with servers, if I'm vising a site, they're expecting to see that a server went down here and there on the scheduled days.
The less important your job is, the easier it is to hide. "Oh, I was over in another department when you didn't see me." or "Oh, I was in a meeting with [someone who has lots of meetings all day and gets nothing done]"
Serious? Seriousness is well above my pay grade.