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State Employee Skips Work On Friday For 17 Years

Posted by samzenpus on from the I-wouldn't-say-I've-been-missing-it-bob dept.

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."

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  1. Uhh... by kainewynd2 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    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...

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    1. Re:Uhh... by pushing-robot · · Score: 3, Funny

      You'd think they would have at least noticed when he started running for president. It's like he wanted to get caught.

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  2. There was an even worse case by George_Ou · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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.

    1. Re:There was an even worse case by Daniel+Dvorkin · · Score: 3, Insightful

      The continued existence of these positions contribute to maintaining the membership and revenue of the union to which all of these crucial civil servants belong. It is imperative that these unions continue to enjoy increasing and unassailable power forever, and you are well advised to cease your questioning of this policy.

      In private industry, there are organizations that allow people to draw enormous salaries -- much larger than any state employee will ever make -- without doing any actual work at all, for years at a time. These organizations generally go by names like "board of directors" and "executive suite," and interestingly, they spend much of their time trying (successfully, as comments like yours show) to convince people that unions are the root of all evil. Why do you suppose that could be?

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  3. For the love of Cthulu help me by lul_wat · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Why with firehose articles if I click to read a comment it reloads the whole page and only shows that comment?? Then I have to go back and reload the whole page to see comment subjects In normal slashdot articles it just makes space for the comment on the page

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    1. Re:For the love of Cthulu help me by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

      Same with idle aricles. Very annoying.

    2. Re:For the love of Cthulu help me by clone53421 · · Score: 2, Informative

      Strip “idle.” out of the URL and it kills off the Idle-styled CSS/javascript buggery.

      http://slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&type=story&sid=10/04/16/2021221

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  4. Re:Sounds like by dustman81 · · Score: 2, Informative

    Hal was charged with embezzlement for allegedly bilking his company out of millions and placed under house arrest. Hal casually mentions to Malcolm that he has played hooky from work on Fridays for years. The evidence presented in court against him was that all the events occurred on Fridays. Once Malcolm realizes this, he has his father find all of his pictures and tickets of him playing hooky, which were time stamped on the Fridays that the embezzlement took place, thus showing that there was no way Hal could have been embezzling money. Of course, Lois was furious that he had been skipping work on Fridays and now since he had admitted to skipping work, had lost his job.