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

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

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As he tells it, Randall Hinton is paid $93,803 a year to do nothing.

He spends much of his workday at the State Insurance Fund donning headphones, listening to rock 'n' roll, blues or classical tunes and his superiors are cool with that.

His work agenda involves placing his feet up on his desk, staring out his office window and counting cars on the New York State Thruway. He arrives at 7:30 a.m., leaves at 3:30 p.m., sees no one and talks to no one.

He never does any work. It's been this way for Hinton for most of this decade.

"I just sit here," said Hinton, 55, of Niskayuna, a 27-year state employee who has held several high-level posts at various agencies.

At 6 feet 4 inches and 265 pounds he is an imposing figure who will begin to tear up when he discusses his situation. A member of the Passamaquoddy Tribe in Maine, he said he is being discriminated against because of his national origin and retaliated against for having sued the state.

Since February 2002, Hinton has been director of investigations for the Insurance Fund, but he said he has never been allowed to investigate anything. Instead, he builds up pension credits, year after year, but is unproductive at work because his superiors are blackballing him, he and his former boss say.

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.

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Originally Posted by wolf (Post 530902)

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.

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.

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Originally Posted by lookout123 (Post 530919)

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

maybe where you work

Yep, another reason I'm self employed.

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Originally Posted by lookout123 (Post 530919)

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

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.