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

TheMercenary · 02-05-2009, 11:47 AM

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

glatt · 02-05-2009, 12:15 PM

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

footfootfoot · 02-05-2009, 12:34 PM

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.

wolf · 02-05-2009, 12:55 PM

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.

Cicero · 02-05-2009, 01:14 PM

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.

lumberjim · 02-05-2009, 01:30 PM

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Originally Posted by wolf

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!)

lookout123 · 02-05-2009, 01:34 PM

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

Perry Winkle · 02-05-2009, 02:13 PM

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.

lumberjim · 02-05-2009, 02:14 PM

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Originally Posted by lookout123

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

maybe where you work

footfootfoot · 02-05-2009, 02:19 PM

Yep, another reason I'm self employed.

DanaC · 02-05-2009, 02:27 PM

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Originally Posted by lookout123

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

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

02-05-2009, 02:58 PM

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.

footfootfoot · 02-05-2009, 03:17 PM

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

TheMercenary · 02-05-2009, 08:25 PM

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.

Elspode · 02-05-2009, 09:24 PM

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

02-05-2009, 12:34 PM	#3
footfootfoot To shreds, you say? Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: in the house and on the street-how many, many feet we meet! Posts: 18,449	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. __________________ The internet is a hateful stew of vomit you can never take completely seriously. - Her Fobs

02-05-2009, 12:55 PM	#4
wolf lobber of scimitars Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Phila Burbs Posts: 20,774	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. __________________ wolf eht htiw og "Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception." --G. Edward Griffin The Creature from Jekyll Island High Priestess of the Church of the Whale Penis

02-05-2009, 01:14 PM	#5
Cicero Looking forward to open mic night. Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: New Mexico Posts: 5,148	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. __________________ Show me a sane man, and I will cure him for you.- Carl Jung

02-05-2009, 01:34 PM	#7
lookout123 changed his status to single Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Right behind you. No, the other side. Posts: 10,308	just a friendly warning LJ - management also frowns on masturbating at your desk. __________________ Getting knocked down is no sin, it's not getting back up that's the sin

02-05-2009, 02:19 PM	#10
footfootfoot To shreds, you say? Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: in the house and on the street-how many, many feet we meet! Posts: 18,449	Yep, another reason I'm self employed. __________________ The internet is a hateful stew of vomit you can never take completely seriously. - Her Fobs

02-05-2009, 12:15 PM	#2
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	It wouldn't be so bad, except he has no internet.

02-05-2009, 02:13 PM	#8
Perry Winkle Esnohplad Semaj Ton Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: A little south of sanity Posts: 2,259	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.

02-05-2009, 02:58 PM	#12
Tiki Guest Posts: n/a	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.

02-05-2009, 03:17 PM	#13
footfootfoot To shreds, you say? Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: in the house and on the street-how many, many feet we meet! Posts: 18,449	@Dana, I love the tissues on the floor. Nice touch. __________________ The internet is a hateful stew of vomit you can never take completely seriously. - Her Fobs

02-05-2009, 08:25 PM	#14
TheMercenary “Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo” Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Savannah, Georgia Posts: 21,393	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. __________________ Anyone but the this most fuked up President in History in 2012!

02-05-2009, 09:24 PM	#15
Elspode When Do I Get Virtual Unreality? Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Raytown, Missouri Posts: 12,719	For what that guy's getting paid, I'd do anything in an office, up to and including nothing. __________________ "To those of you who are wearing ties, I think my dad would appreciate it if you took them off." - Robert Moog

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