Posted on 10/27/2009 9:19:56 PM PDT by Saije
Bored Boston government workers are goofing off on Facebook and other popular social networking sites on taxpayer time, boasting of napping during meetings, playing “Mafia Wars,” creating anagrams of their names and planning Halloween costumes.
The poster girl for the on-the-clock cyber-slacking is Amy Derjue, who earns $39,000 a year as Boston City Council President Michael Ross’ communications director.
The former Boston magazine blogger regularly updates her personal status on Facebook and Twitter throughout the work day, brazenly joking to her online pals about snoozing at a hearing, writing snarky comments about the reality TV show “Jon & Kate Plus 8,” opining on an article about Boston being one of the best cities to meet guys and babbling about her Halloween wig.
“Amy Derjue is going to sit in the Council meeting and nap,” she wrote on Facebook at 11:49 a.m. last Wednesday. The next day, she spent the morning complaining about her chilly City Hall cubicle on Twitter. “Somebody bring me a hot coffee and fluffy sweater, please,” she wrote at 9:32 a.m.
***Other Facebook junkies include:
Mac Daniel, the $93,000-a-year communications director of the Massachusetts Convention Center Authority, posted an item on Facebook during one apparently lazy summer workday that showed his name as an anagram for “I’m a candle.” Other workday musings included a YouTube video of comedian Louis C.K. and rants about the World Series and GOP Rep. Joe Wilson - who famously shouted “You lie” to President Obama during a speech.
City Councilor John Tobin’s $71,000-a-year administrative assistant David Isberg plays a Web-based game called “Mafia Wars” almost daily on Facebook during regular work hours.
Johanna Sena, a $49,000-a-year community liaison for Ross, bantered with Derjue on Facebook about prescription drugs and coffee one recent morning, and their cold office another day.
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$93,000 a year to do what??
clip newspaper articles? Set up interviews? Call the sitter? Send the sitter flowers and candy? Fly the sitter with him on a junket to Rio?
/sarc
I see it at City Hall in Chicago, too; and that’s after they have furloughed non-hourly personnel (who aren’t members of unions). The city slugs also seem to like e-Bay and MySpace. They work soooooo hard for their $75,0000 - NOT!
Is that a typo? She only makes $39,000 a year? If that’s true, I don’t blame her for goofing off.
If we dumped all of these useless slobs, killed social programs of all kinds, and stopped sending assloads of aid to countries around the world that won’t work toward feeding themselves, I wonder how quickly we could pay off the eye-popping debt we’re in.
“Is that a typo? She only makes $39,000 a year? If that’s true, I don’t blame her for goofing off.”
I don’t know, there are a lot of unemployed people right now who’d probably be happy to make that, don’t you think? Plus the benefits are probably pretty good.
ME! ME ME ME ME ME! MINE!
It’s customary to end stupid remarks with /s if it’s not obvious.
I’d guess many on FR log in and read from work or when they’re otherwise supposed to be doing something else. The test is whether the work does or doesn’t suffer from the diversion. Like social chat with co-workers, does it refresh the mind or “become” your work instead.
Of course no newsstory like this will end well for the worker regardless.
Pay your taxes: we need a raise. :D
I Frrep at my office, take a laptop and Freep on the road or out on a job. I Freep at home. I’d go bonkers if I couldn’t Freep.
I’m Freeping now, and I’m at my office. But I work for myself so I’m making myself work late for screwing off.
Me too.
Then you've got a work ethic that stinks.
Another thing: $39,000 a year in a paid position is the real-world equivalent of closer to $50,000 a year. A self-employed person would have to make at least 50 grand in order to equal the $39,000 position's paid vacations, paid holidays, paid sick days, employee-matched social security contributions, payroll taxes, and probable group health insurance discounts that accompany this person's $39,000 salary.
It's sure disturbing to see the entitlement mentality so indidiously entrenched that the person who has it doesn't even know it. Anybody who earns $39,000 a year is entitled to one thing: working hard to earn the dough.
what a hoot. someone was actually watching.
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