[OB1kNOb]

H3LL! I can show you one that makes $400K annually plus perks.

[FReepaholic]

..."I don't know how I could get through the day without my iPod," Hinton said...

What, no Internet? I'd sue.

[MittFan08]

I’m a bit disappointed in this story. This guy is obviously a unique case due to his past disputes with his employer. I was hoping this story would be about one of the hordes of employees in both state and federal government who spend all day doing nothing even though they get along fine with their bosses.

[Drango]

a second-class employee with fewer resources than even the lowliest Insurance Fund worker. "I have no Internet access, no printer, no laptop, no car.

No car? That's way harsh.

[agere_contra]

What a mincing gayboy.

I wouldn’t mind earning that kind of dough for doing nothing. I would make myself useful, not count the damn cars.

[bgill]

I can't take it anymore."

So quit already and get off my dime!

[Domandred]

I, apparently, am in the wrong line of work

[digger48]

"I was told that I could listen, to the radio at a reasonable volume from 9 to 11... well, I... I told Bill that if, if Sandra's going to listen to her headphones while she's, while she's filing then I should be able to listen to the radio while I'm collating so I don't see why I should have to turn it down because I enjoy, listening, at a reasonable volume, from 9 to 11... "

[listenhillary]

I see debt people

How many more zombies inhabit our government?

[martin_fierro]

Howie’d get a kick out of this.

[eeevil conservative]

May I have his problems- PLEASE!?

why hasn’t this dude written a book or something? geeshk-

[Osage Orange]

My guess...is this guy has a huge chip on his shoulder...and has threatened to sue at every turn..of his career.

Maybe I'm wrong...but that is my take.

[absolootezer0]

Hinton said he has handled hundreds of investigations in the past and is trained as a watchdog to weed out theft, abuse and waste in government

obviously he hasn't investigated himself.

[Blind Eye Jones]

ping

[perfect_rovian_storm]

"I have no Internet access, no printer, no laptop, no car. Every day it's a struggle for me to bring in something I haven't read or listened to. I can tell you how many white cars pass on the Thruway . . . I can't take it anymore."

You make $93k a year doing nothing and you live in Niskayuna, which is one of the nicest neighborhoods in the capital region. Get a damn wireless laptop and bring it to work, ya cheap fool. You get paid 93k/yr plus benefits and a handsome retirement package by people like ME who work their asses off to afford to live in this Godforsaken hellhole, all so you can do nothing but count cars all day and you're COMPLAINING about it? Get real.

[Flycatcher]

I'm embarrassed. Nobody cares. They don't care about Indians."

Yes, another "victim" of our racist, oppressive society -- but one who pulls down $93,803 a year to do nothing.

[Upstate NY Guy]

Isn’t that the Albany Times Union? Link shows as Times Union of New Jersey.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

"I want my dignity back," Hinton said

Then quit. Simple.

[TChris]

He responded by e-mail, copying several Paterson appointees, that his agency does not appreciate diversity, that he has been denied work and stripped of his dignity.

"I want my dignity back," Hinton said in an interview before returning to his corner office in the back of the Insurance Fund's district office along I-90 East.

The moment you decide that someone else controls your dignity, you have lost.

[mass55th]

"They don't care about Indians."

I worked for NY State for almost 33 years. I got news for Mr. Hinton. They don't care about anybody. The trick is to live long enough to retire. He's got enough years in, and he's the minimum age to retire. He should just put in his papers, and get on with his life. Take it from someone who knows...the aggravation isn't worth it.