Woman sues over "Nothing" job

[brooklynite]

By FREDRIC U. DICKER

December 28, 2004 -- ALBANY — A State Liquor Authority employee is being paid $82,789 a year to sit in an office and do nothing all day, so she passes the time by reading books and daydreaming, it was revealed yesterday.

Patricia Freund, a career state worker who says she was once one of the highest-ranking women at the SLA, also said she spends more time speaking to the janitor at her Albany office complex then she does speaking to one of her bosses.

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Freund, who is Jewish, says she's being punished for raising questions about the emphasis put on Christianity at a nondenominational "prayer breakfast" sponsored by Gov. Pataki in 2000.

Freund said she was "pressured" by her bosses to attend the breakfast, which the governor has sponsored annually since he took office in 1995.

Freund said she was then "offended" when, after the breakfast ended, she was given a "memento" bearing Pataki's name that included many quotations from Jesus.

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Pataki's prayer breakfasts came under intense scrutiny earlier this year after The Post revealed that he had hiked the cost of the event to as much as $1,000 a table after announcing First Lady Laura Bush would attend. Pataki was also forced to register the breakfast event as a charity with Attorney General Eliot Spitzer's office after The Post disclosed the governor failed to so during his first nine years in office.

http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/37329.htm
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Gee, didn't she get the memo that this is a Christian nation???

[IronLionZion]

1. she doesn't need to suffer any more, I'll take her job

:P

[Midlodemocrat]

2. I agree, for the love of God, stop that woman's suffering

...I, humble person that I am, agree to step up to the plate and do nothing for $82,000+ per year. It is a dirty job, but someone has to do it.

[quiet.american]

3. Nice work if you can get it n/t

[gnofg]

4. don't understand

The thing with these republicans is that they protect the majority. They have absolutely no understanding of life as a minority. It is their ordained rite.

[fob]

5. The reporter has an awsome name, F. U. Dicker!

Hey if only I could get paid $7000 a month to read DU and daydream, I'd be somewhat close to my pre-bush* sanity level.

[Javaman]

6. This woman, in a word, is a moron.

She's so offended by the Jesus remark fine. I think them giving her nothing to do, is a windfall for her.
So, let's see here, she files a compliant, gets a lump some and stops working. Or she continues here job at 82K a year with benefits and probably a retirement package, plus a 401K.
Which would you pick?
I'd continue to take the 82K and walk in, put my feet up on the desk and catch up on reading, take a computer online college degree, write that novel, start a business, to many things that she, in her infinite wisdom, hasn't thought of.
She's a boob.

[American Tragedy]

7. Awwww, poor baby. Why doesn't she switch places with me?

She should work in a psych ward for minimum wage under extremely stressful conditions, exposed to constant verbal abuse and occasionally frightened for her own physical safety. I'll tell ya, it was never boring there!

Plus, instead of having to go to the trouble of suing someone else, she gets sued on false charges and watches her future job and academic opportunities systematically destroyed by a vindictive employer before she's even reached the age of twenty!

:nopity:

[Chimpanzee]

8. Talk about a solution in search of a problem!

[Javaman]

9. If anything, this womans complete exposed pataki as the theif he is...

"Pataki was also forced to register the breakfast event as a charity with Attorney General Eliot Spitzer's office after The Post disclosed the governor failed to so during his first nine years in office."


9 fucking years!!!! prick!!!! Wonder where that money actually went...