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The New York Post<\/em> says that a state worker in charge of running a corrections department food facility took Fridays off… for 17 years. Now they’re going after him for $230,000 worth of Friday pay, as well as other “ill-gotten” gains.<\/p>\n From the NYP:<\/p>\n [The worker] “freely admitted” to playing hooky from the state’s Food Production Center in Rome, the report found.<\/p>\n “This certainly gives new meaning to the phrase ‘casual Fridays,’ ” [the state comptroller] told reporters yesterday.<\/p>\n “He not only dressed down, he didn’t even bother to show up. Quite simply, this is outrageous.” Other perks mentioned in the article include billing taxpayers for “75 stays at the local Quality Inn on nights E-ZPass records suggest he was at home.”<\/p>\n
\nThe watchdogs blasted correction officials for either approving — or failing to catch — a host of perks that appeared intended to compensate [The worker] for taking on a new responsibility for a food facility in 1992 without getting a raise.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n