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(Daily Mail)   Irish railway executive complains that he's been paid a six figure salary for a decade to sit at his desk and read a newspaper. Did no one tell him about Fark?   (dailymail.co.uk) divider line
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replacementcool
2022-11-30 6:15:47 PM  
14 votes:
what a farking idiot. 

Take some books to work, bring your laptop, do some online courses. I would happily do nothing for 100k a year.
 
Carter Pewterschmidt [TotalFark]
2022-11-30 4:45:49 PM  
10 votes:
If he's fired can I apply for the job?
 
Carter Pewterschmidt [TotalFark]
2022-11-30 7:34:38 PM  
8 votes:

Boomstickz: Carter Pewterschmidt: If he's fired can I apply for the job?

Running a rail network on a island, with a non standard gauge that can't connect to anything?


If it's on an island it doesn't have to connect to anything....
 
chitownmike
2022-11-30 6:45:34 PM  
5 votes:
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fredbox [TotalFark]
2022-11-30 8:35:57 PM  
5 votes:

trerro: Find something creative you can do at your desk, and either get a second income, or just make something you want to make (bonus if you the second becomes the first). If they're going to pull the "we're giving you no duties because you'll expose our bullshiat, but we can't fire you because you legally exposed our bullshiat" maneuver, then so be it. Make sure you clock in on time, and do whatever you damn well please while you're on said clock.


Of course, making money elsewhere while working from the company is probably a legit fireable offense.
 
Gubbo [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2022-11-30 5:06:53 PM  
4 votes:
I give him credit for sticking that out. I'm going into a month where I have 3 days work and the rest of the time I'm sitting at my desk, and I'm dreading it.

/major client gave us 6 months notice
//waiting for either a replacement or to be let go and paid off
///95% sure they're trying to get me to quit instead
 
trerro [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2022-11-30 8:20:17 PM  
4 votes:
Find something creative you can do at your desk, and either get a second income, or just make something you want to make (bonus if you the second becomes the first). If they're going to pull the "we're giving you no duties because you'll expose our bullshiat, but we can't fire you because you legally exposed our bullshiat" maneuver, then so be it. Make sure you clock in on time, and do whatever you damn well please while you're on said clock.
 
gameshowhost [OhFark]
2022-11-30 5:17:52 PM  
3 votes:
*trying to think... at what income i'd be willing to do that for a decade*

/when i was a younger lad i went bonkers at a jorb much like that within a few months, @ ~$55k/yr in 2022 dollars
//spent most of the day on every jobsite in existence ( -_-) jfc was it soul-sapping just SITTING THERE 8 hrs/day
///so. ten years @$100k/yr. i mean... dude is making decent money but... for ten years?
//goddamned office jobs.
/how about i work from home and i'll do it for half.
 
Boomstickz
2022-11-30 6:59:49 PM  
2 votes:

Carter Pewterschmidt: If he's fired can I apply for the job?


Running a rail network on a island, with a non standard gauge that can't connect to anything?
 
jso2897
2022-11-30 9:07:51 PM  
1 vote:
I've known guys who ate sandwiches.
 
wildcardjack
2022-11-30 9:16:35 PM  
1 vote:

fredbox: trerro: Find something creative you can do at your desk, and either get a second income, or just make something you want to make (bonus if you the second becomes the first). If they're going to pull the "we're giving you no duties because you'll expose our bullshiat, but we can't fire you because you legally exposed our bullshiat" maneuver, then so be it. Make sure you clock in on time, and do whatever you damn well please while you're on said clock.

Of course, making money elsewhere while working from the company is probably a legit fireable offense.


Not if you use a pen name. 8 hours a day writing would turn out an e-book a month.
 
BlazeTrailer
2022-11-30 9:44:20 PM  
1 vote:

replacementcool: what a farking idiot. 

Take some books to work, bring your laptop, do some online courses. I would happily do nothing for 100k a year.


The online courses, yes. Learn new skills so that when you get out of there you may be making 85-90k, but you'll be engaged in your work.
 
mcmnky
2022-11-30 10:44:23 PM  
1 vote:
Really, this guy is complaining about being paid too much to do nothing? Does he also complain about how his penis is too big, how he's too busy having sex with the swedish bikini team, leaving no time to spend his billions?
 
Cormee
2022-12-01 4:49:42 AM  
1 vote:

Boomstickz: Carter Pewterschmidt: If he's fired can I apply for the job?

Running a rail network on a island, with a non standard gauge that can't connect to anything?


He's just a mid -level manager, not an executive. Irish Rail employees are insanely overpaid. One guy I knew was paid €l80k, for shunting trains around a yard, took redundancy early with a massive payout, and al pension that would be most people's working wage.
 
Cormee
2022-12-01 9:02:41 AM  
1 vote:

Cajnik: Cormee: Bondith: Boomstickz: Carter Pewterschmidt: If he's fired can I apply for the job?

Running a rail network on a island, with a non standard gauge that can't connect to anything?

[Fark user image image 122x144]

I think his only job was chastising the engines when they farked up.

I reckon that guy was farking Alissia Botti on the side, doing the dirt in his wife. Not bad for a fat fark

I love how is name is "The Fat Controller"

The 1980s were a hell of a decade


It *was* his name - he's Sir. Topam Hat now, unfortunately
 
Cajnik [OhFark]
2022-12-01 9:47:49 AM  
1 vote:

Cormee: Cajnik: Cormee: Bondith: Boomstickz: Carter Pewterschmidt: If he's fired can I apply for the job?

Running a rail network on a island, with a non standard gauge that can't connect to anything?

[Fark user image image 122x144]

I think his only job was chastising the engines when they farked up.

I reckon that guy was farking Alissia Botti on the side, doing the dirt in his wife. Not bad for a fat fark

I love how is name is "The Fat Controller"

The 1980s were a hell of a decade

It *was* his name - he's Sir. Topam Hat now, unfortunately


They still call him the Fat Controller behind his back
 
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