By Sara

January 18, 2010 11:49 PM | Link to this

quite interesting read. I would love to follow you on twitter. By the way, did anyone learn that some chinese hacker had hacked twitter yesterday again.

By noneya

November 18, 2009 9:05 AM | Link to this

To those of you who think this was done on break and lunch. NOPE he did all this and still took a break and lunch on top of it. Now if they had added up the 12+ years he was doing this that would have been more accurate.

By wakeup

November 18, 2009 7:09 AM | Link to this

Think about it! Do we need a Local,County,State,and Federal Government(s) and a taxing school system(s)?? I think its time to rid ourselves of a few of these institutions or else start making these so called leaders accountable and start putting these crooks in jail!!

By Check out Troy

November 18, 2009 7:07 AM | Link to this

Think this is bad - what about an employee in the City of Troys engineering office who does this routinely as well as cutting favors an breaks to the developers and builders that he works for in the evening and on weekends

By pot

November 18, 2009 12:40 AM | Link to this

whether it be calling mom or real estate sales this is happening in every business everywhere. We are killing ourselves and no one gets the picture. wake up the job is ours to keep or loose

By null

November 18, 2009 12:18 AM | Link to this

Some of the post on here supporting this kind of thing must be from x GM workers . Guess what that’s why you don’t have a job now .

By yadda

November 17, 2009 9:16 PM | Link to this

so you don’t think he actually took a break during work to eat lunch? He only used his 1.5 hrs a day for personal business and didn’t also take a lunch break?

By 1.5 hours

November 17, 2009 8:50 PM | Link to this

So this comes out to 1.5 hours a day. His 1 hour break and his 2 15 minute breaks. so he ran the business on his break time 560/17 months 32 hours per month, 32/20 work days is 1.6 hours per day. How is this theft if thats how they choose to use their lunch breaks?

By right

November 17, 2009 8:04 PM | Link to this

Wonder how many state workers on disability are working fore cash under the table or operating a business in someone elses name??????

By Burb Dweller

November 17, 2009 7:30 PM | Link to this

If my calculations are correct that is almost how much break time he receives per day. I think there are bigger things to worry about. Poor judgement maybe, but I am sure worse things go on and it may all be on his own time at work.

By Sarah

November 17, 2009 5:49 PM | Link to this

@Jokes on You - obviously you are NOT getting the point - this is a STATE employee. My taxes pay their salary. A private citizen doing this at their job is a fireable offense - it is called THEFT. The ODOT employee has a union and will (more likely than not) NEVER be fired. Go open your own business and have someone pull this stunt - lets just see how quickly the joke is on YOU! You will be quickly out of business.

By Jokes On You

November 17, 2009 3:51 PM | Link to this

Everybody loves blaming the “government” for everything. So, if you don’t work for the government, it’s OK to talk on your cell phone, check your personal email, comment on DDN blogs, etc… on company time? (for those of you who have jobs) Fact is, everybody does scandalous sh*t at work, government employee or not. If the story would have been about a private employee running a real estate business, nobody would have cared, no matter what the annual salary was. Peace out, turds.

By xugrad96

November 17, 2009 3:27 PM | Link to this

TO WTF: They said it was pay AND benefits. The benefits make up a big chunk of that money. But your point is very very valid. No matter what they were making per hour, we got screwed. And who makes over 1,000 calls a month on his cell???? Almost 18,000 calls in 17 months?? Talk about WTF!!!

By Bob

November 17, 2009 3:24 PM | Link to this

WRC… Bet you a doughnut you work for the government in some fashion. Yea you’re right. The article doesn’t have anything to do with health care… AT THE MOMENT. It does uncover just how loosely managed government agencies can be.

By wrc

November 17, 2009 3:10 PM | Link to this

Hey idiots this has nothing to do with health care.ODOT handles roads so to included health care into this topic is just STUPIDITY in the highest degree. This can happen anywhere,only reason you heard about is cause they got caught.Probably happens at your health insurance company,you just don’t hear about it cause they keep it quiet on their firings.Quit your senseless bashing as this article has nothing to do with health care.

By Useless Employees

November 17, 2009 3:01 PM | Link to this

And chances are good he will never be fired for defrauding his employer, the taxpayers of Ohio. Instead, we’ll hear about administrative proceedings which inevitably will suspend him and /or force repayment but he will still leach off us. Wouldn’t happen that way if he got caught in the private sector.

By Bob

November 17, 2009 2:49 PM | Link to this

I agree! Another example of why government has no business in healthcare. What if these guys were nurses, lab techs or doctors? How safe would you feel?

By I'M IN THE WRONG BUSINESS

November 17, 2009 2:38 PM | Link to this

I wonder how they knew the time spent on their “personal” cell phones?

By steve

November 17, 2009 2:38 PM | Link to this

How would the state be able to confiscate the personal cell phone records for this?

By Anne

November 17, 2009 2:21 PM | Link to this

Those wage figures include benefits. The state doesn’t actually pay workers that much an hour…maybe the high, high up management, but not regular workers.

By Now you get it

November 17, 2009 2:08 PM | Link to this

Now we all can see the light as to why our gov. should not be running health care.

By WTF

November 17, 2009 2:01 PM | Link to this

WTF IF IM DOING MY MATH RIGHT THE FIRST GUY MAKES OVER $40.00/ HR. AND THE 2ND GUY MAKES OVER $62.00 PER HOUR. AND PEOPLE WONDER WHY OHIO IS F**!