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| Bored bureaucrat begs for escape |
| 2006-03-26 |
| Mass. pols take note... OTTAWA (Reuters) - A bored Canadian bureaucrat fed up with office drudgery is seeking C$1 million ($860,000) in donations so he can quit his job and "do something that makes a difference in my life and the lives of others." Yeah, he must work for the government. He wants everybody else to pay for it. Maybe they can make him an honorary Palestinian? The unnamed man, who claims to have worked for a large civil service organization for over 10 years, has set up a Web site -- saveabureaucrat.com -- on which he explains he is desperate to escape his job. "After a while it starts to sap the energy and soul out of you and you realize that you have become a true bureaucrat ... I feel like an old curmudgeon frustrated by having to deal with paper being passed around at a snail's pace," he writes. Welcome to the club, bub. It's a big one... "Retirement will free up my time for volunteer activities such as tutoring children and counseling people who are going through rough patches in their life. On a daily basis I will be a much more pleasant person to be around," he adds. I knew it. It's..."for the children". Despite promising not to spend donations on "Rolls-Royce cars, 10 bedroom houses, airplanes," the bored civil servant has quite a way to go. As of Wednesday morning, five sympathetic souls had sent in a total of just C$59.26. Proving that there is one born every minute... |
| Posted by:tu3031 |
| #8 Oh, sorry, donations can be made through PayPal on my website at www.fire-on-the-suns.com No purchase necessary. |
| Posted by: FOTSGreg 2006-03-26 18:57 |
| #7 Ummmm, I'm a poor, underpaid security officer at one of the nations' leading laboratories nestled 850-ft above the city of Berkeley, CA, one of the most leftist, liberal, socialistic cities in America. I can't leave my job or California because of the paltry wage I am forced to contend with just to live and keep a roof over my head (and that of my poor sick mother and her poor sick roommate and our two old doggies) and the high cost of living in California. Please, send me money so I can relocate to somewhere more conservative and lead a lifestyle more fitting to that which I would like to become accustomed. Please, send me money so I can get the hell outta' California and away from Berkeley. If I can collect at least $100k I'll be able to get away from here and start a new life. That's not even $1 million. Please. I'm begging everyone... |
| Posted by: FOTSGreg 2006-03-26 18:55 |
| #6 lol "honorary Palestinian" Hey I'm tired of my job ya wanna give me some money so I can get out of my job? |
| Posted by: Jan 2006-03-26 18:03 |
| #5 Well, he's entitled to his entitlements. It's a Canadian public worker thing. Those of us who haven't sucked at the public tit for a decade, pulling down the most for the least, wouldn't expect the world to sympathetically hand over a million dollars to this Homer. We would have quit when the job didn't meet expectations and looked elsewhere. |
| Posted by: Thinemp Whimble2412 2006-03-26 15:51 |
| #4 He almost has enough for a Saturday Night Special and a box of bullets. |
| Posted by: ed 2006-03-26 15:04 |
| #3 He needs to join the Christian Peacemaker Teams. Someone might actually rescue him. |
| Posted by: john 2006-03-26 14:43 |
| #2 You know, I'm not aware of any Canadian law that prevents him from leaving that boring job. Just saying. |
| Posted by: lotp 2006-03-26 14:29 |
| #1 Sounds like the shtick Al Franken used to do when he was almost funny. |
| Posted by: xbalanke 2006-03-26 14:27 |