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Miscellaneous See other Miscellaneous Articles Title: Could you imagine getting ill from being paid 100k a year to do nothing? I don't understand humanity, but looking back on high school English something that seemed totally moronic now makes perfect sense -- Sartre's 'No Exit' (Huis clos). People stuck in hell are suddenly given an escape route but manage not to take it! Hell for most people is having to work. Of course for millions, the next hell is not feeling needed anymore once they get their wish and retire. People find 1,001 ways around happiness! NN ‘NYC paid me over $1 million to do nothing’ The city paid a pension-fund employee $1.3 million in salary and benefits over 10 years — but gave her nothing to do, she says. Niki Murphy, who was listed as an IT business analyst, said the managers of NYCERS, the city’s largest taxpayer-funded employee pension fund, refused to let her do any work because she married the former executive director, who blogged critically about the retirement system. “In 10 years, they paid me over a million dollars to sit there,” she told The Post. “Day in and day out. I sat there. I watched movies, I crocheted — right in front of them. I took an online course in computer science — anything to keep myself busy. They made me feel worthless.” The stress of being shut out of assignments and meetings took a physical toll, she said. In 2013, she developed acute ulcerative colitis, an inflammatory-bowel disease. Last year, she suffered a massive heart attack at age 54. After bypass surgery, she returned to NYCERS but still languished in her cubicle. She quit in May, two years before she was eligible to collect her pension. “It became a grudge match. They didn’t think I would last as long as I did,” she said. Murphy said she repeatedly begged for work. “It was always, ‘Yes, yes, yes, we’re coming up with a new project,’ but nothing ever came of it,” she said. A new manager once gave her work, but NYCERS General Counsel Karen Mazza and Felita DiLorenzo, the current compliance officer, nixed it and reprimanded the manager, Murphy said. That manager and others told her: “It’s because you’re married to John Murphy. You can’t know anything that’s going on”........... Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread
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