Hard at work or hardly working? Whatever the answer, you might want to keep it to yourself.
The longtime communications chief for New York’s court system was recently fired after accidentally telling a reporter that he hardly ever worked. And with an annual salary of $166,000 that news did not sit well with the higher ups.
David Bookstaver was let go after he unintentionally dialed the phone number for a reporter at the New York Post. The reporter’s voicemail then caught him conversing with a co-worker saying quote I’m not doing anything. I barely show up to work.” The 58-year-old has been planning on retiring in October but after the post published the recording online his last day came a lot sooner than expected.
In the same recording Bookstaver can be heard saying that with the appointment of a new chief judge came a new public information director. And since then Bookstaver says they took away a lot of his responsibilities but not his pay check. But now thanks to his loose lips, they’ve taken away both.
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