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andydp
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 Posted: 03/25/06 - 07:19 Post subject: Oh those wonderful Canadians !!!
Here's a new way of doing it...
Bored bureaucrat begs for escape online
23 March 2006
OTTAWA: A bored Canadian bureaucrat fed up with office drudgery is seeking $C1 (US $ 856K) million in donations so he can quit his job and "do something that makes a difference in my life and the lives of others".
The unnamed man, who claims to have worked for a large civil service organisation for more than 10 years, has set up a website – 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 realise 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.
"Retirement will free up my time for volunteer activities such as tutoring children and counselling 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.
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 $C59.26. (US $ 50.75)
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airehead
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Posted: 03/25/06 - 13:21 Post subject:
WTH?
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Cappy
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Posted: 03/25/06 - 14:32 Post subject:
I wonder if his first name is Steve 
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JACKED UP
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Posted: 03/25/06 - 14:41 Post subject:
| Cappy wrote: | | I wonder if his first name is Steve |
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gretriever
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Posted: 03/25/06 - 16:19 Post subject:
| JACKED UP wrote: | | Cappy wrote: | | I wonder if his first name is Steve |
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I could get your records up on the bozo-puter, and making things, um, interesting.. 
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andydp
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Posted: 03/25/06 - 16:21 Post subject:
| JACKED UP wrote: | | Cappy wrote: | | I wonder if his first name is Steve |
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Hey the article says "Canadian". Besides I know from personal experience Steve does not say "eh?" He does however drink beer.
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