Via Reuters comes this gem:Bored Canadian bureaucrat begs for escape, C$1 mln
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."
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.
"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.
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.
($1=$1.16 Canadian)
I'll tell you what, potential donors, if you want to spend your hard-earned cash, send it to me. That sap can at least find another job if he's bored and he can volunteer with local charities. I'm poor and on permanent disability due to illness and have no idea how I'll even feel from one day to the next.
Why send it to a person who claims they need big bucks just to be compassionate when you could actually have a direct impact on someone's life? Seriously, send your money to your favourite charity and tell that bureaucrat to get a life and to be grateful that he's still healthy enough to do so - unlike some of us.
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