{"id":4221,"date":"2009-01-05T09:55:48","date_gmt":"2009-01-05T14:55:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=4221"},"modified":"2009-01-05T09:55:48","modified_gmt":"2009-01-05T14:55:48","slug":"sounds_like_the_greatest_job_ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/01\/sounds_like_the_greatest_job_ever.html","title":{"rendered":"Sounds Like The Greatest Job Ever!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/seven\/01042009\/news\/regionalnews\/weekday_at_bernies_147067.htm\">What happens when the boss is under house arrest<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Every day, dozens of employees of swindler Bernard Madoff&#8217;s firm report to their Midtown offices. They&#8217;re still paid &#8212; but they do no work. <\/p>\n<p>The phones at Madoff Securities are turned off. The few computers that remain aren&#8217;t plugged in. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s pretty bad,&#8221; one employee said. &#8220;We can&#8217;t conduct any business. We basically get there at 9, hang around, and go home at 5. It&#8217;s surreal. It&#8217;s also scary, because we don&#8217;t know what&#8217;s going on. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re basically just sitting around and waiting for the call that dismisses us,&#8221; he said.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What happens when the boss is under house arrest: Every day, dozens of employees of swindler Bernard Madoff&#8217;s firm report to their Midtown offices. They&#8217;re still paid &#8212; but they do no work. The phones at Madoff Securities are turned off. The few computers that remain aren&#8217;t plugged in. &#8220;It&#8217;s pretty bad,&#8221; one employee said. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76,68,62,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all_over_but_the_shouting","category-follow_the_money","category-followed_by_a_perplexed_stroke_of_the_chin","category-well_what_did_you_expect"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4221"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4222,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4221\/revisions\/4222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}