Port Authority eliminates 'director' job created for Wildstein

[Laxman]

Damn, and I was going to send in my resume! Apparently, this is really just proof that Christie didn't know Wildstein all that well. Really?

In all the vast history of the sprawling bureaucracy known as the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey there has never been a job like it.

It came with no actual job description.

In the end, it had only one occupant, and he didn’t even have to submit a résumé.

Nobody seemed to have the vaguest idea what he was really doing.

But he was paid $15O,020.

This is a good one:

No one really seemed to know what that business was supposed to be doing. But whatever he was doing, he made it clear he did so at the behest of the governor.

http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2014/02/port_authority_eliminates_director_job_created_for_wildstein.html#incart_m-rpt-1

By the time the cock crows you will deny me three times

[Dread Pirate Roberts]

1. I've sent out over 300 resumes in the last 18 months

I've gotten about 20 interviews (not including 2nd & 3rd interviews (or even 4th in two cases) for the same job) and I haven't been able to find suitable employment. Who knew you just had to "not really know" the governor to land a great gig! No resume needed.

They should name a toll booth after the guy. It will always be the lane that's closed. In fact every time I come up to a toll plaza in the future, I'll start referring to the booth that's closed as the Wildstein lane!

[Laxman]

10. I've Been Using My "Down" Time....

to post stuff about Christie on DU! I'm so conflicted. I need to work but this is just so interesting.

[Dread Pirate Roberts]

12. Don't take this the wrong way but I hope you don't find a job.

At least until all of this is over. I shouldn't say that. There are plenty of other people on here that are all over Christie.

[ProSense]

2. LOL!

Thanks for posting.

[malaise]

3. Looks like Wildstein created the position for himself

[Enrique]

4. no one could ever fill Wildstein's shoes n/t

[Laxman]

5. THAT is a DUzy!

[Beach Rat]

6. Does this mean that Wildstein is Jesus? (sorry for the irreverence)

By the time the cock crows you will deny me three times

I thought I heard a rooster in the background during Christie's last press conference!

[hatrack]

7. I think it's "By the time the crook blows, you will deny my tee times"

Translation from Aramaic an be tricky . . .

[Beach Rat]

8. Ahhh, now it makes sense!

My translation skills were a little rusty!

[Dopers_Greed]

9. Wildstein should be a model for the unemployed

You think you're entitled to someone giving you a job? Pull yourself up by your bootstraps and create your own job, lazy bums!

[jsr]

11. They should get rid of dozens more

http://www.cnn.com/2014/01/16/politics/christie-wildstein-port-authority/

The Newark Star Ledger reported in February 2012 that critics accused Christie of turning the Port Authority into a patronage mill. Citing a document titled "NY/NJ Executive Referrals" the newspaper showed there were 35 new Port Authority hires directed by Christie during his first year in office. That's more than the last four governors combined, according to the paper.

[Laxman]

13. They Came In Like Cockroaches...

http://www.wnyc.org/story/port-authority-christie-appointees-control/

clean out the cabinets and fumigate the place!