State worker's job a 1,000-mile mystery

[@roadrunner9622]

Everyone in that office knew what was going on. That's why they were so cagey, and never just came out and said "Nicole isn't at this office anymore."

[@nonconforumity]

Nicole is so good at her job and performs it so seamlessly, you don't even realize if she there or not.

[@jamesdostie3556]

i bet her knees are sore

[@christiansmith2775]

😂😂😂

[@davem9572]

that woman needs to be fired for making up stories and not answer questions

[@dougfisher9525]

"Is that office a residence?" "Uhhhh thats not a relevant question" Lol she has no office, that woman lying for her should be fired too.

[@liambenyamin5482]

She's not a lazy guy. She an indispensable woman! Never confuse the two!!! Women work 225% harder than men for 30% less pay. You do the math. She is reliable, trustworthy and respected. Stop bashing her; She's 3x the person you are.

[@andrewrios2295]

@@liambenyamin5482 🤣🤣🤣

[@wellwhatdoyoumean8372]

@@liambenyamin5482 Yeah...right...sure she is. Yes, never confuse the two of how that if women TRULY do work harder than men for less...apparently that's not happening in this case! and the math? (scoffing)...what math?! all that is seen here is that she's telecommuting from more than 3 freaking states away for a state job that she's NOT even in the relative state here to begin with! How can a telecommuting "state employee" be so trustworthy? is the woman interviewed by Larry here directly supervising ALL of her work she is supposedly completing? what about corrections or clerical mistakes she makes? is that being looked at or just lazily being approved to add more to the scam or hidden agenda? How can anyone respect someone like that in the first place? And bashing? HA!...she probably performs the very bare minimum at her job to slide by as to whoever would possibly be looking at her work and productivity. She probably can't even perform the work of 3 employees in the same dept. that she's in.

[@dennisriblett4622]

"I don't think thats a relevant question " Who is She to decide what is relevant .....Stinks of corruption

[@unclemoe6043]

Fish, Maybe ????

[@NarlyLyfe]

yea she's basically saying it's none of your business in a kinda polite way. lol

[@treyquanmooney6655]

She can answer the slimey news reporter how she chooses ,she is neither in a courtroom nor under oath

[@mjp8845]

Civil Service bodies are the same the World over . Immediate denial of complicity and in-house jargon crap. On top,of which she can just phone in her hours worked

[@trumpetmano]

"Not relevant" means STOP ASKING ME TO TELL THE TRUTH>>>>!

[@richardsmith5696]

Not relevant mean private. remember thee story starts that she moved to take care of a family member. what sickness is privacy to her and not open to public. unless you believe that anyone even the government can spy and Trak you and has the right to know everything about you.

[@tomservo5007]

Paul, can I come to your job and ask your boss questions about you? Like where you live?

[@kbanghart]

@losepoundsandinches aside from the lame insult, can you offer any evidence of this? Many people canbdo their job remotely these days.

[@jerrymoriarty3319]

@@tomservo5007 SURE,IF YOU'RE SIGNING THE PAYCHECKS.

[@Gcool243]

Richard Smith bruh don’t be an idiot lol

[@matlew1960]

They should check if she's got a new second job in Chicago..

[@eiland369]

🎯🎯🎯

[@larrysorenson4789]

Of course she did.

Under no circumstances should this "work arrangement" be acceptable.

[@shirleysenkler781]

Sounds like fraud to me.

[@clydepiper4046]

Sounds like a bureaucracy to me - lol

[@choochietrixie9352]

losepoundsandinches She’s probably in the bosses bed busy

[@kbanghart]

@losepoundsandinches how is that insult relevant to this?

[@kbanghart]

It's only fraud if it's proven she's doing something illegal, has it been proven? Sounds like her job can be done remotely, like many other jobs.

[@1USAUSA]

Shirley Senkler Not SOUNDS LIKE ... IT IS A FRAUD against the TAX-PAYER... lol😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@roadrunner9622]

"Policy analyst and public information officer" Sounds like exactly the kind of job where someone could get away with doing nothing, and nobody would notice.

[@jvolstad]

A PIO that works from home?

[@secondchance6603]

Notice it was all females working there? So 'diverse'.

[@brucewilson2763]

And she’s “one of the best”. Tell me about the ones that aren’t! Show me an example of work she is still doing, although remotely. She is either working or she isn’t.

[@sawhite27]

Of course she is getting special treatment and not required to perform the job, tasks, responsibilities outlined for ANYONE doing that job.

[@lesliemandic9673]

So where do they say she is NOT doing the job.?? I dont think its right she lives out of state but if she Is doing the job and being held accountable...

[@trumpetmano]

Seems like her real title is the Governor's 'sausage taster'...

[@goondocksaints9597]

No sausage is 1,000 miles long. LOL

[@karlomoharic3992]

My thoughts exactly , most likley he pumped her up and now is paying for that

[@albertogonzalez5987]

Paul Beebe + Lol

[@marypelton9213]

Paul Beebe agree, she needs to move back to Santa Fe or terminated

[@leonardmacaulay9833]

You mean the taxpayer is paying for it.

[@SRSOS]

3:24 that woman has meth or alcohol abuse written all over her face.

[@seth7712]

Exactly I cringed

[@joshcantrell8397]

Alcohol for sure

[@dougoverhoff2038]

She should be required to come in to a state office to pick up her checks, at least. I wonder how many others just "phone in" their jobs every day? And then, when she's put in her time, she gets to go on retirement and collects all of those state paid for bennies, along with a fat pension check, too, as long as she's alive. What a gig! Where do I sign up?

[@Lukeaduke510]

I see the concept of telework is new to you. Welcome to the new milennium, Doug. A state job that only requires a phone and computer with an internet connection? Gee, well that just sounds crazy. However could they make that work unless she's right there in the HQ??????????

[@dknowles60]

@@Lukeaduke510 wrong we state tax payers set the rules. we are her boss

[@Vashtstamped]

As a state employee she needs to live in the state period, if she does not want to too then she needs to get a job with another company. Her job is to deal with the public this is not a telework position for that type of job period.

[@frankfacts6207]

organized crime no-show 'job'

[@effortlessawareness8778]

LOL

[@ricks.1318]

Me only question,,, WHAT does she "have over the NM Gov" ...... If I were a NM "taxpayer" I'd would fight for her RESIGNATION !!!! Clearly there IS "wrong doing" & "special privileges" on this woman's deal !!!!!!!!!!!!

[@johnbolongo9978]

$170 a day ....dont forget the full benefit and retirement package.

[@NarlyLyfe]

yea they are worried about $170, which is peanuts, when there are counties and states wasting millions on the same shit.

[@PC4USE1]

I think that the Illinois Department of Revenue would like to talk to this woman as well as New Mexico's counterpart agency. I live in Chicago . Can i get a New Mexico job?

[@PC4USE1]

@ wow-you just replied to a 2 year old thread-I don't even remember the damn story. LOL

[@newsflash5132]

The girl getting interviewed looks like she has an addiction problem.

[@thomascundiff3496]

I agree she has got issues , needs a new job in corrections.

[@unclemoe6043]

Bahahahahaha, Now dats sum funy MFn shit Jack !!!!!!! Luv deez freekin stories. Da Chickadee answerin has a very bright future in Politics Jack !!!!

[@bullsboat1]

It's been 8 years....wonder what happened?

[@WestCoastR1der]

She found a better job at the University of Chicago and used ''Family medical problems'' in order to keep that NM job until her term ran out. She currently lives in Chicago where she had already planned to never comeback. What a f*cking crook www.linkedin.com/in/nicole-gillespie-b902102a

[@zacharymcmillan2788]

So THAT'S why the governor was taking all of those "conference trips" to Chi-town;he was keeping up his little sugar mama.🤣🤣🤣

[@FnixGhod1]

Did they also buy her a new set of kneepads?

[@Dan.50]

There are thousands upon thousands of jobs like this in federal, state and local governments.

[@1USAUSA]

You don't say... where do I sign up? LOL 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@MysLed]

Someone better hurry up with those charges so the state can recoup their money back from her and also all of those officials who were complicit in this. That employee should be held liable for receiving state funded compensation she didn't deserve or earn. What's the name for this sort of crime, theft or embezzlement?

[@cavernariogalindo7792]

That's how you know she's great at her job, you don't even notice she's doing it.

[@ludmillaramirez4997]

This didn't age well. Funny now in post-covid times, many states are all remote in these admin type roles, including mine. My coworker lives half of the country away. Kind of odd I'll never meet her in person, but she either does the job or doesn't. If the results aren't there, she will be let go like anyone else here. Even in the office, I would spend 100% of my day on email, phone, chat. Zero reason to be there. Here's the benefit to the citizens: we're selling the old office building, and many others, losing the extra expense. And as the states largest employer, we've got thousands of less people clogging up the interstate everyday. Welcome to the 21st century. For better or worse.

[@sympathy4thedevil88]

This is dead on. There was no issue of malfeasance or her not preforming her job. The dumb dumbs above her making 6 figures and then a huge pension are obviously not doing thier jobs. I live outside Chicago, give me a shout Nichole and I'll take you out for a beer.

[@CardboardBots]

exactly. this story is a complete hatchet job. so many people work by distance now or work from home.

[@craigjensen6853]

I'm a civil servant and every one of the policies I've seen in our state (including my department) dictate that the employee _must_ remain within the state if working remotely. It is also policed by IP and you have to get your home network certified and everything.

[@HoomerbirdG2]

@@sympathy4thedevil88 probably left Illinois like me and everyone else

[@tro4404]

That is not the issue. The issue is favoratism and lack of employee oversight. Like Musk says, "You can pretend to work somewhere else."

[@rhondak7547]

This is why it angers me when certain people start saying I don't want my tax dollars being spent on this or that . If we truly had knew exactly how much of our tax dollars get wasted on the stupidest things our heads would expload

[@NarlyLyfe]

exactly, finally someone understands how irrelevant this is, $170 a day is peanuts to an elephant, and atleast she is doing her job and not doing anything illegal. We have cities, counties and states that are stealing millions.

[@86kickass]

Corruption in govt is part of human nature

[@josephwarra5043]

"All workers are equal, except that some workers are more equal than others."

[@gbear1005]

4:06 did someone FOIA the formal permission to telecommute AHEAD OF TIME? If the policy was not followed, a FELONY was committed. someone please follow these up. 5:37 the second she tried to defend what had happened, termination.

[@Eddie-ev9bv]

I wonder, when or if she returns to work, will she be accompanied by a young "Governer"?

[@go86go]

S Z so the $170 a day is for child support

[@mikegriffin5440]

I call it the Friends, Family and Favorites plan. Selective supervision, just about every workplace is guilty of similar tactics.

[@mjp8845]

In other words it is a scam.

[@photoops1]

She must very a very important state employee to get all the recognitions. She's doing really good for a 28 years old.

[@jshepard152]

A cute 28 year old tends to do well.

[@cameronangel1013]

Doesn't say much for the employees of new Mexico if she's the best employee

[@stevecrow559]

Every city needs a Larry Barker.

[@wisconsinrailstotrailscycl4277]

This is outrageous! Nothing surprises me anymore with these OFFICE HOLDERS...

[@shiningstar2903]

In Canada, prominent federal MP was working from US in Oklahoma where her husband lives. Now she wants to run for provincial leader of a political party in a province in which she has zero ties.

[@robertmorris8997]

EVERY state needs a Larry Barker.

[@dknowles60]

we have one in my state of tn. his name is phill willams of ch 5 news

[@jasongrooming36]

I like how the lady gets to judge what’s relevant.

[@PInk77W1]

I worked for the state for 27yrs. I saw so much craziness.

[@fl3162]

They effectively receive a very large welfare check for life with extra benefits and perks - followed by a very large early pension.

[@markbosky]

I don't understand what the problem is. Can she not work remotely? It's extremely difficult to retain decent state employees as it is. Why does it matter if she works from another state?

[@jimb9369]

Everyone who refused to answer the questions honestly needed to be fired.

[@601salsa]

I could understand if she was trying to escape from an abusive relationship, or if someone close in her family was terminal or even if she had been diagnosed with cancer or another severe medical condition. I can more than understand why these reasons would not be announced to everyone.

[@alexritchie4586]

Nicole knows something so salacious about NM's state governs certain that it gives her enough leverage to work 1000 miles away and retain her position. What's the bigger story here?

[@johnsradios484]

Fathom worker. She works on the internet, that way you can have 10 jobs at once.

[@Lukeaduke510]

As long as they're all done to the specified requirements, who cares?

[@jomama8895]

that's what you call sleeping with the boss and being given a comfy position to hush you up

[@SarahDigsHockey]

Two words explain this situation: Bill Richardson

[@edgmp]

My wife has worked for a global corporation for going on 30 years. They allow and even encourage their employees to NOT commute to the city (NYC). Saves time and transportation expenses and the company needs less expensive real estate in Times Square. She does have to go to the city about every 4 to 6 week to access secure documents or to have her computer security updated. She can work anywhere there's a good internet connection and a cell signal. Down side is she has to file income taxes for every state she works in. One year she had to pay California .12 cents.

[@nanathegoat5106]

Honestly that's how I viewed this. If she can do her job in Chicago let her do it. If all she does is handle calls and emails, then wtf must she come to the office everyday.

[@papabits5721]

The best government explanations ever! It’s clear as mud

[@tomhodge2565]

Legend says Nicole is still working for the citizens of New Mexico until this day from Chicago.

[@fuxmaulder1]

Wait till this guy hears about all the remote workers in 2022

[@CardboardBots]

yeah, the reporter should do a follow up on office work in the year 2022

[@williamgage7541]

Thanks guys great reporting 👍💯🇺🇸

[@skater247100]

"But Nicole didn't come back in later". Man's a savage haha 🤣

[@michpackfan]

There was no ending or follow up

[@CassandrashadowcassMorrison]

Actually, with a laptop and a decent wi-fi hookup she could probably have handled most of her work from Chicago without a problem. Even eight years ago when this video was posted.

[@edwardpresutti1296]

Agreed...covid has shown us that much at least...I've worked from home 4 going on 2 years just fine... Problem here is it stinks of a payoff or coverup...

[@jcman240]

There are state employees from many different states that live and work in other states...

[@rogerwhiting9310]

So what was the outcome of this investigation?

[@maebandy]

This is what I think about anyone representing a state but living in Wash D.C. Anyone who has power the to effect people's lives as greatly as politicians or state/federal employees do, should have to face that constituency on a daily basis at the grocery store, bank and post office. We have more than 60 yrs of research that tells us people can justify personal wants over others needs if they are not faced with the impact of those decisions constantly. Every 4 yrs or the occasional angry tweet do not effectively mitigate the barrage of special interest and power plays people in DC. face at every single interaction with another human being.

[@bryceoleski5680]

Watching this in 2022 when half the population works remote 😂

[@benfranklin1770]

Come to Ottawa, Ontario...lots.of corruption in government here!!

[@carloslopez1582]

Wow....the extent of corruption by these crooks is way out of control.

[@rkb6783]

THIS GOES ON EVERYWHERE !

[@dknowles60]

how many years is temp

[@dwainmcwilliams2043]

Governmental..... They are so entitled and can justify all types of maleficence on the public dime. "I have an address but it can't be shared. Is it paid with public Funds?

[@rebeccamorgan4255]

Has anyone interviewed lately? Good help is hard to find.

[@burkefox3208]

And now everyone works remotely. My company is on the other side of the world I have worked remotely for about 15 years . This sounds perfectly fine

[@kelvinw.1384]

For governmental work that is a huge no no to do that in a foreign country. Also certain records especially for government is still paper cause they never modernized. Great you can but government work is a whole another egg

[@sophocles1198]

Did Gillespie have to provide a justification for not needing a justification?

[@screwybruce]

All involved should face jail time for fraud and her entire paid to date salary should be repaid.

[@philrisotto8804]

Policy is only enforced in the private sector.

[@dougfisher9525]

The reason this happens so much is cause the news is the only ppl that hold them accountable.

[@thomasspringer5187]

Corruption through and through !

[@GHELM-wp5yj]

NM has corruption as a state motto.

[@oscartorres1306]

Major fraud.

No government employee works hard.

[@keptyeti]

If the work is getting done, what difference does it make?

[@snomaim]

keptyeti I agree. It’s the 21st century and telecommuting is pretty common. Seems like much ado about nothing.

[@ladymalkavian8710]

Got to love when this kind of thing happens. This is not ok on so many levels

[@dynoman1996]

And it happens in any town USA

[@charliemas1]

Why would a state office extend these extraordinary accommodations to a staff member? 1. The staff person is extraordinarily good at their job and therefore could demand the accommodation. 2. The staff person was somehow wronged by the department and the accommodation is an informal settlement in lieu of litigation. Any other ideas?

[@SykeMediaTV]

8 years later .. wonder where she is now :)

[@Audiogeek-kf2ez]

Remote working is one thing but an ongoing job with no time limit is unforgivable.

[@ricks.1318]

Im SURE that the woman interviewed in this segment ALSO got a pair of "knee pads", ....

[@jessicastern8597]

$170,000/day???

[@jjdurrenber]

Is the job getting done? If so, what’s the big deal?

[@Giogiogio4]

She got knocked up by the governor. Sent her away so she could collect pay. Once governor is done she will either meet up with him or find a new job.

[@jacquelinesimpson6672]

This is 12 years old. No update?

[@joeferaco9896]

Looks like that whole office should be under scrutiny,only ones that are doing there jobs are the low level employees

[@EricK-ff2ff]

so why do these videos look like they were shot in the 80s? we had 1080p in 2010

[@theapparatus]

The one question not bought up in this is if she's doing her job or not. From the job description, answering media question is something that can be done remotely. edit: A quick google shows a number of news articles written in 2010 where she's been answering questions fine.

[@blanchae]

2020 and Covid-19 everyone works from home. Nicole was a ground breaking leader.

[@goutvols103]

Great video. It would be interesting to know how she pays her state taxes?

[@NarlyLyfe]

they are taken out of her paycheck, and when she files in IL, they will ask her if she has made money outside of the state and it goes from there, it's actually really simple.

[@biopticmammal]

This secretary looks fresh off a street corner

[@liambenyamin5482]

She really doesn't need to be on-site to do that job. Remote work is fine Larry. It's near impossible to replace her.

[@gbear1005]

commuting is also eligible (fed tax) of 0.58 USD/mile. wow. 580 dollars per day!

[@chilogutierrez8760]

Was the work getting done?

[@Audiogeek-kf2ez]

Great investigation.

[@saoiray]

They don't say she isn't working. You can do a lot of things via telecommuting. Aside from possible policy violations, it doesn't seem to be a big deal...

[@youredefeeted8136]

I've seen her in Chicago,shes got the longest eyes and arms you've ever seen!!

[@ericbyers9554]

Smells of corruption

[@agatemand9078]

All these employees should be fired and charged with fraud.

[@michelepastele5347]

That is outrageous. Clearly the woman Barker interviewed would not give him direct, accountable answers. $l00,000 a year? Not too shabby.