Over Paid and under worked, but in this case you can't blame the city work!

City Employees across North America are busy buying up copies of the National Post, if only to stick up one article on the municipal bulletin board.

In Thursday’s copy of the Post on page A12 is a private contractor’s worst nightmare. It features a tale of sloth and incompetence, which will only result in suspicious glances every time that a contract is tendered for.

Taking the news from newspapers in England, the Post recounts the work ethic of a team of contract workers for the Surrey County Council in England. The team of road workers hired to do a bit of road work in the County combined to clock up less than one hour of work over the course of their eight hour shift.

57 minutes was all the effort that they could provide over the course of the work day, the rest of the 423 minutes of the workday was spent drinking tea, reading the newspaper (obviously not the Post) going to the bank and making a couple of trips to a nearby bakery.

The firm contracted to provide the road repairs for Surrey Council says it will soon introduce something called “new management techniques.”

Oh lets say something like supervising for instance.