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Tuesday at 11: On the clock, off the job

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Your tax dollars pay for his salary. So why is one city of Detroit employee spending so much time at his house, instead of on the job?

Some concerned taxpayers asked 7 Investigator Heather Catallo to get to the bottom of whether this worker was really doing his job.  

We’ve kept a close eye on him since October, and this is what we found.

“Improving Detroit One Sign at a Time.” That’s what it says outside the city’s traffic sign shop on Detroit’s west side.  But the only thing one of the sign shop employees seems to be improving is his down time.

Most days, the 57-year-old leaves his house in his personal vehicle around 6:30 am.  But often, within hours, he’s back. 

Our cameras were rolling as he pulls his city truck into his driveway on the city’s west side, and lingers at home, sometimes for hours.

Tuesday on 7 Action News at 11PM, Heather will show you what happened when he was caught on the clock but off the job!