Lollygagging LIRR foreman repeatedly used work car to go home, friend’s house while on the clock

He spun his wheels all the way home — on the clock.

A lollygagging Long Island Rail Road foreman repeatedly slacked off on the job, instead using his work vehicle to go home or hang out at a friend’s house, the MTA’s watchdog found.

GPS data revealed the supervisor spent nearly 66% of his traveling shifts during part of 2024 at non-LIRR locations, according to an Office of Inspector General report released Monday.

“(The) Gang Foreman’s actions were a breach of the LIRR’s trust, where he opportunistically took advantage of a mobile job with minimal supervision when he was assigned work near his home,” the report states.

LIRR officials suspended the worker without pay for 60 days, demoted him from his ranks for six months and required him to pay $730 in restitution.

The unnamed employee in the newly released report had been assigned to work two days a week as a traveling gang foreman overseeing car appearance maintainers — who clean LIRR train interiors — starting in 2024.

He was expected to use a LIRR-owned vehicle to travel to at least two yards during those shifts, but investigators found he spent “excessive time” at other places, notably his own home, the report states.

GPS data showed the foreman had traveled home or to a friend’s house for two or three hours at a time, investigators contend.

Investigators staked out the supervisor’s home and found the LIRR vehicle parked there during times he was supposed to be working, according to the report.

When interviewed by OIG watchdogs, the worker wrongly claimed his breaks for lunch could be combined into a single hour-long marathon, the report states.

“He said he received no direction on whether he could take the vehicle home within his lunch period, ‘not that it happened a lot, but I didn’t think there was anything wrong with that,'” the foreman told investigators, according to the report.

The probe came on the heels of an OIG investigation into time abuse at LIRR that found dozens of workers used cloned IDs to ditch work but still get paid — including one boss who bragged about sipping margaritas at his pool.

“This is yet another example of a Long Island Rail Road supervisor who apparently believed that the MTA’s Code of Ethics and his agency’s work rules didn’t apply to him,” said Daniel Cort, the MTA’s inspector general, in a statement about the foreman.