In this Jan. 2 file photo, people line up at a California Department of Motor Vehicles office to register for drivers licenses in Stanton. (Photo: AP) 
 
 A California Department of Motor Vehicles employee slept thousands of hours on the job since 2014, a report released Tuesday from the state's auditor says. 
 
 The report estimates the employee slept three or more hours daily at her desk since February 2014, totaling over 2,200 hours of work time and costing more than $40,000. 
 
 The employee worked as a key data operator. Her duties included "routine data entry for change of address and new vehicle ownership forms," the report says. 
 
 She processed less than half the documents that she was expected to – an average of 200 documents a day, when key data operators are expected to process more than 550, according to the report. 
 
 While her supervisors were aware of the issue, the report found that they underestimated the amount of time the employee was sleeping on the job and did not properly follow disciplinary procedures. 
 
 A supervisor reported waking the employee up "three to four times each day," the report says. It says the work the employee did complete "was often so inaccurate" that coworkers wouldn't trust her to correctly enter their address or vehicle ownership change. 
 
 Supervisors suspected a medical issue was contributing to the employee's problems, which led them to be "reluctant to take further steps to address the employee’s sleeping and poor production." 
 
 The employee's doctor told the DMV she was unable to perform the duties associated with her job. Subsequently, the employee obtained a physician's release saying she was able to perform her job's duties, the report says. 
 
 Earlier this year, the DMV said it was unable to proceed with disciplinary action because the issues had not been adequately documented. The report says that documentation was completed in March of this year. 
 
 The state auditor's office investigated 1,481 instances of alleged improper governmental activities in the past year, the report says. 
 
 California lawmakers have scheduled an August hearing to examine complaints of long DMV waits, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. 
 
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 A California DMV data operator slept three hours a day at her desk for three years, and the department failed to take disciplinary action — despite complaints from her colleagues, according to an audit released Tuesday. 
 
 Four witnesses told investigators from the California State Auditor’s office that the DMV employee consistently slept at her desk. The auditor estimated the employee misused 2,200 hours of work time between February 2014 and December 2017. 
 
 The employee continues to work for the state, according to the audit. 
 
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 That report was one of several included in the State Auditor’s twice-a-year report on state worker misconduct. 
 
 It also found: 
 
 A high-ranking Cal Fire chief had two state employees build an addition to a state-owned house he rented during their work hours. The addition had plumbing, electrical and sewer connections. The chief did not get permission to build the structure. Photos of the building show it was decorated as a tiki room, and the chief invited people to drink alcohol with him in the building. The assistant chief was punished with a 30-day suspension, and Cal Fire has demolished the structure, according to the audit. 
 
 Two Fresno State University operations employees “engaged in egregious and continued time and attendance abuse” by taking extended breaks over a four-year period. They allegedly wasted 5,100 hours and cost the state about $111,000 in salary paid for work not performed. 
 
 
 
 
 
 The director of nursing at a Southern California prison reassigned a licensed vocational nurse to a position for which she was overqualified. The nurse was reported to be a friend of the director. It cost the state about $30,000, including overtime, because other employees had to cover for the nurse in her regular job. 
 
 
 
 
 
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 The DMV worker who slept at her desk might have had a medical condition that made it difficult for her to work on a regular schedule. In 2016, her doctor informed the department that she could not perform the duties the job required. 
 
 The DMV reassigned her to another position in January 2017, but she continued to sleep at work. ||||| (This story has been updated with comments from the plaintiff's attorney.) 
 
 A Central California woman claims she was fired after uninstalling an app that her employer required her to run constantly on her company issued iPhone—an app that tracked her every move 24 hours a day, seven days a week. 
 
 Plaintiff Myrna Arias, a former Bakersfield sales executive for money transfer service Intermex, claims in a state court lawsuit that her boss, John Stubits, fired her shortly after she uninstalled the job-management Xora app that she and her colleagues were required to use. According to her suit (PDF) in Kern County Superior Court: 
 
 After researching the app and speaking with a trainer from Xora, Plaintiff and her co-workers asked whether Intermex would be monitoring their movements while off duty. Stubits admitted that employees would be monitored while off duty and bragged that he knew how fast she was driving at specific moments ever since she installed the app on her phone. Plaintiff expressed that she had no problem with the app's GPS function during work hours, but she objected to the monitoring of her location during non-work hours and complained to Stubits that this was an invasion of her privacy. She likened the app to a prisoner's ankle bracelet and informed Stubits that his actions were illegal. Stubits replied that she should tolerate the illegal intrusion….. 
 
 Intermex did not immediately respond for comment. 
 
 The suit, which claims invasion of privacy, retaliation, unfair business practices, and other allegations, seeks damages in excess of $500,000 and asserts she was monitored on the weekends when she was not working. 
 
 Arias' boss "scolded" her for uninstalling the app shortly after being required to use it, according to the suit. Her attorneys said the woman made $7,250 per month and that she "met all quotas" during a brief stint with Intermex last year. 
 
 "This intrusion would be highly offensive to a reasonable person," the filing said. 
 
 Arias' attorney, Gail Glick, said in a Monday e-mail to Ars that the app allowed her client's "bosses to see every move the employees made throughout the day." 
 
 The app had a "clock in/out" feature which did not stop GPS monitoring, that function remained on. This is the problem about which Ms. Arias complained. Management never made mention of mileage. They would tell her co-workers and her of their driving speed, roads taken, and time spent at customer locations. Her manager made it clear that he was using the program to continuously monitor her, during company as well as personal time. 
 
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– An employee responsible for logging changes in address and vehicle ownership at the California DMV slept at least three hours a day at her desk for nearly four years—and still has a job. The woman's 2,200 hours spent napping between February 2014 and December 2017 meant she completed less than half of her expected amount of work and cost the state more than $40,000, according to a worker misconduct report released Tuesday by the state's auditor. Per USA Today, the woman's doctor told the DMV that she was unable to perform her work duties, though a later doctor's note said the opposite. The employee continues to work for the state, per the Sacramento Bee.