Colonialist peculiar problems

I did a bit of house painting work for a colonialist (white male) the other day, and while he drove me home we got talking. It turns out he's got into a bit of a difficult situation. Apparently he took on a difficult job, and 3 years later resigned to release extra funds to help the organisation purchase equipment, etc. The problem was that then he carried on working there, planning to slowly pass the workload over to others, such that they wouldn't need to replace him, and the department could flourish. Now, 1 and a half years later, he's still going in to his office everyday and doing the same work he did when they paid him for it. However, now that he's no longer officially an employee, things are much tougher for him, since he can't approve purchases, etc, and subsequently often ends up footing the bill himself. He has been looking for a job half-heartedly, firstly because he knows he won't get one (being a white male and not a CA), and secondly because he's worried about what will happen to the department when he finally leaves. Its hard to believe anyone can be so stupid. He now feels compelled to work for free for the foreseeable future. Some people enjoy their job, but this is just taking things too far. To add insult to injury, all the funds that have been freed up are now being used by the new official head of department for annual overseas trips and new, personal computer equipment for himself, and the department is in the same cash-strapped situation as before. In fact the guy still has to justify to the funders that the money they're giving is being well-spent - effectively he's being forced to lie about where the money is going, because he's scared they'll withdraw funding if they realise its all being spent on someone's personal use. And I thought I had problems...