Expensive whim

Hey, when you play the Hoosier Lottery, you're not just wasting hard-earned money on a fool's dream of striking it rich. You're also investing in things all Hoosiers benefit from, like infrastructure and education and other vital services.

Oh, and this

:The Hoosier Lottery's new Meridian Street headquarters may not look like much from the outside, but inside, it's impressive.

The 35,000-square-foot office is visually stunning with lots of new artwork and furniture, and the lottery's director says the new offices are also practical, as well.

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The lottery spent more than a quarter million dollars in new employee work spaces, even though 13 Investigates discovered many of them sit empty more than six months after the lottery moved into its new offices.

13 Investigates found invoices for $200 clocks, $319 mirrors, $553 chairs, $800 bar stools, $11,500 work tables, and state-of-the-art exercise equipment in the lottery's brand new workout gym that totals more than $25,000.

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I don't think we were using space very efficiently at the old headquarters, but I wouldn't say we weren't running out of space," said one former employee who asked not to be identified for fear of retaliation. "No, we had open offices still available, plenty of open spaces on some of the floors."

The employee told 13 Investigates the multi-million dollar move from the Hoosier Lottery's old headquarters in the Pan American Plaza in downtown Indianapolis to its new offices on Meridian Street were unnecessary.

"We were all a bit stunned when we learned we were moving," she said.

"Moving was not required," said another longtime lottery employee. "It seemed just a whim to get a nicer office."

A "whim" is like an impulse buy, right? Like buying a lottery ticket. Sure wish all my whims were this succesful.