Wasn't the boss into garbage?

Gettouttahere, officially Tony Soprano was a Waste Management Consultant..

That was for the health insurance, though. (Seriously! He was always worried about losing the "Waste Management" front because of the health insurance.)

Actually, he did also dabble in Union "organization," Concrete, "Construction," Dock Work, Trucking and assorted similar....

P.S. got lucky with a quick google, found the wikipedia entry on the episode you are remembering:

"No Show" is the forty-first episode of the HBO television series The Sopranos. It is the second episode of the show's fourth season....

Title reference

    * The title refers to the way the mob assigns paid jobs at a construction site to workers who never have to show up but continue to be paid. In the episode, the family splits the no show jobs between Ralph and Paulie's crews — Christopher and Paulie both receive a no show job. Also doled out are three no work jobs, in which a "worker" shows up for the titular job for the hours allocated but doesn't lift a finger doing actual work but, as depicted by Patsy, sit around in beach lounge chairs.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Show#Title_reference