15 years skiving on full pay
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-56822571
An Italian hospital employee has managed to skip work on full pay for 15 years, completely under the radar.
Apparently he was a civil servant assigned to the hospital and just didn't turn up!
An Italian hospital employee has managed to skip work on full pay for 15 years, completely under the radar.
Apparently he was a civil servant assigned to the hospital and just didn't turn up!
k 'em.
Nothing as long as that (well, who knows - read on) but in the late 80s I worked in academia and a music lecturer was employed (nothing to do with my department).
A whole year on from that someone realised that said lecturer had never turned up, but amazingly he'd been paid his salary!
Worse, he got away with it as nobody wanted to face any 'music' so it all got hushed up.
I heard many months later from another lecturer that the invisible teacher was now 'employed' at another Uni.
I always wondered if he ever made an appearance there, or anywhere for that matter?
Perhaps he continued to apply and get jobs and remain invisible and today lives happily retired on a nice pension, having never done a day's work?
Nothing surprises me anymore.
A whole year on from that someone realised that said lecturer had never turned up, but amazingly he'd been paid his salary!
Worse, he got away with it as nobody wanted to face any 'music' so it all got hushed up.
I heard many months later from another lecturer that the invisible teacher was now 'employed' at another Uni.
I always wondered if he ever made an appearance there, or anywhere for that matter?
Perhaps he continued to apply and get jobs and remain invisible and today lives happily retired on a nice pension, having never done a day's work?
Nothing surprises me anymore.
A friend of mine is on a mission to see how little he can work before getting fired and retiring.
By subtly implying he’s working on different projects, declining meeting invites and automating his job, he now spends 2 or 3 hours a week from home on a full time job.
The irony is he still gets good reviews and pay rises be presenting the image that he is working hard and talking a good game when he needs to.
Modern corporate life is BS!
By subtly implying he’s working on different projects, declining meeting invites and automating his job, he now spends 2 or 3 hours a week from home on a full time job.
The irony is he still gets good reviews and pay rises be presenting the image that he is working hard and talking a good game when he needs to.
Modern corporate life is BS!
Earthdweller said:
There was an article a year or so ago about the French civil service and how over 500 staff were at home long term in “gardening leave” as they couldn’t be sacked but there was no work for them
I think one or more had been paid for an absence similar to this
And yet French productivity stats are better than ours the last time I looked....not sure what that says about anything I think one or more had been paid for an absence similar to this
Murph7355 said:
Earthdweller said:
There was an article a year or so ago about the French civil service and how over 500 staff were at home long term in “gardening leave” as they couldn’t be sacked but there was no work for them
I think one or more had been paid for an absence similar to this
And yet French productivity stats are better than ours the last time I looked....not sure what that says about anything I think one or more had been paid for an absence similar to this
It says a lot about different measures.
The complexity of measuring productivity of the UK workforce
https://www.raconteur.net/business-strategy/produc...
"Measurement of productivity is at best an inexact science, which loses meaning as the economy becomes more complex, so why is it deemed so important?"
Q:"...this still doesn't explain why France, where workers take more holidays and put in fewer hours each week than the British, is more productive than the UK..."
A: It's not.
UWE Prof Don Webber said:
The value of output is an imperfect measure of productivity. A business’s ability to increase productivity is dependent on three things – to push down costs, push up prices and sell more units. That’s how we measure an increase in productivity but that says nothing about the businesses’ ability to convert inputs to outputs. Many of the firms I talk to question whether this productivity puzzle exists.
Oakey said:
....and this one:https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21043693
US employee 'outsourced job to China'
Not exactly the same but when I was injured in the forces I was effectively at home on full pay for 35 months.
I attended rehab courses and towards the end would get fortnightly visits but the first year my total comms with the Army was a couple of emails and a couple of phone calls.
It's a weird parallel world and while it sounds brilliant is actually quite miserable.
I attended rehab courses and towards the end would get fortnightly visits but the first year my total comms with the Army was a couple of emails and a couple of phone calls.
It's a weird parallel world and while it sounds brilliant is actually quite miserable.
That took some brass neck
But, I loved the story of the council carpark attendant who ran a carpark for years and years. Apparently he was well liked, kept the carpark clean and tidy and the prices were reasonable.
When he 'retired' and no replacement turned up, it became apparent that it was never a council carpark, just a bit of unused land that he setup on and pocketed all the money
Hope his retirement is a pleasant one
But, I loved the story of the council carpark attendant who ran a carpark for years and years. Apparently he was well liked, kept the carpark clean and tidy and the prices were reasonable.
When he 'retired' and no replacement turned up, it became apparent that it was never a council carpark, just a bit of unused land that he setup on and pocketed all the money
Hope his retirement is a pleasant one
Gary C said:
That took some brass neck
But, I loved the story of the council carpark attendant who ran a carpark for years and years. Apparently he was well liked, kept the carpark clean and tidy and the prices were reasonable.
When he 'retired' and no replacement turned up, it became apparent that it was never a council carpark, just a bit of unused land that he setup on and pocketed all the money
Hope his retirement is a pleasant one
I think it was in Bristol. Apparently he took a few million in fees over the years. But, I loved the story of the council carpark attendant who ran a carpark for years and years. Apparently he was well liked, kept the carpark clean and tidy and the prices were reasonable.
When he 'retired' and no replacement turned up, it became apparent that it was never a council carpark, just a bit of unused land that he setup on and pocketed all the money
Hope his retirement is a pleasant one
TwigtheWonderkid said:
Gary C said:
That took some brass neck
But, I loved the story of the council carpark attendant who ran a carpark for years and years. Apparently he was well liked, kept the carpark clean and tidy and the prices were reasonable.
When he 'retired' and no replacement turned up, it became apparent that it was never a council carpark, just a bit of unused land that he setup on and pocketed all the money
Hope his retirement is a pleasant one
I think it was in Bristol. Apparently he took a few million in fees over the years. But, I loved the story of the council carpark attendant who ran a carpark for years and years. Apparently he was well liked, kept the carpark clean and tidy and the prices were reasonable.
When he 'retired' and no replacement turned up, it became apparent that it was never a council carpark, just a bit of unused land that he setup on and pocketed all the money
Hope his retirement is a pleasant one
jimothyc said:
My experience of working in the Civil Service for 10 years is that a large number of the staff there could stop turning up and it wouldn't make the slightest difference.
Although who is ultimately paying for all these apparently surplus people? Interesting that some people are saying good on the employee taking the Michael, wonder if they would say the same if they were footing the costs? Or if they had to take a pay cut to cover the costs? Maybe they might think differently then.
I accept that in some cases, the employer has to accept some of the blame for not monitoring the employee but as always in these situations, the hypocrisy of people beggars belief.
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