A Spanish Man Stopped Doing His Job — And It Took His Boss 6 Years to Notice
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Fernandez told El Mundo he was under the impression that the company was supervising Garcia. "He was given an office in the building of Aguas de Cadiz and stayed there," he told the outlet. "Until one day [more than a decade later] I remembered and thought, 'Where is this man? Was he still there? Was he retired? Was he deceased?'"
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Here's where it gets even more bizarre: According to El Mundo , the council had actual ly meant to fire Garcia i n 1995, at which point they supposedly stopped monitoring him all together. So it's possible that Garcia was paid for work he didn't do for as long as 14 years.
Garcia maintained that it wasn't a total waste of tax dollars: While he didn't stay at work from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. like the position mandated, he said he occupied his office for some amount of time every day, passing the time reading, often about philosopher and rationalist Baruch Spinoza.
Perhaps we should all be so rational.
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Petey Coober
10 years agoFirst comment :
At least he had some good reading material while on "sabatical" ...
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Petey Coober
10 years agoIs this the typical model for civil service jobs in Spain ? I don't believe we have have similar avocations in the US . But if anyone has examples in the US to compare tell us about them ...
Dean Moriarty
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Petey Coober
10 years agoOur most liberal city Detroit had more than 250 ghost workers on the payroll of Detroit public schools.
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Petey Coober
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Dean Moriarty
10 years agoApparently those ghosts can't handle physically picking up checks ...
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