Posted on 02/15/2016 7:49:30 AM PST by Dallas59
(NEWSER) – A 69-year-old Spanish man was fined this week after officials discovered he hadn't shown up to work for at least six years, the Guardian reports. Ironically, the civil servant was discovered only when the deputy mayor attempted to give him an award for 20 years of "loyal and dedicated" service in 2010. “I thought, where is this man?" the Guardianquotes the deputy mayor. "Is he still there? Has he retired? Has he died?â€
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Was his name Jeb(!)?
Sounds more like George P.
...same difference....
There was a guy I knew of at Earthlink (ISP) (where I worked once) that missed most days yet kept his job. He used every excuse he could and somehow kept the job. He only showed up for the last month or so to qualify for the extra money you would get when Earthlink announced they were moving the call center overseas along with Earthlink paying for school.
I imagine he next got a job with the state gov’t and is looking at a fat pension while still not doing any work.
He’s living the dream. LOL!
Did he get away with it after that year?
Are they talking about Joe Biden?
I told people George P. was like this before the elections. Nobody I know in Grayson County believed it would be an issue. Kind of like women who think that their boyfriend will change when they get married.
He didn’t even bother to actually work in Texas for a year before running for office. There was an expose on the firm where he had his name stenciled on the door...George P. never went any further than getting his name added. He remained in Florida with his family up until pretty close to the election.
He makes Obama look like a workaholic.
I work at a hospital and we check on pending medicaid applications for patients. When you call the main Medicaid office in Missouri, it depends on who answers the phone.
To check pending apps it requires them to log into a different system.
Some of them do it, no problem. Some say “We can’t do that.” I got kinda snotty one time and said “Well, the person I talked to there not 20 minutes ago could, so why don’t you put someone on the phone who knows how to do their job or give me to your supervisor.” Suddenly, she was able to do it. Go figure. Unless you get a bit nasty, nothing gets done.
Only in that both terms are oxymoronic
The silver lining is that when a bureaucrat misses work, no one’s rights are getting stomped on.
I worked a contract where one of the govies had cut up a cardboard box and taped the pieces to the top of his cube so that the lights wouldn’t disturb his sleep. Unfortunately he was the one responsible for some of my team’s systems, and whenever we needed to push a patch to production, I had to go over and wake him up to get his approval.
Isn’t this situation what the typical public “servant” strives for? What’s new under the sun? It is their dream.
This headline could have easily been about some US senators too.
Nope he got fired from both.
My brother worked for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts (aka:The Gay State) and tells stories that would make this Spanish guy look like a model employee by comparison.
Our country would probably work better if more government employees followed this example.
I have heard similar about the VA from someone who is frustrated with it. I changed from private to public service and actually found the employees work harder where I am now. This is local government, not federal. Where I was in the private industry, the waste was scandalous, but they did lay-offs to make up for it.
Had he missed a house payment it would have been noticed.
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