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Posted on 10/05/2016 7:19:39 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Almost a third of the workers for the local authority in a Sicilian town have been charged with aggravated fraud, after an investigation revealed they were skipping work in favor of activities such as shopping and massages.
A total of 59 employees of the city authorities in Milazzo, one of Sicily’s major cities, were found to be leaving the office after clocking in, in order to undertake personal errands, Il Corriere reported.
The prosecution said that the workers would also clock in for absent colleagues using their swipe cards, meaning some weren’t present for their entire shift. The investigation had been underway for several months, with Italy’s finance police tracking the clock-dodgers using five hidden cameras. …
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Doesn’t the 3-4 hour riposo (siesta) in the afternoon complicate matters?
Europe doesn’t believe in hard work and Europeans are generally a lazy, shifty lot, so it’s actually surprising to me that they care about something like this.
Plus they don’t bathe.
And the women are hairy.
“Almost a third of the workers for the local authority in a Sicilian town have been charged with aggravated fraud, after an investigation revealed they were skipping work in favor of activities such as shopping and massages. “
......and Why wouldn’t they? Laws and Rules are for
other people.....their motto is we’re above the Law!
You say that as though it's a bad thing.
Yay for hirsute ladies, lol
Reminds me of a woman who I worked with at a large US bank in the early 90s. She would come in around 9:15, hang her jacket on the back of her chair, and go shopping at Macy’s. She got back just in time to go out to lunch!
Ewh.
Shave or I ain’t hittin’ that.
I hope she counted her lunch time as paid company hours!
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Does that mean you wouldn't hit them? 8>)
Ok I will make ONE exception
Lemme guess: the bank you’re referring to is (was) Washington Mutual (’WaMu’,when it was around), right?
Shocking. And it doesn’t even mention the three hour lunch break. Living in Sicily I can honestly say that when you have to deal with any local government agency or department, better plan on making a day of it. There is no service mentality whatsoever, and that extends to 75% of the private sector too.
Nope, it was one of the really big US banks, back in the old days, before all the mergers started. We didn’t make any money, but the employees did very nicely. First merger, all these sorts of people were shown the door.
It’s pretty much common knowledge that only northern Italians have to work.
Color me ambivalent. Is Congress safer getting massages and shopping than it is making laws? I mean, if we have to choose between Algore pushing for carbon taxes or getting his chakra released, maybe the chakra thing is better for the public in the long run...
A few years ago I worked on a documentation project that had Italian oversight. I found out the hard way that when they take sick time, they also take time off work to recover from being sick. This is in addition to multiple weeks off in the summertime for vacations.
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