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Sicilian public sector workers skipped work for massages and basketball
TheLocal.it ^ | 5 October 2016 12:56 CEST+02:00

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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TOPICS: Local News
KEYWORDS: basketball; massages; milazzo; publicsector; sicily; stealingtime

1 posted on 10/05/2016 7:19:39 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

Doesn’t the 3-4 hour riposo (siesta) in the afternoon complicate matters?


2 posted on 10/05/2016 7:24:34 AM PDT by moovova
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To: Olog-hai

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.


3 posted on 10/05/2016 7:25:18 AM PDT by Lazamataz (MSM ignoring Hillary's health until forced, shows us they are the MPM: Ministry of Propaganda Media)
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To: 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. “

......and Why wouldn’t they? Laws and Rules are for
other people.....their motto is we’re above the Law!


4 posted on 10/05/2016 7:26:04 AM PDT by EnglishOnly (Fight all out to win OR get out now.)
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To: Lazamataz
And the women are hairy.

You say that as though it's a bad thing.

Yay for hirsute ladies, lol

5 posted on 10/05/2016 7:28:30 AM PDT by csvset ( Illegitimi non carborundum)
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To: Olog-hai

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!


6 posted on 10/05/2016 7:28:53 AM PDT by proxy_user
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To: csvset

Ewh.

Shave or I ain’t hittin’ that.


7 posted on 10/05/2016 7:29:04 AM PDT by Lazamataz (MSM ignoring Hillary's health until forced, shows us they are the MPM: Ministry of Propaganda Media)
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To: proxy_user
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!

I hope she counted her lunch time as paid company hours!

8 posted on 10/05/2016 7:30:04 AM PDT by Lazamataz (MSM ignoring Hillary's health until forced, shows us they are the MPM: Ministry of Propaganda Media)
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To: Lazamataz
"And the women are hairy."

You were saying...?


9 posted on 10/05/2016 7:30:36 AM PDT by moovova
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To: Lazamataz
And the women are hairy.

Does that mean you wouldn't hit them? 8>)

10 posted on 10/05/2016 7:32:15 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: moovova

Ok I will make ONE exception


11 posted on 10/05/2016 7:35:31 AM PDT by Lazamataz (MSM ignoring Hillary's health until forced, shows us they are the MPM: Ministry of Propaganda Media)
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To: proxy_user

Lemme guess: the bank you’re referring to is (was) Washington Mutual (’WaMu’,when it was around), right?


12 posted on 10/05/2016 7:45:23 AM PDT by MichaelCorleone (Jesus Christ is not a religion. He's the Truth.)
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To: Olog-hai

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.


13 posted on 10/05/2016 7:57:18 AM PDT by Rummyfan
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To: MichaelCorleone

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.


14 posted on 10/05/2016 8:24:40 AM PDT by proxy_user
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To: Olog-hai
I'm sure this type of stuff happens in the public sector in the U.S., especially in the past 8 years.
15 posted on 10/05/2016 8:34:34 AM PDT by Major Matt Mason (Those that can, do, those that can't, work in the Beltway.)
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It’s pretty much common knowledge that only northern Italians have to work.


16 posted on 10/05/2016 10:18:29 AM PDT by Moltke (Reasoning with a liberal is like watering a rock in the hope to grow a building)
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To: Olog-hai

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...


17 posted on 10/05/2016 10:25:00 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Rummyfan

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.


18 posted on 10/05/2016 10:41:31 AM PDT by IndyTiger
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