Company Finds Out Man Didn’t Work for 6 Years After Trying to Give Him Award
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[QUOTE]A Spanish civil servant reportedly hadn’t been to work for six years without anyone noticing.It wasn’t until 2010 when Joaquín García, 69, who is now retired, was slated to get a long-service award when his boss noticed he wasn’t there.
Deputy mayor Jorge Blas Fernández told [URL="http://www.elmundo.es/andalucia/2016/02/10/56bb61b8e2704e90628b45c8.html"]el Mundo[/URL]: “He was still on the payroll. I thought, where is this man? Is he still there? Has he retired? Has he died?”
García started working for a local authority in Cadiz in 1990. In 1996, he was sent to the local water board, Agua de Cadiz, where his job was to oversee a waste water treatment plant, the Guardian [URL="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/12/long-lunch-spanish-civil-servant-skips-work-for-years-without-anyone-noticing"]reported[/URL]. The water company believed that he was being supervised by the local authorities and local officials thought vice versa.[/QUOTE]
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That's fucking hilarious, honestly give that man an award.
The man. The myth. The legend.
Honestly can't even be mad about these things. The fact he pulled that off is amazing. I'd dare say it's the employers fault for not keeping tab on him.
Ofc he's spanish
Yeah I had something similar happen to me. I quit a job and then 6 months later they call me asking if I'm going to come in or be late. It was the most wierd phone call
This is some Office Space tier shit.
His office was right across from his bosses. Jeeze.
[QUOTE=Mkt778;49743819]Happened to me in school kinda.
In Australia, I did army cadets through my school. I did 3 years and then quit when it started to become a clusterfuck, conflicting with me morally and greatly affecting my depression at the time.
Anyways, I just went to the guy in charge and said I was thinking of leaving. He said he'd work it all out for me. So I just stopped showing up to parades. I assumed I was off their roll.
But I wasn't. I was still registered. I kept getting rank, despite not being there. Two years later, at graduation, during the part where our schooling achievements are announced to an assembly, they would always announce what rank you achieved in cadets along with others things you did. I achieved Warrant Officer without doing anything. Without showing up to courses or even [I]roll call.[/I]
I even got the extra points for the HSC for full service in Cadets.
Now that I think about it, I starting to think the teacher who ran Cadets knew I was upset with how things were running, and did me a favor by not taking me off the roll. Just letting me get away with not showing up because he knew I was suffering with depression and junk. He knew the extra HSC points would assist me greatly. He was a very nice guy so I wouldn't put it past him.[/QUOTE]
Or maybe he just forgot because you're not the only one who has it tough.
The new government of that city is investigating that and other many similar cases as apparently they are related somehow with the old government, either being friends of the old politicians or just members of the ultra-conservative party who ruled the city for almost three decades, as they might got these jobs without applying all the legal process to reach a public position.
Just another grain in the mountain of corruption of this country. And later they say is the average people the resposible ones of the crysis...
This actually happens a lot more than people think, especially in large companies. We've had people leave for months before people ask "where is X" only to find out they went back to india or something
The setup is like that (fake) story about the guy who set himself up as the parking attendant at a zoo parking lot.
[quote]From The London Times:
A Well-Planned Retirement
Outside England 's Bristol Zoo there is a parking lot for 150 cars and 8 buses. For 25 years, its parking fees were managed by a very pleasant attendant.....
The fees for cars ($1.40), for buses (about $7).
Then, one day, after 25 solid years of never missing a day of work, he just didn't show up; so the zoo management called the city council and asked it to send them another parking agent.
The council did some research and replied that the parking lot was the zoo's own responsibility. The zoo advised the council that the attendant was a city employee.
The city council responded that the lot attendant had never been on the city payroll.
Meanwhile, sitting in his villa somewhere on the coast of Spain or France or Italy is a man who'd apparently had a ticket machine installed completely on his own and then had simply begun to show up every day, commencing to collect and keep the parking fees, estimated at about $560 per day — for 25 years.
Assuming 7 days a week, this amounts to just over $7 million dollars ..... and no one even knows his name.[/quote]
[QUOTE=matt000024;49742769]This is some Office Space tier shit.[/QUOTE]
The rare inverse-Milton.
[QUOTE=Lemmingston;49744905]Or maybe he just forgot because you're not the only one who has it tough.[/QUOTE]
Let's pretend he did.
[QUOTE=matt000024;49742769]This is some Office Space tier shit.[/QUOTE]
Reminds me of that episode of Malcolm in the Middle where Hal reveals that he hasn't been to work on a Friday in 15 years.
There was a guy on Reddit who got lost in the system at his job. He was hired directly by his boss, instead of through HR. So when his entire department got shut down, he wasn't fired.
The new department didn't assign anyone to the executive's office, so there was no replacement.
He went by for three months, the last month he got a new job and handed in his resignation.
[url]https://www.reddit.com/r/jobs/comments/3dfnuq/i_have_slipped_through_the_cracks_at_my_company/[/url]
[QUOTE=JohnFisher89;49747725]This actually happens a lot more than people think, especially in large companies. We've had people leave for months before people ask "where is X" only to find out they went back to india or something[/QUOTE]
This actually happened at my job today, though much less extreme. It turns out an employee quit last Monday, but the termination forms were never sent to me (so I could disable their computer login) or anyone else. It wasn't until someone asked "where has X been for the past week?" that anybody investigated it. Worst part? They sat kitty corner to my cubicle on the other side of the wall. Never even noticed.
I am going to move to that very city in July.
Oh boy :v:
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