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found out by officials preparing to reward him for 'long service'
A Spanish civil servant who did no work for six years has been fined almost €27,000 (£21,000) after his long absence was finally noticed.
Officials in Cádiz were preparing to hand Joaquín García an award for long service when inquiries revealed the true extent of his contribution to the local authority.
In 1990, he was given a €37,000-a-year post at the Aguas de Cádiz public utilities provider, Spain’s El Mundo newspaper reported.
Jorge Blas Fernandez, who served as the city’s deputy mayor from 1995 to 2015, said he was given an office in the municipal building and no more was heard for more than a decade.
“We thought the water company was supervising him but that was not the case,” he added.
“We found out when we were about to present him with a commemorative plaque for 20 years of service.”
Inquiries with the manager of Aguas de Cádiz, who had an office opposite, revealed he had not seen Mr García for several years and when Mr Blas phoned his absent employee, he allegedly “could not answer” questions on what he had been doing.
A legal case was launched in 2010 alleging he had not done a day’s work since 2004, despite continuing to collect his €37,000 (£29,000) annual salary.
After a protracted lawsuit, Mr García, lost his appeal at a Cádiz court on Thursday and will have to pay his fine, which is the largest possible, The Times reported.
Mr García denied the allegations, claiming that he turned up each day but found there was no work to do.
Asked why he did not report the situation, he said he had a family to support and feared it would be difficult to find another job, so read extensively and became an “expert on the philosopher Spinoza”.
The 69-year-old was not fired from the post because he had already retired.
A Spanish civil servant who did no work for six years has been fined almost €27,000 (£21,000) after his long absence was finally noticed.
Officials in Cádiz were preparing to hand Joaquín García an award for long service when inquiries revealed the true extent of his contribution to the local authority.
In 1990, he was given a €37,000-a-year post at the Aguas de Cádiz public utilities provider, Spain’s El Mundo newspaper reported.
Jorge Blas Fernandez, who served as the city’s deputy mayor from 1995 to 2015, said he was given an office in the municipal building and no more was heard for more than a decade.
“We thought the water company was supervising him but that was not the case,” he added.
“We found out when we were about to present him with a commemorative plaque for 20 years of service.”
Inquiries with the manager of Aguas de Cádiz, who had an office opposite, revealed he had not seen Mr García for several years and when Mr Blas phoned his absent employee, he allegedly “could not answer” questions on what he had been doing.
A legal case was launched in 2010 alleging he had not done a day’s work since 2004, despite continuing to collect his €37,000 (£29,000) annual salary.
After a protracted lawsuit, Mr García, lost his appeal at a Cádiz court on Thursday and will have to pay his fine, which is the largest possible, The Times reported.
Mr García denied the allegations, claiming that he turned up each day but found there was no work to do.
Asked why he did not report the situation, he said he had a family to support and feared it would be difficult to find another job, so read extensively and became an “expert on the philosopher Spinoza”.
The 69-year-old was not fired from the post because he had already retired.
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Reminds me of the Office Manager at my last job. Did virtually nothing. Worked for international patent attorneys and they were loaded. So many of the employess did feck all. He had two drinking buddies, all 3 of them were nearing retirement. One of them was an attorney, but not a partner. I used to produce management accounts which included the chargeable time of all the attorneys. He was full time, got paid somewhere in the region of 50-80k a year, was always bottom of the list and must have averaged around 10-15 chargeable hours a month.
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My Kinda JOb TBH |
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Second job I had was as Design Assistant.
The so called manager was late in every day, and always arrived with a fist full of comics, and Midget Gems. Sat at his desk rubbing his hairy face and yawning for England. Six weeks on it was noticed that I did all of the work, and he was out on his ear (whatever that means). I got the key to the orange paint cupboard, and never looked back! |
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Very sensible and civilized. Britain had many jobs like this all over the country at one time. People have to ruin everything.
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When I was rushing from the car park to swipe in there was always a car parked beside the turnstile with a man listening to the car radio.
After a while I mentioned this to another worker. He said there was a row years ago in a department, the man wouldn't work with the others, and they would not work with him. He came to work every day, clocked in, then went out to the car park, sat in his car, and listened to the radio or read the newspaper. At the end of the day her clocked out.. This went on for I guess fifteen years. Eventually I think he accepted voluntary redundancy. Of course the company went out of business a few years later. |
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It just had to be a public sector job didn't it !
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It was a company that previously was semi-state, and when sold to outside interests the staff never lost the mentality.
A very high percentage of workers were related: fathers, sons, uncles, sisters, aunts. Not a recipe for success when there is always a job for the family idiot. I heard of a worker who was sacked, but just arrived for work the following week. His supporters/relations had him "un-sacked". |
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I can see how Spain got themselves into debt
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He came to work every day, clocked in, then went out to the car park, sat in his car, and listened to the radio or read the newspaper. At the end of the day her clocked out..
This isn't true is it? I bought a load of winter bedding plants, but needed some compost. Went to a place that I thought would be open, loaded four bags on a trolley, and then found they weren't open for eleven minutes! Waiting in the car, and surfing radio channels, and reading my car handbook, interspersed by pacing in the car park, and much checking of the time, was sending me mental! It may have had more credence, if you said he drove off, and came back to clock out! |
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Man in car - true
I could give many more examples of "practices". Luckily I took early retirement before the place closed two years later. |
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I should add some workers gave their ID cards to others to swipe in and swipe out for them while they were on a duvet day.
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I reckon there are plenty within the UK public sector who can claim such fame by doing no work but have confused their bosses by actually attending in person !
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This is nothing. You should go to the UAE, where expats do all the work, but loads of Emiratis are "employed" on big salaries. My mate's wife was an HR director at one of the big financial institutions. When doing the annual reviews, as well as the gradings of "good", "average", "developmental" and so on, there was a designation of "too soon to tell". One of the locals got this designation despite having been on the payroll since 1984!! His boss hadn't seen him for 6 years. Some Emiratis would get a rating of "outstanding" (plus equivalent bonus) if they showed up for work and didn't read the papers all day.
Because family is so important to them, they are allowed to disappear for any family reason. One guy apparently had to run an errand for his dad who was a bit ill, then just flew off to Europe for a week... |
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1970, 8 years old. In the car with my mum after a middle of the day trip to the dentists, dropped in to the British Rail depot in Longsight, Manchester to give something to my old fella who was "working" there.
Found him asleep on a fold out camp bed at the back of one of the sheds |
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loads at it ere as well
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there was about 10 other "workers" in there getting some kip as well
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with the Conservatives in charge I'm guessing that it's a lot harder for public sector workers to shirk
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Most of them have been redundant, so it would be would it not
There is nothing wrong with being a public sector worker if one does one job properly You think everybody who works in the private sector works hard, not my experience |