https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/worl...k-for-15-years/ar-BB1fU1og?ocid=msedgdhp

A hospital employee in Italy has been accused of skipping work on full pay for 15 years, local media report.

The man is alleged to have stopped turning up to work at the Ciaccio hospital in the city of Catanzaro, Puglia, in 2005.

He is now being investigated for fraud, extortion and abuse of office, Italian news agency Ansa reports.

He was reportedly paid €538,000 (£464,000) in total over the years he is thought not to have been working.

Six managers at the hospital are also being investigated in connection with the alleged absenteeism.

The arrests are the result of a lengthy police investigation into absenteeism and suspected fraud in the Italian public sector.

The employee was a civil servant, and was assigned to a job in the hospital in 2005. It was at this point he stopped going into work, the police said.

The police have also accused him of threatening his manager to stop her from filing a disciplinary report against him.

That manager later retired, police added, and his ongoing absence was never noticed by her successor or human resources.

Sounds like good work if you can get it.

He's consistant.

Was he elected to Congress?

'I'll give you half if you look the other way"

Well, Catanzaro is in Calabria, not Puglia, so maybe he was just showing up in the wrong place.

Italy's own real life George Costanza.

So I guess that position is now vacant?

I heard of an employee doing that here but only for less than a month before he was caught and terminated. Supposedly he was clocking in and leaving to go to another job he had and then sneaking back to clock out.
Im sure he had help from other employees to do this.

We call that welfare here in the States.

Quite a gig.
Sounds like a lot of civil servant jobs.

Union job?

This.

my dream job

If he had worked for the US Forest Service, he would have made it to retirement. I know a 'mineral claims administrator' who was sent home (covid panic) 14 months ago, still on full pay with no homework.

[quote=JakeBlues]We call that welfare here in the States


Yep

Money for the nothin’ and the checks for free...

I know of US Army COE employee's whose last year consists of sitting at a desk all day looking at porn on their desktop computers

I was seconded from Royal Dutch Shell to AGIP (a piece of ENI, Italy's O&G major) offshore Kazakhstan and saw nothing but obvious corruption and complete incompetence. They praised the country's leader, Silvio Berlusconi... Made me sick being a second gen Italian American.

Hasn't done a days work in fifteen years...yeah, I think I have worked with him.

I’d work half as hard for half the pay.

Luckily the accrued vacation pay will easily cover the fine.

He must have been a Union Stewart.

Has been, for 15 yrs!😀

HA...I hadn't thought of that angle!

I remember several years ago I was watching a 20/20 or Dateline, one of those shows and they were investigating this guy who "worked for .gov". They did a deep dive on him and found out he was making something over $400,000.00 a year, but when they checked his work location nobody had ever heard of him and they trailed him for something like 6 months and while he was driving a .gov issued car he never went near a .gov office or went to any meetings. All he did was golf and spent time at his second home out in the keys. When they exposed him all he did was retire from his position and started collecting a huge retirement and they never did figure out what agency he worked for. Don't know if he was a spook or figured out how to work the system.

Haha. Might be one of my distant cousins. My grandparents came from Spezzano Calabria. Not far from there. Article didn’t state his last name but I do have relatives in Catanzaro also.

I had a couple of drunks that probably didn t remember the last 15 years of work.Their bosssßßdy was there,but Elvis had left the building.

But, they hired some smoking hot chicks when I was there.