Thursday, April 22, 2021

Like a Boss

 When it comes to loafing on the job, no one can top the Italians, not even MDOT employees. The BBC reported:

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 southern city of Catanzaro 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. BBC story.

Like a boss. 

18 comments:

Gambler53 said...

Maybe he was working remotely???

Anonymous said...

Nice work if you can get it!

Anonymous said...

This guy was obviously too honest to hold a government job. He had an unnecessary job so he just stayed home rather than play the game. Most bureaucrats understand that they are useless but they "make work" and show up for work so they can keep getting paid. This is the kind of guy who makes other government workers really mad. All he had to do was show up and sleep. The question is now whether they will eliminate this guy's unnecessary job or hire somebody else to "do his work".

Anonymous said...

No one?

I can think of ONE that tops them all.

Anonymous said...

C'mon man, don't sell MDOT employees short. I've seen them pull some amazing stunts.

Anonymous said...

It’s called a no show job. The mafia does it all the time.

Anonymous said...

A crew of MDOT showed up at the jobsite one time and realized they had forgotten all f the shovels. The Supervisor panicked and ran into the woods. He returned with 8 sticks he had found and advised the workers to lean on these while he went and got the shovels.

Anonymous said...

I am not an Mdot employee, but I don’t agree with the shade you cast on them. They have a tough job to keep our roads open with a budget that has diminished over the last 30 years.

Anonymous said...

Hell I've been paying FICA and SSA for over 40 years and still a no show.

Anonymous said...

MDOT is facing a huge layoff. The Japanese invented a shovel that can stand up by itself.

Anonymous said...

Not really loafing, straight up organized crime theft.

You have to put in the effort to report for work before the loafing can start. If they are not showing up it's not a no show job.

Anonymous said...

My shovels stand up all by themselves after I soak the handles in Viagra.

Anonymous said...

" I am not an Mdot employee, but I don’t agree with the shade you cast on them. They have a tough job to keep our roads open with a budget that has diminished over the last 30 years."

Absolutely !

The rank and file of MDOT do one hell of a job every day.

Hell ... I was a manager in a different Sate Agency . . . and could only dream of having staff such as MDOT employees.

While those guys & girls were risking their life in all kinds of weather on I-55, my employees were trying to cook their personal Thanksgiving dinners in the damn break room. ( to save $4.77 off their home electric bill)

I raised Hell, but was told there was nothing that could be done, for fear of a damn EEOC complaint.

Sorry to digress, but it pisses me off when I hear idiots talking about MDOT employees.





Anonymous said...

I fixed it for you Kingfish.

"When it comes to loafing on the job, no one can top the Italians, not even Mayor Lumumba."

Nah....Lumumba will out do the guy in the article.

Anonymous said...

The Pharisee stood by himself and prayed: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other people—robbers, evildoers, adulterers—or even like this (MDOT employee).'

Anonymous said...

Nice website you got here, Kingfish. Be real shame if something happened to it. ;)

Anonymous said...

@6:24. I worked in an MDOT project office, MDOT roadway design downtown, and now I deal with MDOT daily. It’s bloated and inefficient. There are some good folks working there, but plenty who do nothing. And the good ones don’t put in the hours. I worked in Roadway design downtown on a 7:00 to 4:00 schedule in the 90’s. I would go in at 7:00 and leave about 6:00. After a week, i was asked by Wendell Ruff not to do that. I was told to leave at 4:00 like I was supposed to. I wasn’t rewarded or praised. Instead I was told I was creating a problem by working late.

Anonymous said...



"It’s called a no show job. The mafia does it all the time."
April 22, 2021 at 9:40 AM

Esattamente! Alla calabrese ...


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