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Re:Employee accused of skipping work for 15 years by pmiller2 on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @08:16PM (#26897076)
Discussion of a different article about the same person here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26889281
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Re:Employee accused of skipping work for 15 years by dang on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @08:28PM (#26897178)
There's an entire slough of old "I automated my job" threads, some of which are more interesting than this story. Perhaps someone will dig up a few.
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Re:Employee accused of skipping work for 15 years by pmiller2 on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @08:34PM (#26897226)
I actually prefer the "I just kept showing up, and they kept paying me, but I didn't do any actual work" threads, if nothing else for the sheer absurdity of it.
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Re:Employee accused of skipping work for 15 years by umvi on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @08:25PM (#26897156)
Isn't that common in Italy with the mafia? (i.e. getting your family members on payroll without them having to actually show up?)

Edit: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-show_job

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Re:Employee accused of skipping work for 15 years by eindiran on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @08:27PM (#26897163)
In shows like The Sopranos at least they're called "no-show jobs".

Edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-show_job

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Re:Employee accused of skipping work for 15 years by BlasDeLezo on Friday April 23, 2021 @05:53AM (#26912907)
It's wonderful the BBC always coming up with these funny workplace examples always from the PIGS countries, and no way to comment them. Here's a pedophile english teacher detained just today in Madrid, Spain, he sexually abused 36 minors. https://elpais.com/espana/madrid/2021-04-23/detenido-un-prof...
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