Employee accused of skipping work for 15 years

Re:Employee accused of skipping work for 15 years by throwaway0a5e on Thursday April 22, 2021 @07:39AM (#26901590)

This kind of thing is rampant in Italy's public sector (and other nations as well). They basically just found one of the worst offenders (i.e. the guy that half the public sector employees aim to be) and are making an example out of him.

The timing relative to other government misconduct in Italy is suspiciously convenient I might add.

If this wasn't broadly considered ok he wouldn't have gotten away with it for 15yr and they wouldn't be going back 15yr to find "alleged threats" he made. Based on my experience the threat was something less like "imma bust a cap in yo ass" and more likely along the lines of "you know everyone does this and if you take a hard stance on this misconduct your career progression is dead" which is something that not everyone has to be explicitly told but a situation that damn near every career public servant (not just in Italy) will have to deal with at some point.

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Re:Employee accused of skipping work for 15 years by toyg on Thursday April 22, 2021 @08:37AM (#26902033)

See my other response about why you’re wrong about threats. This was beyond normal, it’s part of proceedings against 57 people involved in a scheme in the same hospital. Between this and the threats, chances are that “somebody” was managing the hospital as their personal cash machine.

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Re:Employee accused of skipping work for 15 years by throwaway0a5e on Thursday April 22, 2021 @09:11AM (#26902345)

Like I replied elsewhere, my assumption was perfectly reasonable given the information provided by the BBC.

If there was a major plot twist like he actually threatened physical violence as opposed to the usual retaliation should I not be able to count on them to mention that?

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