A Spanish civil servant elevated the term “ playing truancy ” to new heights , after officials discovered he had been vamoose body of work for at least six long time .
Joaquin Garcia , a 69 - class - old supervisor at a wastewater treatment plan in the southwestern urban center of Cádiz , was busted in 2010 after he became eligible for a commemorative honor celebrating 20 years of servicing , the BBC report . Inquiries to his manager revealed that although Garcia had been give the situation in 1990 , nobody had heard a peep from his authority in years . Garcia mislay an appeal bear on to the case earlier this year .
agree toThe Independent , when Garcia ’s manager strain calling him , Garcia allegedly could n’t suffice questions about what he had been doing . “ We thought the H2O party was superintend him but that was not the slip , ” Jorge Blas Fernandez , who worked as the city ’s deputy mayor from 1995 to 2015 , tell Spain’sEl Mundonewspaper .
A legal grammatical case launched against Garcia in 2010 alleged that he had collected an one-year salary of € 37,000 despite having not worked since 2004 . This week , Garcia lost his appeal against the case . He was ordered to paya fine of € 27,000(or $ 30,000)—one year ’s Charles Frederick Worth of his annual salary after tax , and the large sum that the wastewater party could lawfully find .
Garcia deny the allegations . The 69 - year - erstwhile said that he was a victim of political bullying in a former view and the company move him to a unlike C. W. Post . He showed up to work at his new job every day only to find that there was nothing to do . Since Garcia had a family to keep going , he did n’t report the office , and or else spend his days reading school of thought .
Garcia reportedly pen to the city manager , bespeak not to have to give the amercement , and he also assay a reassessment of the judgment .
While Garcia ’s six - year work hiatus has made world headlines , this is n’t the first time that a paid employee simply stopped going to work without a manager ’s notice . In 2015 , an Indian public official constitute AK Vermawas fired for taking a 24 - twelvemonth “ furlough . ”Meanwhile , an unnamed city worker in Norfolk , Virginiawas sacked in 2010for collecting a salary with benefits for 12 years without show up to work . make you feel a picayune better about that " sick day " you took last week , huh ?
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