You guys read my incoherent bitching about having to have a dreaded day job all the time. I just hate it – I’m not meant to be a bird in a cage, y’know? I’m a peacock and baby bird’s gotta fly. Still, gotta pay the bills and fund this business somehow, right? So, until it’s time for me to walk away and run SoBros Network full time, I’m going to be sitting here daydreaming about how I can skip work and still make money.
Well, this Spanish man figured it out.
What we’ve all talked about after meetings and on our lunch breaks with co-workers actually came true for one man. And, he got away with it for nearly an entire decade. WOW.
Courtesy of The West Australian:
A civil servant has been handed a nine-year ban from public posts after it emerged he had been absent from his 50,000 Euro-a-year job for more than a decade.
Every weekday morning, Carles Recio, an archives director in Valencia’s provincial government, would turn up at his office only to clock in and head straight out again, before coming back at 4pm to clock out.
It was a routine he managed to maintain for 10 years until last summer, when, after colleagues began to raise suspicions, he was finally fired. To the anger of local authorities, an attempt to prosecute him was shelved by State attorneys, who considered that his chronic absence did not constitute a crime.
How bold! Dude’s legit just showing up to clock in and bailing. How did no one catch that? Why the hell did it take TEN YEARS for colleagues to start asking, “hey, is that normal? Should he be doing that?”
And, it wasn’t even a crime. Was it morally wrong? Sure, but morals are overrated. What matters is skimping through life as easily as possible. It’s like a real life Office Space except Carles here has figured it out in real life.
Cube monkeys all over the world are celebrating this man today, no doubt. He’s a veritable hero.
Mr Recio’s absence would have been impossible “without the acquiescence or the disinterest of the administration for which he worked,” it said.
Not only did he essentially take money from these people, but he exposed their incompetence and had some shade thrown their way, too. This dude really did execute the perfect job.
Now, we just have to figure out how we can pull it off. But, we do have something standing in our way as Americans. I can’t speak for other countries, but here, micro-management is YUGE. People can’t go a few hours without a manager checkin’ on ’em.
My advice would be to hire a stand-in. There are plenty of homeless people in Nashville. Surely, you can find one who looks like you and can act like you. Good luck and best wishes.
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