Carles Recio skipped work for 10-years before being caught A Spanish public servant somehow managed to skip work for a decade, without anyone noticing
Carles Recio, an archives director in Valencia’s provincial government on €50k annually, spent 10-years skipping work before finally being caught.
Mr. Recio pulled off his ruse by showing up to his office every morning at 7:30am to clock in using the fingerprint scanner before heading straight home. He would then return to the office at 3:30pm to clock out.
Unbelievably, he manged to keep doing this for 10-years before colleagues began to grow suspicious.
Mr Recio was eventually sacked for his absence, however he insisted he had done nothing wrong when speaking to Spanish newspaper El Mundo.
“I have only done what they have asked me to do,” he told the paper.
Mr Recio maintained that he worked from home. “No one can show me a photograph in which I’m in a cafeteria, I’m a man of action,” he told the Spanish TV channel La Sexta.
“I do documentation work out of the office, the work of a slave. Working like a slave means that I work so that others get the fruit of my labour.”
Despite his objections, an administrative tribunal in Valencia found there was no evidence Mr Recio had performed any of the jobs he claimed, and that he had not even logged in to the corporate network since 2012 despite having his own computer.
It also found no evidence for his claims that he had told superiors he didn’t have a desk following an office relocation, or that he had been assigned an external project to create an “inclusive art centre.”
“There is not the slightest evidence that he was entrusted with the project of creating an inclusive art work centre or similar and the activities carried out by him are more like private dedications than authentic ones,” the tribunal said.
Well... I guess you really can't blame the lad for trying can you?
