For at least six years, up until 2010, a Spanish civil servant named Joaquin Garcia collected a salary for a job he didn’t do.
Garcia had worked at a local water board in Cadiz since 1996, but when new management came in, the engineer found himself sidelined. Disillusioned and depressed, Garcia plotted an escape. He told one set of officials he was being supervised by another set, and the other set the opposite, and then stayed at home studying the philosophical works of Baruch Spinoza. His ruse was only uncovered when the town’s deputy mayor sought to award Garcia a […]
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