Six Years of Paid Vacation

WEIRD NEWS Man Skipped Work For 6 Years And No One Noticed Until He Won An Award "I wondered whether he was still working there, had he retired, had he died? But the payroll showed he was still receiving a salary." For six years, a building supervisor in Spain quietly collected a $41,500 salary from his local government without showing up for work. And he would have gotten away with it too if it wasn't for him getting an award for his 20 years of loyal service. Joaquín García, 69, was recently fined $30,000 for the extended paid vacation from a water treatment plant in Cádiz -- the maximum penalty government officials could deliver, the BBC reported. According to deputy mayor Jorge Blas, it wasn't until García was due to be recognized for his hard work in 2010 that authorities realized his office was sitting vacant.

A news-style meme shows an empty office while describing how Spanish building supervisor Joaquín García collected a salary for six years without going to work. The absurd punchline is that nobody noticed until he was nominated for an award celebrating 20 years of loyal service, making the award itself expose his fraud. The video pairs this deadpan workplace scandal with “Bat — goals (feat. Boofa),” whose music adds an ironic, amused mood to the unbelievable story.

♪ Bat — goals (feat. Boofa)

• @right_wing_dev_squads / 2924 2021-11-18