That's too funny! They only caught him because they were going to give him an award for 20 years of service! He was only actually working for 14 of those years!
There is no difference between our "government" and theirs. The federal government could fire two out of three employees and no one would notice. No one noticed the "government shut down" with the exception of high profile targeted places that would make the news.
There are people like this in all kinds of industry, government and private, large and small. I've never known one to last 6 years, but there have been plenty of people at past employers that no one knew WTF they did. And, usually they did show up, one or two were strictly work from home. And likely they had some kinda project they were working on, generally some manager's pet project that never gets done before some reorg gets rid of them...
My parents used to keep a boat in the Virgin Islands. They had a friend on another boat who was a lineman for Detroit Edison who had suffered an injury and had been placed on injury leave. He had been on this status for three years and actually couldn't do that job anymore, but had always said that if they found him a desk job, he'd be right back to work. Some HR person back in Detroit got her back up about this guy cruising around on injury leave and decided to call him back. True to his word, he out the boat up for sale, bought winter clothes and went back home to Detroit. When everyone saw that he was serious about taking the job that really didn't need doing, they gave him early retirement instead.
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He had six years to think up an answer for when that happened.
This sounds like a Seinfeld episode.
Awesome. That's like a George Costsnza wet dream...
Just think of how much time he would have had to go clubbing with???