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Retiring Public Employee to 500 Colleagues: I Haven’t Worked in 14 Years!

Retiring Public Employee to 500 Colleagues: I Havent Worked in 14 Years!A retiring German public employee thought it’d be a good idea to email his 500 coworkers and let them all know he had been paid to do nothing for the last 14 years.

“Since 1998, I was only present but not really there. So I’m going so well prepared to retire,” the former public employee wrote in his farewell letter. He also made sure to mention that during all those years he did nothing, the city of Mendon (in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia) paid him about $975,000.

The retiree says that because of constant reshuffling at his job, he managed to get away with never having to work. Of course, according to Die Welt, he never mentioned any of this to his supervisors while, you know, he was being paid.

Naturally, many people, most especially the mayor of Mendon, are furious (or in a “considerable pinch of rage,” as the mayor puts it) over the letter.

“This kind of behaviour is very telling,” the mayor said, according to the Local.

The retiree wasn’t expecting the farewell letter to get the type of attention it has received from the German press. So instead of it being a satisfying Johnny Paycheck moment, he has managed to tick off an entire country.

“The 65-year-old thought he had had the last word before heading out of the office door for the last time — except his email was leaked to the regional media and he is now the focus of some attention,” the Local report adds.

“I do not wish to say anything else,” he told his local paper. “That email was not intended for public view.”

Well, that public money wasn’t intended to be wasted, so let’s call it even.

(H/T: BI)

Comments (136)

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  • Kenny
    Posted on April 12, 2012 at 2:37am

    welfare recipients and government union workers are the slave masters
    the irs and law enforcement are the field hands who beat the slaves into shape
    we are their slaves…the private sector worker.
    just a side note if the country was founded on the principle of no taxation without representation
    then shouldn’t the reverse be true. no representation without taxation.
    if you don’t contribute then you should have NO SAY in what should done with the money of those who are forced to contribute.
    and to all you who are filled with hateful envy (democrats) who say that people pay sales tax and social security and medicare taxes. first, sales taxes are a LOCAL AND STATE issue, not federal. second, social security is an “insurance policy” as is medicare. as i said, if you are a child (that‘s what you call someone who has to have others take care of them because they can’t or won’t) you should have no say in GROWN UP situations. i don’t let my child tell me how the money i make is to be spent. why should a parasite such as a welfare recipient have any say ? just a thought…

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    • FlowerBell
      Posted on April 12, 2012 at 4:55am

      What difference does it make if a welfare recipient pays sales tax? It wasn’t really their money. The money was already taxed from the person who actually worked for it. It’s not new to the system, it just recycles around and around, doing nothing. It’s like a store owner buying their own products to make their sales receipts look good. It’s pointless.

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    • lukerw
      Posted on April 12, 2012 at 6:38am

      A HERO of the SOCIALIST STATE!

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  • The Gooch
    Posted on April 12, 2012 at 2:19am

    See! Govt. is such a well-oiled machine that its employees can set back and let the magic happen. Hell, this should reinforce your faith in govt. Try that in the public sectory and you will likely be noticed. My employers have tended to fire people who sleep on the job. Must be a management issue…. Get a good govt. agent on this problem. Unless he or she is napping… you don’t wanna disturb genius at work.

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    • trappedinwv
      Posted on April 12, 2012 at 5:27am

      It doesn’t matter if they are caught, you can’t fire them. (Unions) The process would drive most people crazy if they knew how insane it is.

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    • wdittgasn
      Posted on April 12, 2012 at 6:51am

      You know what… Things will take care of themselves. You jump off a cliff, you hit the ground…. You run an engine without oil, It seizes up. You reap what you sow!!

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  • stotlaat
    Posted on April 12, 2012 at 2:05am

    Ive met his type! Sad. Threw his time away then bragged like a burglar confessing in a house he‘d pillaged or a boy who ravashed an incapacitated soul who’d passed out. Not cool

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  • South Philly Boy
    Posted on April 12, 2012 at 1:59am

    Only in America

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    • wolfinshdo
      Posted on April 12, 2012 at 2:03am

      In case you missed it, the guy is German and lives in Germany. Duh…

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    • 1american
      Posted on April 12, 2012 at 11:45am

      We have the same kind of mentality in some of the unions here in America. Not all but a good portion of the employee’s just show up and that is good enough to collect a paycheck. Sad really, how do you feel any sense of accomplishment from that kind of work ethic?

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  • hogtrashhd
    Posted on April 12, 2012 at 1:06am

    he ain’t got nothing on the blacks who work here in the US..99% of them could be laid off and it would be like, who got laid off?? i don‘t remember those people and i’ve been working here for 40 years.. they take turns clocking each other in and out.. fact…

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  • OhYeah
    Posted on April 12, 2012 at 12:59am

    It is funny how guilt causes a person to confess or set themselves up to get caught every time. He speaks as though it was prison and he just got out. So money doesn’t bring you happiness. Honest days work for pay does.

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  • Less1leg
    Posted on April 12, 2012 at 12:48am

    This is so typical of Public Sector Union jobs, the real honest to goodness “ NoWhere Man”. In private industry accountants are always questioning “value added employment”. You know, if you are doing something that produces work and that work is deemed a value to the company. that job is circled as a “keeper”. But if you don’t add value, and your services are questionable. Those jobs are red flagged and terminated. Either rolled into other work of value, or outright written out of the books. But in the Public Sector Union side with restructuring. Names, faces, job descriptions I can see easily being over written and lost. And people can and will be forgotten. Just like this guy. Nobody ever came up to say, What exactly do you do? No supervisor, or a change of supervisors not knowing their department, And he/she gets lost over time. No papers being handed in, no reports, to anything. Just a NoWhere Man who comes looks like he’s doing something, Never a problem, never sick, never noticed. Drinks his coffee, reads a bit, walks about the building, regular bowel movement trips. Just unassuming, and a nowhere man. A smile, a small wave, And nobody knowing a thing of what exactly does that fella over there do? A real No Where Man…. Public Service Workers working by stealth.

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  • tutilal
    Posted on April 12, 2012 at 12:47am

    I am in california of all places. I have had a couple of co workers (big word) that one of them didnt show for work for at least 6 months before the “boss” found out. Never punish, another will get to the office at 8 am. and put his feet on the desk and SPLEEP all day. Both never miss a penny on they pay checks. The worst was a supervisor that claim an “injuy on the job” got all the medicals she needes, “retired” with party and presents, got injured again outside the office and allready “retired” still got all the “goodies” from workers comp, and a year and a half later still on pay roll, and no one ever did anything. Isn’t this “system” grand?
    But if you work hard and are responsible, you just get “grounded”.

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    • ChiefGeorge
      Posted on April 12, 2012 at 1:39am

      I see the commandment cutting both ways here. Thou shall not covet thy neighbors goods. Whether this be in earned status or otherwise. Can you imagine if then everyone doing this because they coveted the free mode of living while supposedly working? The whole system would cave in. But can you imagine a world where one strives to get where their neighbor is through their own hard work and initiative…? Priceless.

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  • trappedinwv
    Posted on April 12, 2012 at 12:42am

    LOL and the unions in the US prevent the management from doing anything about it.

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  • mickd
    Posted on April 11, 2012 at 11:49pm

    Typical government employee, doesn’t matter which side of the pond they are on. Mainly lazy leeches, that couldn’t hold down a real job.

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  • Jaycen
    Posted on April 11, 2012 at 11:45pm

    Germany should be angry at his bosses. Responsibility rolls UP hill, gang. Leadership. Responsibility.

    Sure, the worker is a jerk, but every supervisor up his chain deserves to be fired without pension. His immediate co-workers should be fired for not reporting him.

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  • ColoradoMaverick
    Posted on April 11, 2012 at 11:41pm

    Oh yes, let’s go with the Euro-socialist model for our country!!

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    • oldguy49
      Posted on April 12, 2012 at 12:05am

      we already have…..G.S.A. oh and 20 -30 years ago when epa was created to reduce our dependencey on foreign oil 20% i believe at that time…………..billions of dollars later and we are now dependent by 40%……….government not at work

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  • KINGRUDDY
    Posted on April 11, 2012 at 11:31pm

    This emai could have come from……. Pelosi, Biden, Teddy Kennedy, Bird, Schumer, AL franken, this list goes on and on…..
    Wake up America!!!

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  • lel2007
    Posted on April 11, 2012 at 11:30pm

    This guy’s a worthless slug, and he’s proud of it.

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  • Just in time
    Posted on April 11, 2012 at 11:30pm

    Ramonpreston, I must respectively disagree, he has worked very hard at concealing the truth

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  • Joker50
    Posted on April 11, 2012 at 11:04pm

    That’s no big deal. We have hundreds of thousands of people working for the Federal Government that do nothing. Let’s start with Congress and work our way up!!!

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    • caleamerica
      Posted on April 11, 2012 at 11:27pm

      And those hundreds of thousands did nothing in college…just like the millions that are going to college today. Hardly any work goes into getting passing grades in college. A lot of these people that get decent paying jobs because of their degree will continue to do nothing in the work force for the rest of their lives just like this guy.

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    • ChiefGeorge
      Posted on April 12, 2012 at 1:42am

      I have tried to stem the tide of laziness in the armed forces aka government and got called a bigot and racist for it. I expected hard work for pay and performance appraisals just like what was expected of me, the only thing was nobody told me the rules changed somewhere between 1981 and 2000.

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    • istasko
      Posted on April 12, 2012 at 6:28am

      I worked for the Fed Gov’t for 5 years. It was a pretty good job, I did NOT work my butt off (mostly), but it wasn’t expected that you did. I was very young, late teens when I worked there. Boy, have I changed…that would drive me crazy now. In fact, probably most gov’t agencies have what we had there, a “hall of shame”. This is where those who have outlived their usefullness prepare for their retirement by doing nothing for the last few years of their career.

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  • Got2bRoni
    Posted on April 11, 2012 at 10:57pm

    Lol.

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  • Fonz777
    Posted on April 11, 2012 at 10:47pm

    That can’t be enjoyable accomplishing nothing – what a dull business

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    • randy
      Posted on April 11, 2012 at 11:01pm

      Sounds like George Castanza? :)

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    • greatgrandma
      Posted on April 11, 2012 at 11:22pm

      Sounds like Obama, all he had to say was present………..

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    • amendment1
      Posted on April 11, 2012 at 11:51pm

      Randy, he probably had a carpenter modify his desk so he could sleep under it too.

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  • Tired of Code Names
    Posted on April 11, 2012 at 10:45pm

    My mother spent many years in the Civil Service. All accounts….an office of 20…perhaps only three or four pull their weight. Can’t fire anyone like a real business would do. This country leaks away so much money to federal, state and city/county employees its discusting. I call it middle class welfare because that is what it is. They get paid and with benefits that most middle class folks would work their butts off to have.

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  • TROONORTH
    Posted on April 11, 2012 at 10:45pm

    Even the government drones who are ‘working’ aren’t actually working all that hard.

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  • RamonPreston
    Posted on April 11, 2012 at 10:43pm

    I don’t like you or your money.

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  • HTuttle
    Posted on April 11, 2012 at 10:37pm

    From a study on wealth income inequality stats based on Germany data.
    http://www.lisproject.org/conference/papers/frick-grabka.pdf
    Conclusion
    “Entitlements from old-age pension schemes—statutory, occupational, and private—represent a considerable source of wealth. For data-related reasons, however, empirical analyses of wealth inequality in Germany have failed to take this important component adequately into account. ”
    “This extended measure of wealth shows considerably (about 25 percent) less inequality than traditional analyses that refer only to financial and material assets (net worth). “

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    • db321
      Posted on April 11, 2012 at 10:43pm

      I know that guy – he ignored me for 10 or 15 minutes.

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  • broker0101
    Posted on April 11, 2012 at 10:34pm

    It’ll be Hilarious to see how many Blazers make stupid comments without bothering to read that this happened in Germany.

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    • Doug Piranha
      Posted on April 11, 2012 at 10:43pm

      So far…none. The only stupid comment has come from..well…you.

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    • jeanr
      Posted on April 11, 2012 at 10:58pm

      hcartexas: Are you accusing Doug of being Catholic? Why, how dare you, sir.

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    • RJJinGadsden
      Posted on April 11, 2012 at 10:59pm

      BROKER0101, Lived there for almost nine years, so I caught that fact right away. Haven’t been to that town though.

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    • marine249
      Posted on April 12, 2012 at 2:14am

      @broker0101

      Read the 1st three words [A retiring GERMAN ] it doesn’t say N.Y. City or N. Y. State.
      You may wish to understand what you have just read.
      That way will not be making so many dumb azz post.

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  • Southpaw
    Posted on April 11, 2012 at 10:31pm

    Coming to a country near YOU!!

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  • theninthplanet
    Posted on April 11, 2012 at 10:29pm

    He should run for Senate as a Democrat.

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    • CatB
      Posted on April 11, 2012 at 10:33pm

      Yes .. just like many of the gov’t employees here. He might be over qualified as a Democrat.

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    • RamonPreston
      Posted on April 11, 2012 at 10:39pm

      We have a president who hasn’t worked in 3 1/2 years.

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    • theninthplanet
      Posted on April 11, 2012 at 10:41pm

      Over qualified certainly. But he’d also fit right in on the budget committee.

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