smilingjack
07-06-2005, 03:25 AM
We could use some of this in the U.S.
Lazy civil servant 'jailed'
A lazy civil servant has been given a suspended prison sentence in Austria because he never did any work.
Walter Hendelsgruber, 43, took his employers to a tribunal for unfair dismissal but had the tables turned on him.
The tribunal ruled his laziness was so extreme it bordered on the criminal - and ordered the case sent to the public prosecutor.
Hendelsgruber was given a 15 month jail sentence suspended for fraud and abuse of office because he took money for work over a three year period that he never did.
The court, in Klagenfurt, heard that county court clerk Hendelsgruber had allowed the work to mount up in his in tray without making any attempt to deal with any of it.
He had been warned five times that he risked losing his job if he did not start working, and after the fifth warning failed to get a result, he was sacked.
Lazy civil servant 'jailed'
A lazy civil servant has been given a suspended prison sentence in Austria because he never did any work.
Walter Hendelsgruber, 43, took his employers to a tribunal for unfair dismissal but had the tables turned on him.
The tribunal ruled his laziness was so extreme it bordered on the criminal - and ordered the case sent to the public prosecutor.
Hendelsgruber was given a 15 month jail sentence suspended for fraud and abuse of office because he took money for work over a three year period that he never did.
The court, in Klagenfurt, heard that county court clerk Hendelsgruber had allowed the work to mount up in his in tray without making any attempt to deal with any of it.
He had been warned five times that he risked losing his job if he did not start working, and after the fifth warning failed to get a result, he was sacked.