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German civil servant says he 'did nothing for 17 years'

A German civil servant has admitted that he "did nothing for 14 years" in frank retirement email sent to colleagues.


By Bruno Waterfield

1:24PM BST 12 Apr 2012

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The man, aged 65, sent a farewell message to 500 colleagues on his retirement day after learning his job was axed due to cuts.


In the email round robin to other civil servants in Menden, in Germany's North Rhine-Westphalia, he boasted that he had earned £613,000 (745,000 euros) for doing no work.


"Since 1998, I was present but not really there. So I'm going to be well prepared for retirement – Adieu," he wrote, in an email leaked to the Westfalen-Post newspaper.


The admission that a civil servant could be paid for 14 years without doing any work is embarrassing for Germany because it is leading calls for austerity cuts to the public sector in eurozone countries such as Greece and Spain.


The unnamed man, who has worked in a municipal state surveyor's office since 1974, accused the municipal authorities of creating inefficient, overlapping and parallel structures, even employing another surveying engineer to do the same job, leaving him with nothing to do. Of course, I well benefited from the freedom that came by to me," he wrote.



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He also accused the Menden city authorities of buying unusable computers and software but has since refused to publicly detail his allegations.

"I do not wish to say anything else. That email was not intended for public view," he said.

Volker Fleige, the mayor of Menden, said that he had felt a "good dose of rage" when he saw the email, as the employee had not once complained about not having enough to do during his 38 years of employment.

"This kind of behaviour is very worrying," he said.

Mr Fleige said that there would be no sanctions against the former civil servant and that following budget cuts his job would not be filled.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldne ... years.html

[Schnauzer]

The fact that this 'Gentleman' has (maybe) drawn attention to a situation which may now be rectified in the Government Departments, has SPOILED his boast since there will now be an investigation into the wastage he has highlighted and considerable savings will be made.

Therefore, he has ended his career by doing SOMETHING extremely useful.

[CBBB]

You sure he is not a Greek?