re: Guy got paid at work for 7 mos. while working another job

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I have difficulty believing this.

Slow working or not producing, you can get away with that for a while. But not showing up at all? Nah.

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LOL, rookie. I saw someone retire and nobody knew until LASERS sent some random notice weeks later. ..If that notice doesn’t arrive, she could still be on the payroll.

This is sort of small scale compared to the ones here. I

I work for a mom and pop technology company. Highly profitable company, but we operate shoe string and mostly work remote.

When I was asked to come work for them, they wanted to me to go out with the guy I was replacing who was going to part time to try me out with installing the product. He had been part time for a few months. We drove down to the Rio Grande Valley In this guy’s car.

While I was doing the install, the guy disappeared and left me to it for about 2 hours.

After I finished everything up, I went outside and my potential employer called me and told me I had the job even though he has no idea how I did.

He had gotten fired in that two hours because my boss found out that he had been working for another direct competitor for about 6 months and was close to being found out so he moved to part time.

He had been getting bonuses from closing business at the current job while converting some business to the competitor and floating the money for a while. One of our customers figured out that he had shown up for the other company and when he got a quote for the work he figured out that it was for a different company then ours and called my boss.

Less ongoing than most of the above but incredibly shady.

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Incompetency does not excuse fraud.

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I don't think this is actually fraud in a legally actionable sense unless the law created an affirmative duty for him to return unearned pay. He clearly never told them he quit. I doubt he intended for them to be paying him after he stopped showing up, and that intent is necessary to prove fraud.

Were they in DROP? Typical retirement while in DROP involves calling in a request to the radio station of Johnny Paycheck’s “Take This Job And Shove It.”

They’re already considered retired anyway so it isn’t like they have to tell anybody. They just walk away.

I make well over 6 figures. If I was devious I could take another job and milk my current for months.

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This could be most any government job.

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Until you work there you wont believe how close this is to being true.

All I wanna know is how do I go about receiving this guy's luck.

We have a few guys that have worked out some deal where they work from home 75% of the time. I imagine they could get away with it. Nobody really knows what they do and the few times I needed anything from them or their ‘department’ it was like pulling teeth just to get any of them to return a phone call or respond within a few days.

When they do show up at the office, they roll in around 10am and are nowhere to be found later in the afternoon. I don’t know how their boss manages them or even is allowed to give them that freedom since my company is your old school, butts in seats mentality for the most part.