Man Stopped Going To Work For Six Years And Still Collected His Paychecks

An old man lived the dream for six whole years before he was caught by higher-ups who wanted to give him an award for being so so loyal.

For 14 years, 69-year-old hero Joaquin Garcia held down a government job as supervising engineer for the municipal board Cadiz, Spain. However, the last six of those years, ending 2010, Garcia didn’t bother showing up for work. Didn’t stop him from earning and cashing his paychecks, though!

TIME: A Spanish court fined a man a year’s salary following allegations that he did not show up to his government job for at least six years, according to reports.

Joaquín García, 69, served as a supervising engineer for the municipal water board in the Spanish city of Cádiz between 1996 and 2010 but by the end of his tenure had stopped going to work entirely, according to an El Mundo report. García had not been in his office in the last six years and did “absolutely no work” between 2007 and 2010, the court found.

The city’s deputy mayor, who had hired García, only realized the engineer’s absence when the city was scheduled to give García an award for his loyal service. “He was still on the payroll,” Jorge Blas Fernández, the deputy mayor, said of his thoughts when he heard about the award. “I thought, where is this man? Is he still there? Has he retired? Has he died?”

Now, García instead faces a $30,000 fine—the equivalent to one year’s salary after taxes.

García, for his part, said in court that he did not keep regular hours but was still working.

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