Man finally fired after not coming to work for 24 years

[UrbScotty]

Shri A.K. Verma, an executive engineer with India's Central Public Works Department (CPWD), took an earned leave in December 1990 and never came back to work.

Now, after 24 years and one month, he has been fired by the CPWD "for unauthorized absence from duty."

Verma sought extensions of his initial leave, but they were not granted; however, he still refused to come to work. In 1992, an inquiry was launched against him; in 2007, charges were brought against him by the then-minister of urban development.

Yet he was still not terminated — until now.

http://mashable.com/2015/01/09/man-fired-24-years-no-work/

[Javaman]

1. nice...um...work if you can get it. nt

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Margaretta Evans, 63, told a Myrtle Beach Police Department officer that “she has not seen or heard from her son since early June of 1995,” according to a police report.

Evans “advised that he left to follow the Grateful Dead at that time,” reported Officer Traci Chanaca.

The missing man, Jason Patrick Callahan, would now be 38, Evans told police. She described him as “approximately 5’ 10” to 6’ 00” in height and approximately 160 pounds” with “wavy brown hair and brown eyes.”