Fascinating post here about a rather inept attempt to go on holiday while pretending to be sick:
One of our employee's was caught lying about his absence quite spectacularly today.The employee in question had been calling in sick all week, claiming he was at home in bed with a chest infection.
In reality he has been several hundred miles away in Eastern Europe.
When we heard the rumours, which were as in depth as having his flight times and departure airport, we had a look on the web to see what we could find.
It's amazing just how much you can find, as with just a surname and flight number we were able to get a copy of the employee's flight confirmation from the airline website.
With this in front of us, it was with great satisfaction that we took his call this morning.
On several occasions we asked him exactly where he was. When we asked if we could visit him at home you could hear the panic in his voice, but even at this stage he wouldn't admit the truth.
It was only when we put him out of his misery by telling him what we knew that he admitted where he was and profusely apologised.
Whether profusely apologising will be enough to save his job is highly questionable...