Planned Retirement?

[BBB725]

I received this email, checked it and it's not true but knowing how governments work it will make all city managers check into who runs their parking lots:biggrinjester:




Outside England's Bristol Zoo there is a parking lot
for 150 cars and 8 buses. For 25 years, its
parking fees were managed by a very pleasant
attendant. The fees were 0„51 for cars ($1.40),
0„55 for busses (about $7).

Then, one day, after 25 solid years of never missing
a day of work, he just didn't show up; so the Zoo
Management called the City Council and asked it
to send them another parking agent.

The Council did some research and replied that the
parking lot was the Zoo's own responsibility.
The Zoo advised the Council that the attendant was
a City employee.
The City Council responded that the lot attendant
had never been on the City payrole.


Meanwhile, sitting in his villa somewhere on the coast of Spain
(or some such scenario), is a man who'd apparently had a
ticket machine installed completely on his own; and then
had simply begun to show up every day, commencing
to collect and keep the parking fees, estimated at about
$560 per day -- for 25 years.

Assuming 7 days a week, this amounts to just over
$7 million dollars!

 

[clayinaustin]

Sweet

 

[JupiterSunsation]

I had an old guy tell me once to eyeball with extra scrutiny any employee who never misses a day of work/ never takes a vacation. In some of those cases they have some type of scheme going and if they are gone the scheme will unravel......

I knew the guy that ran the local 9 hole golf course I played as a kid. After he retired the daily play went through the roof, or atleast the revenue did. The old guy was letting people play but not ringing up any of the cash sales......

 

[Scarab KV]

Nice