When I was a student, I worked part-time at a call center, when there were still call centers in Calgary. Anyways, being a union shop, many old-timers abused the system to get maximum benefits with minimum work.
One woman I guess in her late 50's, early 60's took it to the max. She would come in, "worked" for like 3 days, then called in sick for a week, then took vacation days off, showed up 3 weeks later, then "worked" for another 3 days, then took a paid stress leave / paid medical leave for 3 months....and the cycle repeats.
Of course when I say "work" for this grandmother of Karens, it was more like sitting around complaining about everything, and took like 20 smoke breaks and bathroom breaks in an 8-hour shift. So in a calendar year, I think she would have showed up a maximum of 30 days, but still got full pay.
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