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Man who used potato chip bag to skip work for years has been fired
November 30, 2017, 08:20 AM
JALLENMan who used potato chip bag to skip work for years has been fired
An Australian electrician was fired recently for using a potato chip bag to ditch work and play golf, and he actually got away with it for two years before he was caught.
According to Yahoo News Australia, 60-year-old Tom Colella was a senior union delegate and had worked as an electrician for the same company for 20 years. Then one day his employers got an anonymous tip saying Colella had actually been playing golf while he was supposed to be at work at least 140 times during the past two years. Somehow, nobody had noticed his absence.
Like other employees at his company, Colella had a personal digital assistant that tracked his assigned and completed job tasks and also had a GPS that monitored his location. Colella allegedly hid his PDA in an empty foil potato chip bag and sealed it up, which blocked the GPS signal and hid his location from his employers.
Colella initially claimed the PDA had a glitch, but Australia’s Fair Work Commission, a workplace tribunal, declared there was no reasonable explanation for his potato chip bag trick other than trying to sneak out of work. He was reportedly golfing during work for at least 21 days during the month of April.
"Mr. Colella appears to have been deliberately mischievous in acting in this manner," said tribunal commissioner Bernie Riordan.
Colella allegedly used his chip bag to hide his location, but he was still able to update his job information as though he were completing assigned tasks. Somehow, nobody noticed what was going on.
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Luckily, I have enough willpower to control the driving ambition that rages within me.
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Timdogg6When I did insurance defense work we used to send subpoenas to the USGA and state golf associations for all palintiffs, amazing that they had excruciating back pain but were reporting scores to track their handicap for golf tournaments.
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November 30, 2017, 08:45 AM
sigmonkeyWonder if he were Lay'd off during the inquest?
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V-Tailquote:
Originally posted by Timdogg6:
When I did insurance defense work we used to send subpoenas to the USGA and state golf associations for all palintiffs, amazing that they had excruciating back pain but were reporting scores to track their handicap for golf tournaments.
What you did not know, was that they had gone to Lourdes for the miracle cure.
הרחפת שלי מלאה בצלופחים November 30, 2017, 08:50 AM
RogueJSKquote:
Originally posted by sigmonkey:
Wonder if he were Lay'd off during the inquest?
I imagine this is going to Ruffle his career plans.
November 30, 2017, 08:52 AM
RHINOWSOquote:
Originally posted by Timdogg6:
When I did insurance defense work we used to send subpoenas to the USGA and state golf associations for all palintiffs, amazing that they had excruciating back pain but were reporting scores to track their handicap for golf tournaments.
BAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAH!!!!
That is PRICELESS!!!!!
November 30, 2017, 08:58 AM
JALLENquote:
Originally posted by Timdogg6:
When I did insurance defense work we used to send subpoenas to the USGA and state golf associations for all palintiffs, amazing that they had excruciating back pain but were reporting scores to track their handicap for golf tournaments.
Bowling leagues, too, I imagine.
Luckily, I have enough willpower to control the driving ambition that rages within me.
When you had the votes, we did things your way. Now, we have the votes and you will be doing things our way. This lesson in political reality from Lyndon B. Johnson
"Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." - Justice Janice Rogers Brown November 30, 2017, 09:02 AM
ensigmaticquote:
Originally posted by sigmonkey:
Wonder if he were Lay'd off during the inquest?
"America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system,,,, but too early to shoot the bastards." -- Claire Wolfe
"If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living." -- Seneca the Younger, Roman Stoic philosopher November 30, 2017, 09:09 AM
trapper189Well, there goes his chip shot. I'm sure he thought he had it in the bag.
November 30, 2017, 09:11 AM
DoubleAdobeApparently, he is just a damn Cheeto.
November 30, 2017, 09:14 AM
egregoreTwo years? Shouldn't multiple clients complaining that their work wasn't getting done have been a tipoff?
November 30, 2017, 09:23 AM
BamaJeepsterquote:
Originally posted by egregore:
Two years? Shouldn't multiple clients complaining that their work wasn't getting done have been a tipoff?
Normally yes, but you must have missed this:
Tom Colella was a senior union delegate
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mark123quote:
Originally posted by RogueJSK:
quote:
Originally posted by sigmonkey:
Wonder if he were Lay'd off during the inquest?
I imagine this is going to Ruffle his career plans.
He's probably salty about being fired.
November 30, 2017, 10:05 AM
DennisMSo he got sacked? Fried?
But seriously: A Potato Chip Faraday Bag? Respect.
November 30, 2017, 10:07 AM
zoom6zoomThe chips fall where they may.
I have my own style of humor. I call it Snarkasm. November 30, 2017, 10:10 AM
SigSACHe just wanted to work on his chip shot.
November 30, 2017, 10:13 AM
ffipsquote:
Originally posted by mark123:
quote:
Originally posted by RogueJSK:
quote:
Originally posted by sigmonkey:
Wonder if he were Lay'd off during the inquest?
I imagine this is going to Ruffle his career plans.
He's probably salty about being fired.
Now he will be Frito BBQ.
November 30, 2017, 10:44 AM
KMitch200quote:
Originally posted by BamaJeepster:
quote:
Originally posted by egregore:
Two years? Shouldn't multiple clients complaining that their work wasn't getting done have been a tipoff?
Normally yes, but you must have missed this:
Tom Colella was a senior union delegate
Guess how many 24hr shifts the union president of the Firefighter local used to do on his truck?
If you guessed somewhere between -1 and 2, you'd be real close.
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November 30, 2017, 10:45 AM
Edmondquote:
Originally posted by BamaJeepster:
quote:
Originally posted by egregore:
Two years? Shouldn't multiple clients complaining that their work wasn't getting done have been a tipoff?
Normally yes, but you must have missed this:
Tom Colella was a senior union delegate
Wow! I can't imagine how little work or worth that position has.
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November 30, 2017, 11:02 AM
sigspecopsWow, all that time he was really out having fun yuns.
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