youIn order to avoid work, a Swedish tax official has dialed his phone number for several hours. According to a disciplinary report from the Swedish tax authority, the 28-year-old man did not answer the customer’s call, but instead called himself on his cell phone. As a result, he appeared in the employer’s system as a “busy”, and all customer calls were forwarded to other employees.
Between March 10 and May 5, the Swede named Andreas called his contacts 32 times. As a result, he killed a total of 55 working hours, which is equivalent to 7 working days. “Some of these calls lasted several hours,” the report said. The man is now threatened with dismissal.
The Swede’s misconduct was apparently not immediately noticed because he has been working in the home office since January 2021. It was not until April that one of his supervisors realized that the phone calls he made were unusually long compared to other tax officials.
When asked, the man finally admitted that he did not have a job during these calls. Obviously, he was not particularly regretful: an internal investigation revealed that even after confessing, he still made four phone calls to his mobile number. In another subpoena in May, the man defended himself, saying that his motivation for work was “very low”.
