Now that's some advanced skiving

[vetran]

INKSPE I've earned that by lunchtime

don't tell Warty he wont believe you!

[Halo Jones]

Will check them out

[ladymuck]

I have a new tool so I too can do some advanced skiving

Skiving is the act of thinning leather, normally at the edges or for joints

ooh! I keep forgetting for you and Cojak - there's been some interesting leather bag making and other things on the British Museum and V&A YouTube sites recently. There was also a book binding one. Probably doesn't show you anything you don't already know as they're more intros to crafts than anything technically detailed.

[ladymuck]

£342 inc. VAT is roughly one day of clocking on in your underwear and then going back to bed.

INKSPE I've earned that by lunchtime

[jamesbrown]

I have a new tool so I too can do some advanced skiving

Skiving is the act of thinning leather, normally at the edges or for joints

£342 inc. VAT is roughly one day of clocking on in your underwear and then going back to bed.

[Halo Jones]

I have a new tool so I too can do some advanced skiving

Skiving is the act of thinning leather, normally at the edges or for joints

[vetran]

I think these chaps could become consultants!

[AtW]

A fair few people at Yahoo.com worked from home back in the before times, and it turned out some of them actually had two full time jobs.

[ladymuck]

It has been brought to my attention that anything an Italian can do, an Indian can do better:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/b...s-9965488.html

A civil servant in India was sacked from his job – after not turning up to work for 25 years. The Central Public Works Department (CPWD) finally dismissed the man for unauthorised absence this week, the Indian Express reported, citing the Press Trust of India news agency.

[ladymuck]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...k-for-15-years


A public sector worker described as the “king of absentees” by the Italian press is said to have broken the national record by allegedly skipping work for 15 years.

Police say the hospital employee continued to be paid a monthly salary amounting to a total of €538,000 (£646,000) despite not turning up to work at Pugliese Ciaccio hospital in the Calabrian city of Catanzaro since 2005.

Now aged 67, he faces charges of abuse of office, forgery and aggravated extortion. Six managers are also being investigated on suspicion of having played a role in enabling his alleged absenteeism, which is rife in Italy’s public sector.

In an investigation codenamed Part Time, police gathered their evidence from attendance and salary records as well as witness statements from colleagues. In 2005, the man is alleged to have made threats against the hospital director to stop her from filing a disciplinary report over his absenteeism.

The director then retired and the man’s absenteeism continued unabated because his attendance was never checked by the director’s successor or the human resources department, police said.

In 2016 the government tightened a law against the workshy after several high-profile police investigations revealed just how rampant absenteeism was across the public sector.

In one investigation, police used secret surveillance cameras to ensnare 35 workers at Sanremo’s town hall who had been cheating the time management system for at least two years. The wives of two of the employees were caught using their husband’s staff cards to clock on for them, while other staff members clocked on before going canoeing, shopping or out with friends.

In another case, a traffic police officer who lived in the same building he worked in was filmed clocking on in his underwear before going back to bed.