i feel your pain
We had a 'tech' in a place I worked a while ago.

'Glassback' they called him, he would take the months of May to Sept off every year due to back related illness and then take his 6 weeks holiday between then and Christmas then repeat it all again next year.

He could barely spell, didn't know how to switch on his own PC and when asked to do any work he replied "fuck off, i'm busy"

We complained several times to the manager who would say we had a bad attitude and that he was a good guy and just needed help. He had been working there as long as I had been alive, that's 30 years.....30 years of work dodging.

Every time they tried to discipline him or even think of getting rid of him he would call the union in. In the end they restructured the whole department, an re-interviewed everyone for their own jobs just to get rid of the guy.
( Bamboo Steamer, Wed 8 Sep 2010, 12:01, Reply)