Our thanks to Nigel for this. He writes:

“This is perhaps an extreme case. And it should be no surprise that its a HR professional. But this sort of gaming the system is common in Public services in my experience. Getting progressively worse over 40 years. Compassionate provisions for childcare, bereavement, serious illness or caring for family members become more and more stretched and pets, distant family members or boyfriends become pretexts for flexible hours, compassionate leave, “sabbaticals”. Latterly all sorts of “mental health” issues also. With a strange coincidence of these with school holidays. Needless to say “HR” were useless in trying to tackle any of this.”

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