The brits always coming up with these funny workplace examples always from the PIGS countries, and no way to comment them. Here's a pedophile english teacher detained just today in Madrid, Spain, he sexually abused 36 minors. https://elpais.com/espana/madrid/2021-04-23/detenido-un-prof...
You have a point about black legend remnants, and this happens everywhere as other comments attest to, BUT here is a spanish (Alicante) public servant that also reached 15 years without working, and this is not Mafia related:
https://www.publico.es/sociedad/funcionario-estuvo-15-anos-v...