Photo by Samule Sun on Unsplash. Reflection for the Fifth Sunday of Easter He is not the first person to be fired for missing work, but Salvatore Scumace may have set a record for absenteeism. Until recently, the southern Italian man was employed in hospital fire safety. His job was to monitor cameras and to patrol corridors at night. His record is 15 years, without once having shown up for work. According to The New York Times, Mr. Scumace has taken home an estimated $645,000, without earning a penny of it. Of course, he would not have been able to walk around his home neighborhood, ostensibly retired, without the connivance of others, who are currently under investigation. But as Francesco Procopio, the general director of Pugliese Ciaccio Hospital noted,