You'd think that since Carlo Cani was claustrophobic, he'd know better than to take a job in a coal mine. Well, he did know better than to work in the mine that employed him. He started skipping work with some normal malingering, then moved on to pretending to be drunk, so they sent him home. When he retired, he'd spent 35 years on the payroll without working.
https://www.cracked.com/article_29522_55-swindlers-whose-schemes-fooled-world.html