Skiving employee foiled employers for two years using...crisps

An electrician has lost his job after employers discovered that he was using a crisp packet to hide his whereabouts to bunk off work and play hundreds of rounds of golf over the last two years – The Telegraph reports.

Australia’s Fair Work Commission, a workplace tribunal heard that Tom Colella, an Australian worker, blocked his location from his employers by placing his work digital assistant, a GPS device, inside an empty packet of crisps. 

The tribunal heard that the packet was used as a ‘Faraday device’ – an enclosure which can block electromagnetic fields – to stop Colella’s employers knowing his location. 

The cage set-up was named after English scientist Michael Faraday, who in 1836 observed that a continuous covering of conductive material could be used to block electromagnetic fields.