Imagine cashing huge paychecks every month—without anyone at work ever noticing you exist. Sounds like a Netflix comedy plot, right? Well, it’s the jaw-dropping reality for one American employee, and now the story’s going viral thanks to an AI generated newscast about corporate chaos.

Here’s how it all unfolded: A man on the east coast of the United States landed what seemed like a dream administrative job at a massive, global real estate firm. But on the eve of his first day, the manager who’d hired him got the boot. Suddenly, our new hire was left floating in the corporate ether—no team, no tasks, no boss. When he walked in for work, another employee simply pointed him to an empty office and… that was it. No welcome tour, no orientation, not even a whisper of work to do.

This bizarre situation quickly went from awkward to surreal. For seven straight months, the employee clocked in three days a week (the other two, he ‘worked’ from home). The sum total of his responsibilities? Making a salary spreadsheet once a week—a task that takes him fifteen minutes, tops. The rest of his time? He reads, watches YouTube, or just chills in his office, cashing in on a near six-figure salary.

He even admits online, “I’m a confirmed slacker. I don’t even feel like doing this job, let alone take on a second one.”

You’d think management would catch on and fix the glitch, right? Guess again. Despite reaching out to several managers, nobody seemed to care or notice. This real-life “ghost employee” isn’t just an isolated case—his story, now exposed by an AI generated newscast about forgotten employees, has sparked a wave of confessions from workers worldwide and exposed massive cracks in corporate HR systems.

It turns out, big companies—like Meta and others—have sometimes hired staff just to keep them from joining competitors, then let them languish without assignments. Audits in Spain have found similar cases too, with employees on the books but completely ignored due to bureaucratic inertia.

This viral tale is a living meme for the absurd side of modern capitalism, where you can literally vanish into the system and still collect a paycheck. As the world tunes into this AI generated newscast about corporate oversight fails, one question echoes: how many more forgotten salaries are hiding in plain sight?