ghost employee?
By asliah
@asliah (11137)
Philippines
January 5, 2013 10:35am CST
greetings to all of you guys,do you have an idea about ghost employee in you work or in the company you work?because here in the company where i work,there are many ghost employee and most of them are sales agent,they used many agent code and name approved with their team leader so they earned double or sometimes triple,that is why this company where i work gradually bank craft but they found it and investigated it and terminated all agent who used double agent code and name.do you also have this ghost employee in your work?the company will pay the salary of a ghost employee which is not working in the company.
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13 responses
@stanley777 (9402)
• Philippines
6 Jan 13
No, but we d have a lot of them in our country.. 
Sadly, there are many of them, and they are not even caught yet.. Because people tolerate them or they don't even care. I think it is very much unfair for people who really work hard for their money.. 
Sadly, there are many of them, and they are not even caught yet.. Because people tolerate them or they don't even care. I think it is very much unfair for people who really work hard for their money.. 
@girl_thinking (1959)
• Philippines
6 Jan 13
Hi Stanley, I believe that the management and the business owners will care. I mean, these ghost employees could be the reason for the company's failure.. Those who do not care either get profit from this as well or they simply just don't care thinking that it will not affect them..But in the long run, if the company shuts down, everyone is affected.
@williamjisir (22819)
• China
30 Apr 13
Hello asliah. I am interested to know the term of a ghost employee in English. Now I understand that a ghost employee is someone on the payroll who doesn't actually work for a victim company. Sometimes I hear on the radio about ghost employees in some government offices in our country and they are now discovered. The result is of course that they will be eliminated from the namelist of paycheck. I appreciate your informative discussion very much that I have learned a very useful term today--ghost employee. Thanks a lot.
@dandan07 (1906)
• China
6 Jan 13
Here in my country, ghost employees are usually having a better salary than normal employees, especially those in banks.
Here many works can only be done well if you can have a godfather or having strong social relationship with Big Man. To many ordinary people, they can not have that, so they have to work all the time for their lives, while those born in upper class can own that easily, they can get money from their social network while need to do nothing for it.
@jenny1015 (13366)
• Philippines
23 Jan 13
I think that anyone who knows about this should have it reported. Coz if we tolerate such activities, you would surely be out of work soon coz of the company being bankrupt.
@prashu228 (37526)
• India
23 Jan 13
Hi
Frankly speaking when i saw the post i thought something related to ghosts .haha how silly. Okay now i got it after reading the whole discussion.
Yes i have heard about these kind of ghost employees and their eating up money from the bank .The business and the employees have to suffer because of such people. But good to now that you office management caught them.
@Shavkat (137214)
• Philippines
7 Jan 13
Some people might believe that there are some presences felt in a working place. I never had experience one, but I hope it will not happen. It could be the souls are not at peace yet. They are still roaming around and asking for prayers. It is weird to work with unexpected visitors.
@sonaimajumdar (950)
• India
5 Jan 13
Oh. Thats what a ghost employee means. Haha. I thought something else. Leave it. Actually, yeah I think these kind of employees work with government agencies. They can be anywhere, in police, or any kind of agencies.
@toniganzon (72285)
• Philippines
6 Jan 13
Oh wow, that's really terrible! That company went bankrupt? It's a good thing it didn't close down then.
I know of ghost employees in the public offices. Especially in the local government agencies. It's a pity because people's name exist there and they are paid and yet it goes to the politicians pocket and not to that specific person because no such person exist! And to think it's the people's taxes that pay for that. Oh i hate corruption in the Philippines.
@alberello (4752)
• Italy
5 Jan 13
Well, unfortunately I'm unemployed at the time, and therefore outside of the world of work.
However, I do not know what constitutes, and especially that it is possible that your company pay double, if not triple, to ghost employees.
However, I must admit that when I worked there were consultants, or it was already retired staff, who came to work as a boss, so in addition to their already recognized pension, the company acknowledged the extra salary.
@Jenith (1381)
• Philippines
6 Jan 13
All I know is Sales Agent is earning a lot because of their incentives. Having a double agent code and name has something to do with the HRAD, i guess. Negligence in their part. Well, if this really happens having a double code, I think it's just fine as long as that certain name do his task and reached the quota or else he will be terminated.
I really wonder how this happen. Do they have different ID's? How they log-in?
Ghost employees normally happens in the government for the officials to earn more.
@girl_thinking (1959)
• Philippines
6 Jan 13
Hi asliah! Your HR and Payroll department should be calibrated at all times. This must be hard if your company is a big company and has many branches. But still, the company will lose so much if these ghost employees continue to "exist".
I haven't heard anything from the companies that I worked for having this issue. Hope you will not get affected by this scam. 
@ARIES1973 (11426)
• Legaspi, Philippines
6 Jan 13
This thing happens because we are not doing something about it. Particularly in government agencies, wherein the money use to pay ghost employees are money of the people. We should be vigilant and report if we know something about it.
Have a nice day!
@randomarts09 (1405)
• Indonesia
5 Jan 13
Whoa, this is the first time I ever heard that. But if you think about it, it's possible for company to pay for employee who is not exist actually. Of course it will mean this like some kind of corruption. Will very much put the company in disadvantages. I don't know if my company I ever worked has a ghost employee but if this kind of thing happen, it will mean the human resources department have something to do with this too, in my opinion. Because it's their responsibility to pay attention to the names of employee the company has.
