I was employed by a major multinational corporation in an upper middle management job of some sort for many years.
There was a time when I was in charge of the entire corporate world headquarters building. After everyone had moved out and I was the only one left.
For an extended period of time, I didn't know who my boss was, or what my job was, if in fact I had one. But I showed up each morning, got a cup of coffee and read the Wall Street Journal from front to back. During all of that time, I continued to get paid.
One day I went home and my wife said "Guess what happened today?"
"I dunno", I replied.
She smiled, and exclaimed "You got a pay raise today." She had seen the amount direct deposited into our bank.
No one from the company ever came to me, and told me about it. When I got the raise was during a time when the corporate payroll system was being converted to new computer software, so I felt maybe my pay raise was due to an error in the conversion. Later, the new system was audited by our external auditors, who informed me no problems were found during their review. So I wiped the sweat from my brow and carried on doing more of the same. Mostly nothing. And I never said anything but good things about my company after that happened. How could I not?
During the latter years of my employment there, I did have a small organization of people reporting to me. But I had had enough and decided to officially retire.
They gave me a going away party at a swanky restaurant. I got a retirement gift, and a card.
I opened the envelope and read the card out loud in front of the gathering.
The front of the card said "Why would a person want to leave a job being paid hundreds of dollars a week?"
Then I opened the card, and read the inside. "For doing absolutely nothing."
Well, they had a point there. But I retired anyway. That was nearly 17 years ago.
And I've been doing pretty much of the same ever since.