Hubby's friend tells the tale that years ago at the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries & Food (now DEFRA), they wanted rid of a lazy unliked employee who let his colleagues do most of the work. He refused to leave. Then came news that employees could apply for big redundancy pay-outs and he reckoned he'd take the pay-out, a "reward" that everyone felt would be unfair.
In those days, being a government department, in theory at least you could be transferred anywhere in the government machine.
On return from a holiday, the employee found he'd been transferred to Ulan Baator, the capital of Mongolia, effective almost immediately. He finally got the hint and resigned, though that might've been helped because colleagues had moved his desk to outside the Gents.
