Apparently even if you’re a giant militant terrorist organisation you still have to deal with employees chucking sickies, says a report by West Point‘s Combating Terrorism Center.
ISIS is having trouble with fighters getting fake medical certificates to avoid having to go on the frontline, and is warning their doctors they’ll be punished if they’re found doing things on the shonk:
“To the doctor brothers in Wilayat al-Kheir, we remind you that the medical report is tantamount to a witness statement and any doctor whose report we discover to be untrue will be held to account.”
The report doesn’t specify what they’re doing while avoiding combat but it’s pretty safe to assume that, like the rest of us, they’re using the time to watch 12 hours of movies and eat whatever’s in the fridge.
It’s reassuring to know that even if we’re diametrically opposed in a heavily ideological war, we all sometimes pretend to have food poisoning to get out of work.
They’ve also had to cut back perks because of financial troubles they’ve been facing, including cutting the power to members’ houses and making a decree that military vehicles can’t be used for personal use – so, uh, no more taking the tank down to the shops.
Source: Gawker.
Photo: Getty Images / Universal History Archive.
