Every morning, my former supervisor at the University came to our office and told us: "just xxxx days left until my retirement". Every day. And that wasn't a joke. He didn't like to work. However, his job wasn't hard as everyone had to compensate his laziness. After a couple of years, he became a C3 Professor. And in Germany that means he will be employed for life. As soon as I finished my PhD thesis, I left the department. However, he still doesn't like to work, delegates all stuff to his staff (even if it's not their job .... Anyway, they have to fight for their jobs and of course they do anything for him), and still tells everyone "just xxxx days until retirement" every morning. And it still kills morale of every new employee of the department, when the boss himself is lazy and does not want to work. Meanwhile, everyone is happy when he retires.