Man Sued Company For Giving Him 'Boring' Job That Drove Him To Depression, Awarded Rs 33L Compensation

Even though we all wish to follow our passions and work on jobs that fulfil us and never let us get bored, most of us continue with our 9-5 jobs that do bore us to death. But at the end of the day, we convince ourselves that this is what will bring food home.

But have you felt so bored of that dull desk job that you actually thought of suing your company for the same reason? Well, a man sure did that and he got compensation out of it.

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A Frenchman named Frederic Desnard, from Paris, was awarded €40,000 (Rs33,58,628) in damages from Interparfums, a French luxury perfume maker in 2020 because his job was so boring that it drove him to depression and forced him to quit.

Desnard mentioned that after losing an important client, he was demoted from his job which led to him being assigned menial tasks at the Paris-based company for four years from 2016.

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The man who used to be devoted towards his job ended up spending his time ¡®running errands for the president¡¯ of Interparfums.

According to Unilad, he claimed that nobody cared about him reaching on time or him doing his job and he felt ashamed and depressed for getting a salary for absolutely nothing. When his mental health deteriorated, which his doctors related to extreme boredom, he was signed off work for six months. He was then made redundant by Interparfum, he told FranceTV.

"I no longer had the energy for anything. I felt guilty and ashamed to earn a salary for nothing. I had the impression I was invisible at the company," he told Le Monde.

Desnard's lawyers mentioned that he went through a condition called 'bore-out' - a state of severe boredom that can lead to depression and illness which is the opposite of a burn-out.

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Mr. Desnard claimed the 'slow descent into hell' made him leave the firm and he blamed his employers for his departure.

However, the perfume company claimed that Mr Desnard failed to make them aware of the 'bore-out' he was suffering.

The tribunal ruled that there was a definite link between the 'deterioration of his health' and the changes in his work. A lower court initially ruled in his favour, and this week the Paris Appeal Court upheld the decision and awarded him 40,000 Euros (?36,000).

This case has surely given us desk job employees a lot of hope.

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