Man Wins Legal Right To Be 'Boring' At Work After Being Fired For Not Being 'Fun' Enough
In 2015, Mr. T's employer terminated him for "professional inadequacy" due to his refusal to participate in activities like after-work drinks and activities to foster teamwork.
A Frenchman has been granted the "right to be boring" on the job after a judge determined that his former employer was wrong to fire him for failing to attend after-work happy hours with his coworkers regularly.
The man was said to be a senior counsel at the Parisian consulting firm Cubik Partners. He went by the name 'Mr. T'.
Mr. T did not agree with the management consultancy organization's idea of fun, which included going out for drinks once a week.
The group claims to utilize a "fun" approach to establishing teams, but Mr. T did not find this pleasurable.
In 2015, Mr. T's employer terminated him for "professional inadequacy" due to his refusal to participate in activities like after-work drinks and activities to foster teamwork.
The company also said he was boring, hard to work with, and bad at listening.
Mr. T said in his case that he had the right to "critical behavior" and to "refuse company policy based on incitement to partake in various excesses." He also disagreed with the company's definition of "fun."
The Court of Cassation in Paris reached the same conclusion. In the legal proceeding that lasted for seven years, Mr. T's former employers were ordered to pay him the sum of ?2,574 (or Rs 2.5 lakh) by the court.
In its ruling earlier this month, the court said everyone could not be made to "forcibly participate in seminars and end-of-week drinks, frequently ending up in excessive alcohol intake, encouraged by associates who made very large quantities of alcohol available."
The court added that the company¡¯s emphasis on social events and "fun" infringed on the employee¡¯s "fundamental right to dignity and respect of private life."
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