工作无聊怪老板？Bored at work? |佛山英语培训

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抱怨工作无聊？怪老板？一名法国公司员工把自己的公司告上了法庭，原因是他觉得自己的日常工作太无聊

You might have heard of people who consider suing their former employer for having been bullied or made to work overtime without pay. But what about taking your employer to court for having given you work that is too boring?

That's exactly what Frederic Desnard, a 44-year-old Frenchman did. He claimed that his bosses at a prestigious perfume company stripped him of meaningful tasks in his managerial job and gave him duties which were so dull they affected his health.

Desnard told French news agency AFP: "I went into depression, I was ashamed to be paid to do nothing". He went on sick leave for seven months and was fired in 2014. The former employee wanted €360,000 in compensation.

Some people might argue that being bored should almost be part of the job description. Lars Fredrik Svendsen, author of 'A Philosophy of Boredom' and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Bergen, says, "Most of the words for work in various languages tend to tell that it's a really unpleasant phenomenon. The French word travail goes back to the trepalium, it was a word for a torture instrument."

So should employers really care if their staff are bored to death as long as they do their tasks? Svendsen thinks it is in their interest to have a stimulated workforce. The academic says, "Employees who care about what they do tend to do a better job than those who don't.

It will probably be wise for employers to at least facilitate some perception of meaning at work. Let the workers feel that their work is meaningful to them." In any case, Desnard might have been better off finding some meaning in his dull work as his action brought him some notoriety and not much else. A court in France didn't see things the same way he did and ordered Desnard to pay his former employer €1,000 for defamation.

词汇表

employer 雇主

bullied 被欺负

to work overtime 加班

to strip somebody of something 从某人那里夺走、剥夺某物

managerial 管理的，经营上的

dull 枯燥乏味的

depression 忧郁，抑郁

sick leave 病假 fired 被解雇

compensation 赔偿

job description 职务描述，工作职责说明

staff 员工

bored to death 百无聊赖，无聊透了

stimulated 热情高涨的，充满兴趣的

workforce 全体员工

to facilitate 帮助，促进

perception 观念，看法

to be better off 比现状好

notoriety 恶名，名声狼藉

defamation 诽谤，诬蔑

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