location can pay off.
Frédéric Desnard of France became the envy of workers around the world after being awarded $45,000 because he » nothing to do» at his last job.
As reported by France TV, this severance package is likely the first case of «pay for boredom» in French history.
Desnard worked as a manager for the Parisian perfume company Interparfums until 2014. The man claimed that after losing a key client, he was forced to perform the monotonous duties of «shifting papers» for four years, which made him «depressed» and for which he was ashamed.
Desnard's lawyers said in court, that because of such work, he even suffered an epileptic seizure. Due to his deteriorating mental condition, Desnard left his job for six months on sick leave before being fired by a cosmetics company in 2014.
Trying to get compensation for his workplace depression, he filed a lawsuit that ruled that «the oppression of the professional by boredom» had taken place. This state is the opposite of «burnout», when an employee is overworked.
However, lawyers for Interparfums argued that Desnard «never said anything about being bored.»
Despite the fact that that it's like a made-up affliction, «boredom fatigue,» according to psychologists, can lower people's life expectancy by forcing them to seek the «cure for boredom» in junk food, alcohol, drugs, and «risk behavior.»
