阅读理解：Bored at work? Sue the boss! 工作无聊怪老板!_大学英语阅读

阅读理解：Bored at work? Sue the boss! 工作无聊怪老板!

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。接下来查字典英语网带你看个究竟。

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词汇: work 工作

You might have heard of people who consider suing their former employer for having beenbullied 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 hismanagerial 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."