Feb 20 2008
Woman loses job over flatulence
[BBC]
A university employee who claimed she had been continually taunted because of her chronic flatulence has lost a discrimination claim at a tribunal. The unnamed woman told an employment tribunal in Leeds that staff at the city’s
The woman said she suffered from severe irritable bowel syndrome.
Her claims of disability and racial discrimination and constructive dismissal were rejected by the panel.
The tribunal heard one of the woman’s colleagues had said the office window had to be opened because of the smell and “we shouldn’t have to put up with it”.
A colleague at Leeds Metropolitan University said of her: “She stinks the place out.”
[From me]
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Boy, if you can lose your job over gas, most of the pastors I know would be unemployed immediately!
If I ever stop laughing, I may try to comment.
This stinks!