People who work in an office will know that it can make your working life so much more bearable if you like your . Many of us will spend more time at work than with their friends and family, so it's crucial to at least find them tolerable.
Even so, being annoying isn't a crime, so you'd think that there isn't much that can be done if you don't like your colleague.
But it turns out there was a case where a woman was fired for being annoying – because her colleagues threatened to quit if she was kept in the business.
HR and Employment Law expert Judith Fiddler shared the case with her 19.5k followers, and it has now been seen by more than 856.5k people.
Judith, who works with employers and employees with their HR and employment law issues, spoke about a case she had been working on where a woman had been "sacked for being annoying".
In the video, which was uploaded to her account , she explained: "A HR professional has actually sacked an employee for being annoying."
She explained that three complaints had come in over the past 18 months about a female employee, who had worked there for five years. Judith continued: "The complaints have been things like, she was eating loudly, she was talking incessantly and she had a lack of self awareness".
The employment law expert said that "one or two of the complaints alluded to the fact that they would leave if she was still gonna be there because [she] made their work life experience into intolerable".
The company had then chosen...
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