Woman Who Sued Company for Not Giving Her a Farewell Card Finds Out They Did Buy a Card But Almost No One Signed It
Woman Who Sued Company for Not Giving Her a Farewell Card Finds Out They Did Buy a Card But Almost No One Signed It
A British woman who sued a former employer for neglecting to give her a farewell card lost her lawsuit when it was revealed her colleagues had bought her a card, but no one signed it.
i wonder why nobody signed the farewell card for the type of ass to sue for not getting a farewell card.
What's the opposite of eating the onion? I read your comment and scoffed, wondering who could actually believe this. The I saw the "Not" in the comm name.
You're getting played by this misleading article. There is no evidence that anyone didn't sign the card because they didn't like her. If you follow the link to the actual article, there were two other people who didn't get cards either for the same reason. It's not in that articles, but I read elsewhere that because this happened during COVID it was just difficult to get people to sign them.
The woman sounds like a dope, but most people are kind and would sign the card anyway. Most people aren't looking to get petty revenge against people they don't even know that well.
Except unlike those others, this woman sued (for a bunch of things, not just the card thing), and the judge dismissed all of them saying she displayed a victim mentality over normal office interactions. I'm not faulting people for assuming she's not very likable.
Why is a farewell card a binding legal obligation in the first place? Where are the manners police to whom we can appeal when our brittle feelings have been transgressed?
You can sue for anything. I can sue you for trespassing in my home because your message is in it right now. Suing someone doesn't mean you're right or that you even have grounds to sue.
You could always read the article and find out
The judge added that Conaghan exhibited a "conspiracy-theory mentality" and misinterpreted "normal workplace interactions" as harassment. The example offered was when Conaghan wrote "whiz" in a coworker's card then claimed another colleague was copying her when they used "whizz" in a different card.
The Guardian reported she also complained after a coworker asked, "Are you taking the piss, Karen?," a popular British term meaning making fun of someone, after she claimed she was doing "all the hard work."
What a lovely person
“Are you taking the piss, Karen?,” a popular British term meaning making fun of someone, after she claimed she was doing “all the hard work.”
In my experience, the people who complain about being the only ones doing all the hard work are the ones doing more complaining than actual working.
-
One would spend several hours almost daily chitchatting at other people's desks about how they are the hardest worker and things can only get done if they do it, they're the first in, last out, etc. But spends half their day complaining instead of working.
-
Another is a serial whiner who says no one else ever does anything, they have to do it all in order to get it done, yet they always have some excuse why they don't have to come in that day, or have to leave early, take a longer lunch, and spends a good chunk of their day gossiping.
-
Can we please call mental problems what they are?
Being an asshole is a mental problem in the literal sense. If you mean the thing more commonly known as a "mental problem", then no, we can't because we don't have access to her diagnosis.
You know why "retard" is offensive nowadays, even though it literally means "slow" which is a pretty nice word to use? Because people overused it to mean whatever they wanted and, unsurprisingly, people stopped liking it. Don't do the same for "mental problems".
Karen Conaghan sued the…
Ah, there it is
Wow, she is so Karen that her parents even named her that decades ago in the past - that's some dedicated Karening right there! (/s:-D)
They're Brits too, guaran-fuckin-teed they called her Cuntyhan behind her back
nominative determinism
Emotional damage.
Wow I heard this one out loud hahaha thank you
same
Karen Conaghan
Could we be looking that the origin story of Karen?
This feels more like an evolution
Clearly sounds like undiagnosed mental illness. I hope that lady gets some help.
[off topic?]
My boss's boss was named "Johnson." One day, I accidentally referred to him as "Jackson." None of the people I was talking to corrected me. I decided to try a little experiment and kept on using the wrong name. I used the wrong name dozens and dozens of times and never got called out.
Not her name literally being Karen though
I hope she decided to sue when she ran into one of her former colleagues at the shop who was like "oh yeah Karen, I've got no idea why you didn't receive a card. They're probably harassing you" while trying to exit the conversation as quickly as possible.
say what you want about America and its ridiculous lawsuit happiness... but I've never seen anyone in America sue over a farewell card they didnt get, presumably because they're the kind of selfinvolved asshole that sues over not getting a goddamn card
I wonder why
Based company it seems.
Who's the actress on the right in that image? She looks familiar? Katy Perry?
It is Katy Perry's little known twin sister, Paty Kerry. Some people have given her the nick name of Emily Blunt, but that's not her real name.
Imagine if they had text under pictures that described them.
Trying very hard to imagine that
She's that lady who married the Unabomber from The Office
According to the caption under the picture, it's Emily Blunt..
Man this story sure gets a lot of traction. Some would say that a story that's been posted so often and an article that's 5 days old probably should be deleted.
Yeah I see this fairly often on lemmy, the same stories going round again and again for a week or so.
Usually at least it's different communities though, there's another one of these just a few spots down.
Not familiar at all with UK law, but would it have been within the judge’s power to order a psychometric evaluation and you know possibly like a weeklong hospital stay with continued weekly visits to a psychiatrist?
It usually doesn't yield any good results to force a person to visit a psychiatrist.
Unless, of course, they are having a psychosis and need to be medicated right now.
I was kind of leaning in that direction. This woman is clearly divorced from reality to an unhealthy degree.
