Personality quizzes have been a thing for a while now and is a method used to evaluate someone’s personality which is usually grouped into: listener, mediator, thinker, defender, campaigner, or energizer. A new Paradox.ai personality test has gone viral recently because of its long and bizarre scenarios it interactively places job candidates in as a [...]
All things new in tech come with their upsides and downsides. Artificial intelligence, the new buzzword to be fitted to every car, gadget, and coffee mug in the not too distant future has been in the news this month for less than ideal reasons. Ashley Beauchamp experienced an interesting interaction with DPD, the parcel delivery [...]
As I am sure you will all of heard about, or possibly watched live, a BBC presenter caught holding up her middle finger to the camera earlier this month. The moment was reported widely as many BBC viewers were greeted to the news by Maryam Moshiri flipping them the bird right before the news started. In the [...]
Citibank was taken to an employment tribunal for unfair dismissal after sacking an employee for gross misconduct. The claimant was a financial analyst specialising in financial crime. He’d submitted expenses for a business trip claiming he had eaten two sandwiches, two pasta dishes and drank two coffees. When queried whether he had consumed this all [...]
A tv show involving creative prankster, Oobah Butler, showed him taking on Amazon by going undercover at one of their warehouses, creating a fake drink that reached one of their best sellers and getting his two-year-old niece to order age verified products using Alexa. Whilst undercover, he discovered poor working conditions that included a lack [...]
This month we saw Pret-a-Manger fined £800,000 after leaving a cafe worker locked in their walk-in freezer! On 29 July, a member of staff became trapped in a commercial freezer which had a running temperature of 18 degrees below zero, while only dressed in jeans and a t-shirt. After moving around trying to keep warm [...]
In this month's lighter side of the news we look at a recent claim wherein a male nurse, Mr Marsh, won a sex discrimination claim against the NHS. Being the only male within his health visitor team, he was routinely the butt of jokes by the female staff, including from his boss Ms Sanchez! When [...]
I bring you tales of a crime most foul. Selling counterfeit goods is taken very seriously by authorities, as it can lead to members of the public with no food or hygiene knowledge producing hazardous materials sold under the guide of a legitimate product. This is not one of those times. Two men were arrested [...]
This month an ASDA worker has won a sex discrimination case after a colleague kneed him in the bum! Choon Seng Goh argued that he felt humiliated after an unprovoked kneeing, the second in the assaults he had suffered. Having waved off the first incident of being kicked in the same area as being slightly [...]
We saw a very strained claim for sexual harassment reach the news this month. Let's say, as an example, you had a boss named Alex Goulandris. At the bottom of a work document, you see the letters 'AJG'. What would you believe those letters to represent? Whatever you are thinking right now - you are [...]
A B&Q worker has been banned from every one of their stores after an expletive ridden outburst over the announcement system just after being dismissed. Recording this interaction on social media, the voice echoing across the store said: ‘this is a customer announcement. I just got sacked and B&Q are c***s. F**k everyone. Have a [...]
We end this newsletter with a recent employment matter that made its way into the news, an NHS Scientist has successfully argued discrimination following her name being changed to ‘PainInArse’ on a work spreadsheet. Along with having the contents of a ‘fluid sample’ thrown at her and her colleagues, this was unsurprisingly not the best [...]
We end the newsletter with another tale of scandalous and outrageous employment practices that find their way into the red tabs. This month saw a Police Department in Tennessee dismiss 20% of its officers after they were found to have engaged in sexual activity whilst on duty, including in the police station! The sordid details [...]
As always we cap off with a case involving the absurd or bizarre. This month we bring news of a French case that has a connection to those of us who decline to attend the Christmas party or other after hours events. In T v Cubik Partners, T was dismissed for being professionally insufficient after [...]
