Uruguaya Sues Boss Because She Doesn't Have Any Work to Do

Mon18Aug2008

Uruguaya Sues Boss Because She Doesn't Have Any Work to Do

11:11 H | Topics: Bizarro - Justice - Labor - Uruguay

Has lawsuit abuse spread to Latin America as well? An Uruguyan woman is suing her employer because she has no work to do. Spain's 20 Minutos reports that a city government worker in Rio Negro, Uruguay, Emilia Colman, spends her entire day doing nothing except "looking at the ceiling" from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Colman claims she's asked her boss to give her work but her pleas have gone unanswered, so she's suing her employer for the equivalent of 25,000 euros for "morale damage". She is also asking for a 3,000 euro per year raise.

While on the surface this might sound silly, it seems that Emilia might have been getting the boot from her employer in a roundabout way. There are many cases where an employer has made working conditions so miserable that the employee has no choice but to leave (remember Milton from Office Space?). And that's what Colman believes is happening here. She's been working for the city since 1999, and 3 years ago they changed her from one area to another. First she lost her office, then she lost her computer. Now she has nothing to do.

Nothing to do without a computer is brutal. As my office worker friends can attest to, having nothing to do at work can be fun. As long as you have the Internet.

Via / 20 Minutos