While the case above highlights a rare example of a worker being singled out for not getting involved with colleagues, a similar situation recently saw a man win a legal case against his former employer after being sacked for not taking part in his company’s team building activities, a victory being dubbed the 'legal right to be boring'.Ĭonsulting firm Cubik Partners dismissed the worker for being “insufficient professionally”, mainly because he didn’t get involved during company outings, which consisted of partying and drinking, and outside of working hours.Ĭourt papers from an employment hearing, which took place in France, found that the events involved “excessive alcoholism encouraged by colleagues who made available very large quantities of alcohol, and practices pushed by colleagues involving promiscuity, bullying and incitement to various excesses". She also reported multiple issues related to her being silent instead of vocal on the job, issues which Covington claims eventually led to her being fired. She went on to say that, throughout the training process, she had issues related to being an introvert, one example being when a co-worker complained that she wasn’t asking enough questions - to which she responded her job, of "chopping fruits and vegetables" was a simple one that didn't require much of a learning curve. She explained: “I like to give people that notice because people just think that I’m being rude, and I don’t got time for that." Key moments from the videos include claims that Covington told her interviewer she was “a reserved type of person” and that it might take her “a while to warm up to everybody.” In a series of two videos, Tesia Covington explained in detail her experience of the onboarding process at a restaurant chain in the US. A TikTok user claims she was sacked from her job for 'not asking enough questions’ and displaying introversive traits.
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