A worker is suing his former employer for $590,000 as his job was 'too boring' - forcing him to quit. Frenchman Frederic Desnard, 44, claims that for four years he was expected to carry out "too menial" tasks that were a "descent into hell". At a result he was left "depressed, destroyed and ashamed" and forced to resign.
The employment tribunal case is the first ever legal claim in France for what its media has coined the term 'bore out' - which could be interpreted as being the opposite of 'burn out'.