I know this is secondary, but I couldn’t resist it. Taken from the Guardian:
A deputy headteacher is suing Bristol city council for £1m because it refused to
replace a chair which emitted a “farting” noise every time she sat down,
regularly making her the subject of jokes. Sue Storer, 48, is claiming constructive dismissal and sex discrimination,
after leaving her £48,000-a-year position as deputy head of Bedminster Down
secondary school in Bristol last September.The former art teacher told a tribunal she inherited an old, uncomfortable
chair when she started at the school and asked for it to be replaced. But the
new chair proved equally unsatisfactory. “It was very embarrassing to sit on,”
she said. “I asked for a chair that didn’t give me a dead leg, or make these
very embarrassing farting sounds. It was a regular joke that my chair would make
these farting sounds, and I regularly had to apologise that it wasn’t me, it was
my chair.”
Oh dear, what is the world coming to? There does appear to be more to the story though if you read the rest of the article.
