A Frenchman is suing his former employers over a job so boring he became a “professional zombie.”
Fredric Desnard started working for perfume company Interparfums in 2006 and earned 80,000 euros ($91,000) a year. But in six years the company laid off most of their staff. The 44-year-old Parisian found himself running the occasional errand, but otherwise doing nothing. He was suffering from a “bore-out,” which Montasser Charni, Desnard’s lawyer, says is the opposite of a burnout. Desnard was fired after a long illness he says was brought on by weariness and guilt from earning such a large salary over doing as little as 40 minutes a day.
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