Man sues for $1.3 million over boss’s ‘stinky’ farts
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Can regular farting equal bullying?
An appeals court in Australia will have to decide based on a nearly $1.3 million lawsuit filed in 2017 by the former employee of a construction company, who refers to his ex-boss as “Mr. Stinky.”
David Hingst, a 56-year-old former engineer of Melbourne’s Construction Engineering, says supervisor Greg Short would enter Hingst’s small, windowless office to fart “five or six times a day” as part of a larger conspiracy to terminate his employment, the Washington Post reports.
Before Hingst was eventually laid off, “I would be sitting with my face to the wall and he would come into the room … fart behind me and walk away,” the engineer says, per News.com.au , adding he eventually sprayed deodorant at his superior.
“I may have done it once or twice, maybe … but I can’t recall,” Short told the Supreme Court of Victoria last year.
He said if he had farted on or near Hingst, it was not with bad intentions, per the New York Daily News . The court also heard of alleged phone calls in which Short called Hingst “an idiot,” per the BBC , but ultimately Justice Rita Zammit dismissed the suit last April, noting there was “some inappropriate behavior in the office, including passing wind,” but that it “would not necessarily amount to bullying.”
Hingst appealed, and the Court of Appeal heard his claims of harassment, psychiatric trauma, and “severe stress” on Monday. “[Short] thrusted his bum at me while he’s at work,” he told the judges, per News.com.au. A ruling is expected Friday. (This lawsuit claimed a US man was fired for farting too much .)
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Anyone who can fart that many times a day needs a doctor.
My mother, she is 87, always tries to blame her dog.
If I wanted to run into someone's office and fart, I don't think I could hold it till I got there.
A young man gets invited over to his new girlfriends family's house for dinner one night and within a few minutes of sitting down realizes he has some serious gas. After already excusing himself twice to go to the bathroom, the young man feels the pressure build again, but this time notices the family dog has wandered over and sat beneath his chair. Taking a risk, he carefully releases the pressure, which while fairly quiet, is a real paint peeler. Upon smelling the foul stench the father at the other end of the table says "Rover! Get out of here! Go on, out with you!". The young man sighs with relief as the dog takes the blame and sulks out of the room. A little while later, the dog returns, and so does the gas pressure. Once again, the young man lets loose with the dog beneath him, and once again the father yells "Rover! Get out of here! Go on, out with you!". Just as dinner is wrapping up, once again the pressure returns as does the dog, and the young man let's it really go this time, a low earthquake-like rumble coming from beneath his chair, to which the father shouts "Rover! Get out from under there before that kid shits on you!"...
There was an old saying with the elders in my family. When someone farted they said he/she dropped their watch. I always thought they meant their time piece but maybe not, lol.
I knew a young Mexican who referred to farting as "a knocking at the back door".
A friend I had in college blamed "barking spiders" when a fart escaped.
OMG...I have to tell this story.
I was a payroll specialist for a Govt Contractor. As I was doing my payrolls...I hear farting. Mentally I tell myself I didn't really hear that...and then more farting. Hmmm...maybe it's the old guy two offices away. More farting. "Who's doing that??!! Knock it off!!!" I yelled. Silence. Nobody owns up to farting. I hear it again later and yell, "How RUDE!"
Later in the day my boss tells me the owners do that all the time. A different culture...and no, I won't say which culture.
Italians?
Farting is not cultural. Burping is. You've been had, LOL!
https://web.archive.org/web/20131030104813/
This culture doesn't 'excuse' anything the body naturally produces. There is absolutely no embarrassment, nor apology, when they fart in your presence.
I would much prefer a burp over a fart...any day!
"Man sues for $1.3 million over boss’s ‘stinky’ farts"
Like Judge Judy tells "Grieving Renters" that sue after still living in the place for years:
How long did you "Stay" there ? Why didn't you just "MOVE" if you didn't like it.
MOVE !