{"id":44833,"date":"2019-03-26T17:47:46","date_gmt":"2019-03-26T17:47:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/merryjane.com\/a-lawsuit-over-farts-in-the-workplace-just-got-nastier\/"},"modified":"2019-03-26T17:47:46","modified_gmt":"2019-03-26T17:47:46","slug":"a-lawsuit-over-farts-in-the-workplace-just-got-nastier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merryjane.com\/news\/a-lawsuit-over-farts-in-the-workplace-just-got-nastier\/","title":{"rendered":"A Lawsuit Over Farts in the Workplace Just Got Nastier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australian David Hingst appealed his 2017 lawsuit against former employer Construction Engineering over a supervisor\u2019s allegedly-pointed flatulence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would be sitting with my face to the wall and he would come into the room, which was small and had no windows,\u201d Hingst said, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/amp\/world-australia-47702527\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><u><em>BBC<\/em><\/u><\/a>. He claimed the supervisor, Greg Short, would \u201clift his bum and fart\u201d on the worker \u201cfive or six times a day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hingst believed his boss\u2019s crop-dusting campaign was part of a workplace conspiracy to force Hingst into resignation. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.news.com.au\/finance\/work\/at-work\/he-would-fart-five-or-six-times-a-day-melbourne-engineer-appeals-18-million-bullying-decision\/news-story\/a3b953f8df19907933cca6975a75d9bf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><u>suit<\/u><\/a> claimed the farting, along with \u201cbullying phone calls,\u201d caused the plaintiff \u201csevere stress\u201d and \u201cpsychiatric injuries.\u201d &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Construction Engineering and Short both deny the lawsuit\u2019s claims. Short admitted that he suffered from bad gas, but insisted farts in Hingst\u2019s direction only happened \u201conce or twice, maybe\u201d with no \u201cintention of distressing or harassing\u201d his subordinate.<\/p>\n<p>Previously, a court \u2014 unconvinced that either the farting or the phone calls qualified as harassment \u2014 ruled in the employer\u2019s favor. The appeals court will issue its ruling this upcoming Friday.<\/p>\n<p><em>Follow Randy Robinson on <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/randieseljay?lang=en\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><u><em>Twitter<\/em><\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An engineer sued his supervisor for repeatedly farting on him at work, but a court decision says the wind-breaking didn\u2019t constitute harassment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44834,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3036],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>A Lawsuit Over Farts in the Workplace Just Got Nastier - Merry Jane<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/merryjane.com\/news\/a-lawsuit-over-farts-in-the-workplace-just-got-nastier\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"A Lawsuit Over Farts in the Workplace Just Got Nastier - 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