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Frederic, 46, suffered a syndrome of burnout by boredom, more commonly known as "boron-out". Responsible for general services in a company in the luxury sector, he was gradually deprived of any significant task after a financial setback, to the point of sinking into a serious depression. Now on trial with his former employer, he tells Olivier Delacroix, Europe 1, the psychological effects of his setting in the closet.
"When I tried to bring up the subject with my various line managers, they offered me a coffee, and asked me to go and get their children to play golf, because they had nothing to do with me. to lose a very big contract, we were in expectation, everyone was scared, and where you have friends, these mates become your worst enemies, and your family can not understand.
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The inactivity in which Frédéric feels trapped by his company has fed a feeling of guilt increasingly difficult to manage.
[I felt] shame. The shame of being paid to do nothing. The shame of not being able to talk about it to anyone, not even to my colleagues. [...] It's terrible, you do not sleep at night. You wake up in the middle of the night to whine. It's the tears that wake you up. [...] When I came to work, I was running away from my colleagues while I was in charge of general services, so normally I was at their service. We crack, we crack completely.
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The doctor closed my file, and on it he wrote: BORE OUT
It was only after a serious car accident that Frederic was able to put a word on his dismay: the "boron-out"
I discovered it because I had an epileptic seizure while driving. I was transferred, in a coma, to the hospital Bicêtre [Kremlin-Bicêtre, Paris region, ed ]. After coming out of the coma, I was reconvened by the doctor two to three weeks later. I could only cry, I did not know how to speak. I could just show him email exchanges. From time to time, over an hour and a half of appointments, I could make three sentences. He closed my file, and on it he wrote roughly: BORE OUT.
I told him, 'No doctor, you're wrong'. He replied, 'No'. I went out and got in a cab because I was exhausted psychologically and physically. A few days later, I started doing some research. In fact, it means exhaustion through boredom. It's terrible. That's the worst thing. We have only one desire: to commit suicide.
Frédéric is now plunged into a legal battle to have his employer's responsibility recognized in his depression
[Boron-out and burn-out] are Anglicisms that will never be accepted by the courts and are simply summed up by 'professional harassment'. It is in this respect that the company was sentenced. [...]
We appealed on both sides. The current judgment is with provisional execution and the appeal is not suspensive of the conviction. [...] The total amount is 50,000 euros ... It is a company in the world of luxury, which makes about 400 to 500 million turnover per year, only French, knowing that the parent company is United States."
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