Un impiegato delle pubbliche relazioni con ADHD licenziato perché “disorganizzato” vince una causa per discriminazione sulla disabilità
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15388247/employee-ADHD-sacked-disorganised-disability-discrimination-case.html
di SomniaStellae
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Why do i get the feeling this article is intentionally written to piss people off. She missed meetings due to starbucks, massages, etc. Well, give us the context, because the article makes it seem like she was entitled and did whatever she wanted. Whilst possible, i highly doubt it. She’d have been bollocked the first time she just wandered off to do whatever.
Try to sack on lack of Merit and got a get out of jail card due to being called “disorganised”.
UK is going mad and the few jobs we have available need to go to people based on Merit. I can not believe what I just read haha.
[Tribunal Documentation to show deliberation process](https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/69381bfde447374889cd8f6b/Ms_Nicole_Hogger_v_Genesis_PR_Ltd_3301581_2024_Reasons.pdf) – warning, PDF file, but it should address issues of the Mail not quite stating things clearly.
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/69381bfde447374889cd8f6b/Ms_Nicole_Hogger_v_Genesis_PR_Ltd_3301581_2024_Reasons.pdf
Like always. The established facts don’t match the Daily Mail narrative.
The company knew of the ADHD, eventually did occupational health assessment. Completely ignored the recommendations and forget that she had ADHD.
It’s shocking how much the media tries to undermine neurodivergence.
When properly supported, such people can do exceptional things. But pretending like it’s convenient self-indulgence and a hoax is disgraceful and is undermining people getting the help they need to thrive.
Many ‘normal’ people who have shit lives may scoff at ADHD/autism and never realise that they have it- and that being informed of it can lead to more effective coping mechanisms.
This wasn’t a cartoon villain employer. Read the judgment and what you mostly see is managers trying to support someone who was struggling, trying to protect clients, trying to keep work moving. Weekly check-ins, workload adjustments, OH referral, phased return, informal conversations. Clumsy at points, inconsistent at others, but recognisably normal management.
And yet the outcome is that feedback becomes harassment, a PIP becomes discrimination, and failing to buy ADHD coaching becomes a breach of the law. That should worry anyone who’s ever had to manage people.
If you talk candidly about how behaviour lands with colleagues, you’re said to undermine dignity by highlighting disability-linked traits. If you don’t talk about it, you failed to support. If you keep things informal, you’re criticised for lacking structure. If you add structure, that escalation itself becomes the detriment.
The employee is treated as too vulnerable to receive blunt feedback, but also fully entitled to reinterpret ordinary management as discriminatory harm. Disclosure becomes asymmetric, the employer must infer needs, fund adjustments, and avoid mentioning disability too explicitly, while being criticised later for not factoring it in enough.
Seems like a crazy judgement to me and we then wonder why the economy is in the doldrums.
I’m dyslexic, I’d be a great librarian. I mean ADHD, disorganised who would have fault .
Even as someone with ADHD who has had a hard time in jobs because of attitudes like these… I still feel sorry for people who fall for this kind of ragebait. It’s so blatant – so obvious – and yet people can’t see past it. Must make life difficult.