{"id":2558,"date":"2025-05-08T11:03:31","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T11:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/08\/woman-awarded-almost-30k-after-being-compared-to-darth-vader\/"},"modified":"2025-05-08T11:03:32","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T11:03:32","slug":"woman-awarded-almost-30k-after-being-compared-to-darth-vader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/08\/woman-awarded-almost-30k-after-being-compared-to-darth-vader\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman awarded almost \u00a330k after being compared to Darth Vader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2025-05-08 11:03:31<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>An NHS worker has been awarded almost \u00a330,000 in compensation after a colleague compared her to Darth Vader in a &#8216;Star Wars&#8217;-themed psychological test.<BR><br \/>\nA tribunal in Croydon, South London heard that Lorna Rooke, a blood donation staff member, found the judgement from her colleague Amanda Harber of falling into the category of being the black-clothed, villainous key leader within the Galactic Empire in the team-building activity to be &#8220;upsetting&#8221; and &#8220;insulting&#8221;.<BR><br \/>\nHowever, the NHS Blood and Transplant Service test regarded &#8220;Vaders&#8221; as someone who is &#8220;very focused&#8221; and forges successful working teams.<BR><br \/>\nThe judge ruled that Lorna&#8217;s case was detrimental because Amanda&#8217;s &#8220;perception&#8221; of her was similar to the iconic baddie, which was shared with their other colleagues.<BR><br \/>\nAs a result, Lorna &#8211; who felt &#8220;unpopular&#8221; after being compared to Darth Vader, and cited it as one of the reasons why she quit her job a month later &#8211; won \u00a328,989.61 in compensation.<BR><br \/>\nLorna also accused her workplace of unfair dismissal, but the judge threw the claim out.<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Visit Bang Bizarre (main website) <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/xtbac.js\" data-video=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2025-05-08 11:03:31 An NHS worker has been awarded almost \u00a330,000 in compensation after a colleague compared her to Darth Vader in a &#8216;Star Wars&#8217;-themed psychological test. A tribunal in Croydon,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2559,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bizarre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2558"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2560,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2558\/revisions\/2560"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}