Actually, it is a woman.
Yes. Care to explain for a culturally illiterate Yank? (who thinks she’d get a good laugh out of it if she understood, because it probably involves a fart joke)
She really will have to come up with better examples of sexism. Maybe the media picked up on this one because of its silliness.
I would love to read her documentation on this one! There were simple solutions to this particular problem. With that large a salary in that particular profession, she should make the adjustments herself.
I apologize. I glanced at Anne Neville’s post without realizing who wrote it, and thought “Mr. Neville” was the teacher.
Ah, CJ. The Donald Trump of the soft ice-cream industry.
“I didn’t get where I am today trusting the easy chairs.”
The BBC’s lowdown on the “Reginald Perrin” TV series:
A sadly-overlooked classic. Leonard Rossiter’s finest work.
Mr. Neville is not a teacher. He also happens to have a desk chair (at home, not at work) that sometimes makes farting noises when he shifts in it. I like to tease him about it, because any opportunity to make a fart joke makes me happy 
Re. £48k - typical for a deputy head in a large-ish secondary school. http://www.teachernet.gov.uk/paysite/part3.cfm should anyone care enough to figure out the small print.
Amongst certain of my friends, we have the tradition that if you can’t repeat the noise, then it must have been you. Even if it was, say, your shoe squeaking, or your belt scraping against a cushion or whatever, if you can’t make the noise again, then you’re a stinky bastard.
So I’m not surprised it was thrown out of court. She should have been grateful that at least she was able to repeat the noise.
(BTW, £48 large??? And all them holidays? Just for throwing a textbook at some snotnoses and saying “read pages 51 to 200” while you do the crossword?* I think I might have to re-train…)
*Joke.
Wow, a million pounds.
Must have been one hell of a chair.
What, people have to have machines to fart now? Cripes, we’re getting soft.
At least I can fart without mechanical aid.
Certainly not! I’ve never seen any evidence of oversensitivity in an educational environment.