A self-proclaimed 'psychological' was discharged from his IT job after he told a new female colleague whom he knew they 'cross' because he had seen her in 'pregnancy' in his dreams heard a tribunal.
Elrich Daudet left Vanessa de Souza and felt 'very uncomfortable' when he told her that she appeared in his sleep for 12 months before they met and the 'alarmed' woman to tell that she 'chased him'.
He wrote that he was “imprisoned by the essence of her scent,” and said in one “prophetic dream” she threw herself at him.
The senior computer analyst was dismissed from the technical service provider Computacenter for the harassment of his younger colleague, but tried to sue for discrimination and unfair dismissal.
But an employment tribunal in Croydon, Zuid-London, ruled that his so-called 'psychological skills' not' do not count as a 'protected religious or philosophical faith' under British labor law.
However, because he was a child, he believes that he is gifted with the ability to see the future in his dreams and that his dreams and pregnancy 'always come true'.
He told the tribunal that his' protected faith 'is a strong belief in precognitive/premonious/prophetic dreams and conscious and, accordingly, that certain dreams and feeling predict or predict the future'.
A message exchange between Elrich Daudet and Vanessa de Souza
The senior computer analyst was dismissed from the technical service provider Computacenter for the harassment of his younger colleague, but tried to sue for discrimination and unfair dismissal (file image)
Mr. Daudet gave the tribunal examples of his dreams, including one where he told a woman not to jump over a channel, only for her to ignore his advice and break her leg, and another where he saw that he was a report Would leave and go to another in his working life '.
Mr Daudet claimed that he has two types of dreams – 'warning dreams' in which someone is confronted with danger and 'social dreams' about relationships with people – and felt compelled to tell people about warning dreams when they were in danger.
The tribunal that heard at the beginning of 2021 began to dream Daudet about a mysterious stranger who “would help with things he struggled with such as poem and writing songs,” said a tribunal report.
It added that he understood that he “would cross the paths with her, and she would be the passport for the things he hoped to achieve.”
In October 2021 he had a dream about a woman with whom he would cross paths who called himself Vanessa, and Mr. Daudet spoke about her with his deceased sister, it was heard.
Almost a year later, in August 2022, Mrs. De Souza joined Computacenter and just over a week later he still had a dream in which he saw his new colleague. She told him that she “was the one you dreamed about” and asked him to invite her for dinner, heard the tribunal.
The report said that Mr Daudet concluded that Mrs. De Souza was the person he had dreamed of.
In October he decided to send Mrs. De Souza to inquire that 'I found out that we are going to cross the way and have forgot it … Now you pursue me in my dreams, tell me, Elrich, why are you just stare at Your screen and don't you talk to me? '
Bosses in ComputaCenter thought it seemed 'sexual, obsessive' and were concerned that Mr. Daudet thought they should be together
An employment tribunal in Croydon, South London, ruled that his so-called 'psychological skills' not' not as a 'protected religious or philosophical belief' count under British labor law (file image)
Weeks later Mr Daudet woke the conversation again and said that he “had written six pages to summarize how this all started last year” and told her “Nobody is as beautiful as you.”
Mr Daudet denied trying to make progress with Mrs. De Souza, whom he was 'not sexually attracted'.
Mrs. De Souza said to a colleague 'Elrich puts my head in' and said that she was 'alerted' and 'very shocked'.
She felt 'Jumpy when she received phone calls from unknown songs' and 'in panic' by the idea of ​​working with him, the tribunal heard.
Bosses in Computacenter thought it seemed 'sexual, obsessive' and were concerned that Mr. Daudet thought they should be together.
Mr Daudet was fired at the company in December 2022 after 14 years.
Employment judge Fiona McLaren rejected Mr Daudet's claims on unfair dismissal, race discrimination, religion or discrimination and intimidation and said that he was “not a credible witness.”
She added: the reason for dismissal was the offensive way he had written to the colleague.
'It created a hostile and intimidating environment for a younger female colleague.
“(Mr Daudet) had no coercion to send those e -mails, it was not part of his own faith system and in any case his conviction is not protected (according to British labor law).”
