A woman who works as a witch at the Wookey Hole tourist attraction in Somerset has been caught auditioning on the X Factor television programme on a day when she told her employer that she was ill, reports the the Daily Telegraph website.
Fiona Robertson works as an entertainer at the tourist attraction, having replaced the original successful job applicant who was dismissed from the post.
Robertson went to the X Factor auditions on 21 April 2010, where she sang Defying Gravity from the West End show Wicked and Witchcraft by Frank Sinatra. However, when X Factor previews of the show appeared in the newspapers, her bosses at Wookey Hole recognised her. They checked their records and found that she had taken three days off sick for "flu" from 20 to 22 April. They are now considering disciplinary action.
To make matters worse, it doesn't look like Robertson will have a new career as a singer if she loses her job. The judges apparently weren't impressed with her audition, although Robertson did say "the fact that I was dressed as a witch shocked them a bit" and ''I performed the day before Cheryl Cole was diagnosed with malaria and she certainly didn't have much patience for me".
The XpertHR employment tribunal section has recently reported on a similar case where an amateur model was found to have been fairly dismissed after her employer discovered from her Facebook entry and a YouTube video that she had attended London Fashion Week when she had been on sick leave.
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