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Beverley Lancaster, 44, retired from her clerk job at the City Council in Birmingham, England, because of job stress. What was so stressful? She was promoted against her will, she says. A sympathetic industrial tribunal has awarded her 67,000 pounds (US$105,600) in compensation. “My employers should have listened to me but I was treated like a number, not a human being,” she complained. (Reuters) ...“But 67,000 is a number I can live with,” she said afterward.