We have to have a new group for this kind of Netflix activity. Robert De Niro’s organization has filed a $6 million lawsuit from a former worker who purportedly binged Netflix while on the clock, Variety reports.

Canal Productions, the actor’s personal loan-out business, alleges that – in addition to binging – Chase Robinson also set exorbitant cafe and lodge rates on the firm’s tab, and applied a lot of De Niro’s repeated flyer factors for particular trips.

Robinson bought her foot in as an assistant to De Niro in 2008, but was later on promoted to “vice president of output and finance” at the mortgage-out business – a situation which would’ve gained her a salary of $300,000 in 2019, according to the lawsuit which was filed in state court docket in New York on Saturday. She still left the company in April, pursuing growing concerns of “company sabotage.”

But according to Canal Output lawyers, Robinson was rarely accomplishing any do the job. She almost never at any time bothered to exhibit up at the place of work, and spent “astronomical amounts of time” observing displays on Netflix during do the job hrs.

The lawsuit statements that throughout a four-day time period in January, the previous staff binged by way of 55 episodes of Buddies. Horrible style in television apart, all those are really reliable figures right there.

The funniest little bit? On one particular of these days, Robinson purportedly requested lunch from Caviar San Francisco and had meal at Paola’s Cafe, charging the two meals on the business credit score card.

Certainly, the binge-seeing staff racked up $12,696.65 in unauthorized fees at Paola’s over a two-yr interval she also expended another $8,923.20 at Dean and Deluca, and Complete Foodstuff. That is excluding a massive $32,000 in fares for Ubers and taxis. Harmless to say, she realized how to stay lavishly.

That was not the only time Robinson experienced watched Netflix on company hours, by the way.

All through another four-day interval in March, she went via yet another streaming marathon, viewing 20 episodes of Arrested Growth (which reveals enhancement in her choice conditions in comparison to Friends) and 10 episodes of Schitt’s Creek (which I haven’t seen, but I’m keen to guess is better than Pals).

In circumstance it crossed your brain: no, Robinson wasn’t compensated to look at exhibits.

“Watching demonstrates on Netflix was not in any way part of or relevant to the obligations and duties of Robinson’s work and, on information and facts and perception, was accomplished for her particular leisure, amusement and satisfaction at times when she was currently being compensated to operate,” the lawsuit argues.

Prior to her departure from Canal Productions, Robinson downplayed accusations of binging Netflix on the clock as “ridiculous.” She also drafted a advice letter for herself, which De Niro purportedly refused to indicator. You have got to give it to her, which is a baller go.

As far as that new classification for Netflix activity goes – I propose Netflix and Grill. Ya dig?