This was posted under the punch clock at work. I assume it's some kind of occult symbol but that's just a guess. Anyone know what it is or what it means?
This is 100% the sigil from Yellow Jackets.
I only watched season 2 the one time when it was new so I might be misremembering, but iirc we don't actually know what it means or what its origins are yet. It currently represents survival and, in some ways, a return to a simpler, harder kind of life. The inevitability of fate, even.
The management is probably upset about it because of its association with brutality and cannibalism. Even if the odds are like 99-1 that it's just folks being fans of a show, I can def see how it might make some others a bit uncomfortable to find it getting tagged in this setting.
Edit: some words
Yup, here it is:
That's the schematic symbol for an interocetor.
Use only genuine interocetor parts.
Yellowjackets has broken containment?
Sigils are usually custom made and it's pretty much impossible to figure out wtf it means by looking at it
Looks like a hodgepodge of hobo code.
my first thought was that this was a social science experiment lol
“Stop putting this symbol everywhere”
Proceeds to put posters with the three of the symbols on it everywhere
Something tells me the person who drew the symbols also posted the HR notice.
Over a nonsense symbol?! People are just pathetic sometimes.
Looks like it's from a show called Yellowjackets.
You beat me to it, just from a TV show.
But I bet Nancy in HR thinks it's satanic and is reacting as such.
Honestly, this tracks with where I work. I thought it was something cooler.
Sad reality is that this is probably the coolest likely outcome. Coin toss between regular graffiti and some nazi shit the rest of the time.
Thanks for the link, here is a quote:
Throughout the Showtime original series Yellowjackets, a strange symbol appears. It resembles an impaled female figure, with a hook coming out of the bottom. As of the end of the program's third season, the symbol's exact significance remains unknown.
So... Management at OP's workplace are just making a fuss over nothing or they were really traumatized by the show? I never watched it
I mean...I didn't watch it either, but I can't picture a workplace where it would be considered acceptable and professional behavior to draw pictures of impaled women all over the place.
The drawings are very abstract.
Because I didn't watch Yellowjackets as already mentioned, I don't know if the drawing is also supposed to represent an impaled female figure at all in the show. The quote says it's unclear, but perhaps the characters at some point establish that's what it represents. If that's the case, I agree with you, yeah it's offensive and inappropriate to draw something that most people know represents impaled women with hooks up their asses.
However, personally, I have to do some intense mental gymnastics to see those scribbles as impaled women with hooks up their asses. To me they look like geometric symbols and without any context I would have thought it was something related to alchemy or astrology. Not murder.
We can only speculate about the meaning to/intent of whoever drew it. The reality is that regardless of intent or personal interpretation, if anyone in the workplace recognizes those images as having that kind of meaning and is made uncomfortable by it, that constitutes workplace harassment, whether it's intentional or not. If the company doesn't take it seriously, they will be liable for legal action. At least in the US - I assume most other English-speaking countries have similar laws. So it's not really an overreaction - they need to protect themselves as much as their employees.
Whether you or I ascribe that meaning to the images or not is immaterial - clearly, someone does. Given that the images have nothing to do with work anyway, the only thing that matters is whether they genuinely bother people.
lol reminds me of one of these from the ars goetia
My first thought was a self-made sigil, it even has a clue as to the creator in it.
But I'm not a narc, so if their HR is watching they can get fucked.
Unicode addition when?
It makes me wonder the origin of the 2/10 symbol for thieves is.
They have a lot of circuit patterns in there.
WTF did I just read.
Looks like something from Gravity Falls
Just finished watching the last episode of Weidmageddon about 30 minutes ago and instantly had the same thought... Obviously that Bill Cipher right there!
Boston Police Department stated in its defense that the ad devices shared some similarities with improvised explosive devices
Anything can look like a bomb if you're stupid
Never forget.
Seriously, that might have been the best guerilla marketing campaign ever. So many people were utterly clueless (and needlessly terrified), but fans of the show knew immediately what they were.
No dancing fairies with boots.
Looks like it was some sort of anti-free mason symbol
If you were actually "escalated to HR" for this and terminated, wouldn't you have a pretty strong wrongful termination case?
In most first world countries? Sure (even though it isn't what it used to be, but it would still be a nicer severance than expected if you're ready to spend a lot of money in legal fee or have an union providing you a lawyer).
But I guess that in the US not thanking your boss for letting you work is a valid reason to get fired
I don't think so. If your boss tells you to cut it out and you don't cut it out, that's firing for cause. You might think it's a first amendment thing, but that only protects you from the government telling you to cut it out
looks like someone is going through a power trip flair up over not being able to catch a benign prankster
Lol I thought it was some SCP stuff before I read comments.
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