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:
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.
Do you know who put the signs up?
It's a little too on the nose for the show the symbol is from.
Like, I'd believe a fan of the show made the sign, than a fan was randomly drawing the symbol and then someone made a not reacting the same way the characters in the show do.
I have no idea. I work in a large department and I don't know who 3/4 of my coworkers are. I've never even seen the symbols in person, this was the first time I was made aware of them.
Never watched the show but it looks to be pretty obviously based on alchemical symbols, style-wise.
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.
Yellowjackets has broken containment?
“Stop putting this symbol everywhere”
Proceeds to put posters with the three of the symbols on it everywhere
That's the schematic symbol for an interocetor.
Use only genuine interocetor parts.
lol reminds me of one of these from the ars goetia
Unicode addition when?
It makes me wonder the origin of the 2/10 symbol for thieves is.
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.
They have a lot of circuit patterns in 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.
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!
Over a nonsense symbol?! People are just pathetic sometimes.
Sigils are usually custom made and it's pretty much impossible to figure out wtf it means by looking at it
my first thought was that this was a social science experiment lol
looks like someone is going through a power trip flair up over not being able to catch a benign prankster
No dancing fairies with boots.
If you were actually "escalated to HR" for this and terminated, wouldn't you have a pretty strong wrongful termination case?
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
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
Looks like it was some sort of anti-free mason symbol
Lol I thought it was some SCP stuff before I read comments.
Looks like a hodgepodge of hobo code.
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