Looks like it's from a show called Yellowjackets.
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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?
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.
Yeah, the sign is likely the joke then
Never watched the show but it looks to be pretty obviously based on alchemical symbols, style-wise.
Either that, or by some strange twist of fate is a fan of that show. Either theory sounds easily plausible to me, though.
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.
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Is this Lost
From the one episode I saw - yes.
Im personally very wary of getting invested in it cause I'm afraid it will just keep upping the ante without answering anything, but my friends who have watched it said that it does seem to have a direction and does actual address things.
HR got $5 from showtime to put up flyers advertising their little show
“Stop putting this symbol everywhere”
Proceeds to put posters with the three of the symbols on it everywhere
An interesting version of the Streisand Effect.
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.
Yeah, I remember that! this is very reminiscent of that incident judging from the rest of the comments.
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Before reading the other comments, I would have said that it’s probably a meaningless doodle, but it looks evil to people who are reflexively suspicious of anything unfamiliar.
That note under the punch clock is a hilarious overreaction, and I love it! Management isn’t just feeding the troll; they’re making the troll a full Thanksgiving dinner.
imagine having the mindset that an image has that much power over you. I still remember the Dungeon Masters manual from d&d making adults absolutely furious!
Iron Maiden cover art was pure evil energy
but you heard them actually learn what is behind those images and it's just fuckin make believe nonsense turned up to max
Growing up in Christian Fundie Hell during the height of the Satanic Panic was certainly an experience.
My partner at the time loved Zelda: Wind Waker. They had the poster for it and all, but had blacked out with a sharpie a screenshot on it of one of the dungeons because it was called Temple of the Gods or something.
The 2000s were the height? You're at least a decade off: https://www.aetv.com/real-crime/mcmartin-preschool and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day-care_sex-abuse_hysteria and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satanic_panic
I personally remember my brother being forced to destroy his gold cartridge Ocarina of Time when my mother heard/thought it was pagan witchcraft. She watched him do it and claimed she saw green fire/smoke blaze up from it and claimed that it was the devil that had been inside. So that was the later 90s, I guess.
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Would be hard to resist drawing the symbol on the flyer.
They already did thrice.
That's the symbol from Yellowjackets. If you are curious about the show, only the first season is good
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I'm generally highly suspicious of any picture of a piece of paper with writing on it posted on social media.
lol reminds me of one of these from the ars goetia
Imagine thinking that someone wrote "don't give up" when they meant to write "hobos arrested on sight".
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Unicode addition when?
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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.
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looks like someone is going through a power trip flair up over not being able to catch a benign prankster
Over a nonsense symbol?! People are just pathetic sometimes.
Yellowjackets has broken containment?
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
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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
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
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No dancing fairies with boots.
Looks like it was some sort of anti-free mason symbol
At least it's not the deathly hallows.
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