Job at NEC Electronics - HR for cubicle postingOur office was in the basement computer room, and people were allowed to post most anything on their cubicle walls. As part of my "consider being vegetarian" belief I had posted this on my cube wall. After a few days I found it on my chair with a yellow sticky from my manager "Susan Kansier." I complied and never posted "activism" type material again. (Scroll down for the rest of the story...)
Some months later my cube was moved to the end the long walkway - the least desirable cube in the office - as shown in the seating chart on the main page. I had done some studying of Feng Shui and decided to put the foil from my lunch outside my cube. My same manager asked me why I had done that. I explained "it is to deflect the negative chi coming down the long walkway." I thought that was the end of the matter. About 10 minutes later I received the email below. Because "creating a hostile environment" is a serious allegation - that this application of Feng Shui was furthermore evidence of "lack of proper business judgement" - this escalated to a meeting in HR where they argued, "religious artifacts are not permitted on cubicle walls," and I unsuccessfully tried to educate these twisted souls that "Feng Shui is not a religion - it is more like architecture, that Feng Shui had probably been applied to the layout of the curved sidewalks and landscaping of the building we are in."
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