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.
Are you boys making an interocetor up there??
NO
It’s a long par 9 to our nation’s capital.
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.
That post from HR is almost asking for more trouble. There would no more work being done because now everyone would be busy trying to figure out what that symbol meant, as well as copy-cats doing the same symbol elsewhere in the company.
It looks like something that would happen in twin peaks, except the symbol would be cursed.
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 everywhereAn interesting version of the Streisand Effect.
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.
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.
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.
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
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?
Imagine thinking that someone wrote “don’t give up” when they meant to write “hobos arrested on sight”.
This is Dark Souls all over again… Though I wouldn’t mind a game using these (or similar) icons instead of messages in text form.
It makes me wonder the origin of the 2/10 symbol for thieves is.
Keep your 2 eyes on everyone’s 10 fingers
Hobo code was my first thought too, but doesn’t seem to match any.
Might be a combo and hobo code was also regional, this is just a sample.
The “hook” on the YellowJackets symbol appears to be “Stop” from the top panel, left column, 4th one down.
They have a lot of circuit patterns in there.
WTF did I just read.
I’m generally highly suspicious of any picture of a piece of paper with writing on it posted on social media.
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!
Came here to say this too
