Anyone know what this symbol means?

Looks like it's from a show called Yellowjackets.

https://yellowjackets.fandom.com/wiki/Symbol

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.
- 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.
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
- And they kick you off the force if you are too smart.
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.
Well, I'm hot-blooded, check it and see I've got a fever of a hundred and three Come on, baby, do you do more than dance?
- Carl, you are striped with radiation.

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.
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

That's being kind. 🥲
- It could have been really good though
Damn, thank you! I've been curious about this show for ages and it's good to get some indication as to where to start and stop. Anyone else want to chime in with opinions on this? I'd love to hear thoughts on it before I spend any time watching
- Christina Ricci.
- I'll step in with a dif perspective. I enjoyed all seasons so far. Shit does get wild and there are Def some out of pocket decisions that were made that makes the show a bit campy at times, but I'm down for it and enjoyed the journey. I can see where the "only first season is good" crowd is coming from, but I don't regret sticking with it. Carbon monoxide is a bitch.
- I thoroughly enjoyed the first season. Part of the fun was the mystery, which is why I don't think the second season was as good. The show tried too hard to explain and it got a little bit too mired down in its own metaphysics for my taste.
  I'm not sure I'll watch any more of it.
No one has replied that you're wrong so have an upvote!

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

lol reminds me of one of these from the ars goetia

Or Hobo Code:
https://www.openculture.com/2018/08/hobo-code-introduction-hieroglyphic-language-early-1900s-train-hoppers.html
- Imagine thinking that someone wrote "don't give up" when they meant to write "hobos arrested on sight".
- Unicode addition when?
- Hobo code was my first thought too, but doesn't seem to match any.
- 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.
WTF did I just read.

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.

Lol I thought it was some SCP stuff before I read comments.

I thought it's from Harry Potter, these three artifacts from the latter books.
- Triangle
  Circle
  Line
  In retrospect even the ultimate macguffins were really simplistic in those books.

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
- hanging up one paper sheet somewhere is not considered informing your personnell in a legal way, they could always argue to have never seen this paper
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

Yup, here it is:

No dancing fairies with boots.

That's the schematic symbol for an interocetor.

Use only genuine interocetor parts.
- Are you boys making an interocetor up there??

Looks like it was some sort of anti-free mason symbol

At least it's not the deathly hallows.

I legit thought this was a Wagner poster until I read the comments.

I am still pretty sure it is!

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 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.

Something tells me the person who drew the symbols also posted the HR notice.