Either you clean out ALL material of a personal, social, religious or political nature, or you clean out none of it. In every workplace, there is some of this stuff in almost every cubicle or office. But this guy was singled out, which is wrong.
I don't have a problem either way-- clean it all out, or leave it all alone. But, I suspect that the de-personalization involved in cleaning it all out, not to mention the kind of managerial attitude that would demonstrate, would make that a place where no one wanted to work, and no one worked very well. They know that, which is why they didn't choose that course.
Exactly right!
But, I suspect
I suspect so too: all to often, Christians are singled out when it comes to enforcing that policy. But, to be fair, neither the article nor the lawsuit alleges that.
I agree. Most business have facility standards about what cubicles should look like. Ours goes to the details of saying stuff like "you may have 1 personal photo on your desk, nothing on the walls", "nothing of a divisive or offensive nature may be posted, especially on the outside of the cubicle walls, etc.", etc. I can't remember the exact wording, haven't read it for awhile.
Ours here are pretty strict but the IT dept (where I work) is usually left alone simply because there's simply not enough storage so all the manuals etc. have to go on your desktop and we all have charts and database diagrams etc all over the walls. And since our area looks like a tornado went through it you generally don't notice the Dilbert cartoons posted in the midst of the sea of tech stuff ;) .
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