Wow, I wish the biggest work related issue i had was bucking the no-photos policy of my OCD boss.
Seriously, is this “going to prove a point” worth even the effort you’ve put into this thread, much less going to a public library, opening up a fake e-mail account, researching an article that supports your view, and sending an e-mail to a group of workers, just to “prove a point”??
You’ve got a job, and part of having a job is the company gets to tell you what to do. This is by far not the most egregious abuse of power I’ve heard of or experienced. Let it go.
You got hired for a job not sold into slavery. There are limits to what your employer can tell you to do. Or at least there should be. The problem is some employers don’t recognize those limits. They think that because they pay you to design widgets they can also tell you what color shirt to wear. Employees need to assert themselves to prevent employers from taking power they shouldn’t have. Otherwise it grows into the bigger work-related problems you mentioned.
Yeah, I know, I’m just saying there is a risk/effort variable that you need to calculate in every circumstance. The original poster wants to fire off an anonymous e-mail just to irk someone, not because he/she thinks it will change anything, but just to make the OP feel better. I 'm questioning whether (a) that it is worth the effort, given all the legwork involved, and (b) it is worth even the taking even the tiniest risk that the boss will figure out who sent it.
Yeah, if my company says I have to listen to Rush Limbaugh for one hour a day in order to keep my job, I’ll have an issue with that. Telling me not to junk up my work area because it looks unprofessional? Not sure that’s over the line. And, in the spirit of picking your battles, I wouldn’t choose to die on that particular hill.
I dunno; it sounds kind of awesome to me (if I were the one making everyone act as properly and awesomely as me).
I think the pictures issue is a work environment issue, and yeah, your boss does get to set that. Telling you you have to lose weight or join a church or listen to Rush Limbaugh or donate to United Way is over-stepping his bounds into your personal life.
I disagree. The presense or absense of photos on your cubicle walls has no effect on your job performance or company operations.
Print this out in 36 point font and hang it on the wall:
A NEAT DESK IS THE MARK OF A SICK MIND
And clearly, there are many people here who blindly accept this Führerprinzip without question, even though I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that many of those who would tell the OP to just grow up and develop proper obedience and work habits are fellow cube drones themselves. The principle that those set in authority over us are right is probably a good one, most of the time. But as this example illustrates so clearly, not all the time.