TEARS OF A CLOWN

Political correctness is still alive and well in the public service....

Take this odd tale ..

The Department’s Christmas Party is around a Carnival Circus theme and the poster created by the social club that is hung up all around the building depicts, among other images, a clown.

Today we received an email from an employee who tells us she has a severe phobia of clowns and cannot bear to look at the posters. She would like the design of the poster to be changed ASAP. Until then she is going around with post it notes and sticking them up over the face of the clown on the posters. Of course, someone else is going around and taking the post-it’s off.

This employee is taking her complaint to the Chief Executive’s office and we have to put black stickers over the face of the clown on all the posters.

So do all public servants who have phobias of bullshit and procrastination and verbosity get to plonk sitckers over anything that offends us too? - We wish....