Would you ever let two people with My Little Pony desktops train employees?

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

I mean let's imagine you had two very qualified people for training new hires, but they also had My Little Pony desktops and decorated their cubicles in MLP stuff. Would you consider this too much of a negative to trust them with training with the impression they'd give with the company?

(For the record with what I'm doing next week and who my partner is, my company's answer is clearly "yes".)

[Kitteh]

It has no bearing on how they do their job, so yes.

[Lief 🗽]

I would fire anyone who had a MLP wallpaper, regardless of their job performance.

[MaxQue]

I would fire anyone who had a MLP wallpaper, regardless of their job performance.

Didn't knew you became a Republican.

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

We hardly give a sh!t

[Oak Hills]

Really, people?  You're going to discriminate against employees based upon this?

[All Along The Watchtower]

Was this thread really necessary?

[Lief 🗽]

Really, people?  You're going to discriminate against employees based upon this?

Part of running a professional workplace involves not letting your employees decorate it with f[inks]ing cartoon ponies.

[CLARENCE 2015!]

Really, people?  You're going to discriminate against employees based upon this?

Part of running a professional workplace involves not letting your employees decorate it with f[inks]ing cartoon ponies.

Exactly...to me, it reflects a lack of maturity

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Really, people?  You're going to discriminate against employees based upon this?

Part of running a professional workplace involves not letting your employees decorate it with f[inks]ing cartoon ponies.

Problem is you couldn't set this rule without a wrongful termination lawsuit unless it applied to basically all custom desktops and cubicle decorations. I mean you can't say My Little Pony is not OK but Pokemon, Transformers, Hello Kitty, and all sorts of anime and video game stuff are OK. But our site outperforms other sites that do have such restrictions and tighter dress codes creating a bland work environment, and our division manager in a meeting once even told us that he partially attributes that to our site increasing morale and not pissing off employees with such rules.

Also you would seriously fire the girl who has a picture of her daughter playing with her MLP dolls as her background? I doubt even most Republicans would approve of that.

[Lief 🗽]

No, a picture of her daughter is fine. But something like this would not be.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Well as I noted you'd need a pretty consistent desktop policy, you can't just say "My Little Pony is not OK".

[Lief 🗽]

Yeah, all children's cartoons would not be allowed.

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

Really, people?  You're going to discriminate against employees based upon this?

Part of running a professional workplace involves not letting your employees decorate it with f[inks]ing cartoon ponies.

Exactly...to me, it reflects a lack of maturity

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Yeah, all children's cartoons would not be allowed.

Well if you want a bland workplace that harms performance, go ahead. The main reason the management here would never do so is because they believe it'll mean the site makes less money. The same reason they won't drug test.

[Oak Hills]

For which site do you work, BRTD?

[Donerail]

I would not have employees with My Little Pony desktops. Non-issue.

[Mad Deadly Worldwide Communist Gangster Computer God]

I would not have employees with My Little Pony desktops. Non-issue.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Was this thread really necessary?

Once could ask that question of most threads started by BRTD, especially if they include a poll.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

For which site do you work, BRTD?

A call center.