To have ‘defaced’ this photograph??

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We have lockers at work, in our break room where everyone goes and one co-worker,
Jim, has a photo of a famous, topless page 3 girl on the inside of his door.
the girl in the photo was 16 when it was taken, and he’s had it since around the same age - he wrote into The Sun and got a signed one sent- so it’s very precious to him.

several women have mentioned to Jim that they’d rather he didn’t have it there as the locker door is often left open and we can see it. Jim thinks we’re prudes, because it’s famous page 3 girls, and IN his locker it’s not an issue.

Anyway, cut to last week. I was alone in break room. Locker door was open so I’m looking at this picture. There were Sharpie pens sitting on the table. So I gave the child in the photo quite a substantial bikini top with the permanent marker.

shit has hit the fan! Management don’t quite know what to do. Jim is furious, and the workforce divided into those who think it’s funny and those who think it was wrong.
no-one know who did it… Jim
his suspicions …

So MN, was AIBU??

It won't be an original

shit you have just destroyed Jim's dreams forever!

I wonder if it was her signature. He's probably been wanking himself raw since the '80s over a picture signed by Dave from the Sun's promotions department.

You should have spoken to management about the issue rather than defacing it.

Regardless what you think it has sentimental value for him and vandalising it is not the right approach.

Is defacing property more serious than the open display of illegal child sexual exploitation material in the workplace?

Presumably if the OP worked for you, you'd have some rules about the display of images of CSE in public areas?

Whatever you do with your breasts is up to you but pictures of naked women in the workplace is considered sexist and is in contravention of current workplace policies.

As a pp said everyone’s in the wrong here.

Jim sounds a bit ick but the poster is of a woman who is probably now his own age, so not a current teen. Nothing illegal about it, but he should have accepted that the location of it was provocative. I don’t feel sorry for him.

Management needs to up their diplomacy and management skills.

But back to you OP, the worst offender here. What else do you disapprove of and will therefore destroy?

YANBU and I did almost exactly the same thing when I replaced a colleague's photo of a woman in a skimpy bikini with one of David Cameron in his swimming trunks. The colleague in question was furious but had been told by HR to take it off his desk and refused, so he had it coming.

Is defacing property more serious than the open display of illegal child sexual exploitation material in the workplace?

No but OP shouldn't have taken it into her own hands. Whilst people had complained to Jim, it doesn't sound like anyone had actually approached management to try and sort this out in a better way first.

@mam0918 you don’t think there are issues with cosent of a sixteen year old girl?

the sexualisation of girls has an impact across the board

Yes, it doesn't sound like a great place to work. Ineffective management, men with topless pictures, defacing other's stuff. What else is going on?

@Discovereads is that the same for indecent images of children?

the fact remains the majority of leather handbags are not from crocodiles & are not illegal to use at work.

But back to you OP, the worst offender here.

not really though, hence why no one cares when pedos get beaten up in prison.

Sam Fox’s dad was her manager. Imagine that situation now, your dad arranging photo shoots of his underage child

@onelittlefrog the op went to management

But not to HR when management didn't act.

This!

Why should you have to keep asking and have no one take you seriously. That's very unreasonable that nothing was done on the first time of asking. Most people wouldn't be brave enough to even ask and put themself in the firing line. It's a workplace. There should be nothing there to make people uncomfortable. Your employers have a duty of care. As a human being and a person who needs a job to pay the rent I wouldn't risk my job by having a picture like that especially once I know it makes people uncomfortable. Well done!

That was, unfortunately, all too common. Remember the countdown to her turning 16? Sick.

I voted YABU because you permanently defaced someone's property (possibly valuable as it was signed), and that's not right. The rights and wrongs of having pictures like that at work are another matter and management should have sorted out the problem.

I think you're confused. Destroying child porn is a GOOD thing. Displaying child porn in a workplace is a BAD thing.

Do you need a flowchart?

Given the legalities of having pictures of naked people in the work place I doubt that this is true.

If it is true the OP went about this the wrong way and should have reported this to management and HR in writing. Destroying property is also illegal.

But I look forward to the OP's next vigilante experience when she starts dismantling overly loud exhausts.

Amazing how many of you seem to think that child pornography is ok if its an original signed copy.

So if Jim put up pictures of naked children that he got off the internet, would that be ok? Or would it be alright to destroy them?

It really won’t be valuable, it will be more than likely a mass produced copy. And I assume would be illegal to sell now as would be an illegal image of a child

@Sparklingbrook as I said management should have also gone to HR

@CrunchyCarrot why do you think it’s important to protect the value of sexual images of children?

But they didn't see a problem. Which is why Op should have.