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??

I’d have done something to make him more inclined to not leave his locker door open, like leaving something smelly in there.

NBU - Jim's lucky you didn't rip it up! The fact she's 16 is disgusting as well.

No excuse for his actions. This is justice.

Well I couldn’t give a single shit about damaging someone else’s property when the property in question is a pornographic image of a child.

Jim sounds disgusting. He a) gets sexual gratification from looking at a naked child and b) is further gratified at the prospect of the discomfort he is causing the women he works with by displaying this image that he knows is morally wrong and getting away with it.

It’s shocking that your management have allowed this.

He was always saying he liked her cos she was so pretty. So now he gets to focus on her pretty face more.
I was tempted to stick some swim shorts on her too as she’s in a barely there thing, so at least he can see her arse cheeks I suppose…

You know this will end up in the paper . BTW I think it was fantastic what you did , Jim's a dirty old pervert .

Actually out of everyone i think management are the ones to blame here. They have been told by multiple people multiple times that it's not acceptable and is making everyone uncomfortable and they allowed it to continue, so really it's on them.

He should have taken it down or kept his locker door closed. If peiple have raised an issue before, then management should have ensured it was removed.

You, however, have damaged somebody's personal property and no matter wether you liked it or not, you should be dealt with in the same way, anybody should be, for damaging personal possessions.

Yes, this is one for the Daily Mail/Loose Women for sure.

I would have just raised it with management so they could tell him to take it down personally. But it sounds like everyone will enjoy the drama.

Poor Jim, what's the harm in bringing soft porn into the workplace?

Jk. Well done

Well I couldn’t give a single shit about damaging someone else’s property when the property in question is a pornographic image of a child.

The OP says Jim was 16 when he acquired the image, and so was the model. There is nothing wrong with one 16 year old fancying another 16 year old. The image shouldn't have been out there, by today's standards, but you can't re-write history.

I also voted baby because you damaged someone's property.

I’d normally say you should never damage property but sometimes you have to fight perversion with twattishness and I’m strangely very proud of you OP!

but you’ll get loads of comments saying you should have handled it differently, cos, you know, you have to ‘be kind’.

You shouldn't have defaced his property. I'm not saying I would want to see it either but this was not the solution.

You and others had already tried to communicate your issue with it and that was ignored, so I think YANBU.

I agree. If everyone had been quietly seething or just talking about it between themselves then it would have been OTT but you tried to do the right thing & were ignored so sod Jim!

‘Do you ever see topless women on holiday? God help you if you ever do - you'd probably cry’

as a woman I see naked women all the time. As a gay woman I absolutely would not bring a almost naked picture of a woman that I masturbated to as a teen and pin it up in my workplace where it’s visible to others. Then refuse to believe other might not want to see it… and in fact I might wonder whether it’s appropriate at all for a grown adult in their 40s to be drooling over a picture of a topless teenage girl.

Bloody autocorrect yabu

Brefugee It's an OLD picture of a topless model, not a real-life person working there. Get a grip

he wrote into The Sun and got a signed one sent- so it’s very precious to him

This is why you are being unreasonable.

Because he didn't just cut it out of a newspaper, he wrote off to the paper for an actual photograph, which you went into his locker and destroyed. You had no business going into his locker, open or not.
If you'd made her a little bikini and stuck it on top, I'd have applauded you. But you permanently damaged his property.

And you say you're good mates with him? I think you're a lousy friend.

And I think this even though I would also hate the photo.

This

There is nothing wrong with one 16 year old fancying another 16 year old. The image shouldn't have been out there, by today's standards, but you can't re-write history.

true. But Jim is no longer 16 and the workplace is not the right place for that image to be on show. Jim was asked to take it down.