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What is your policy on Nerf Guns being used at work?

Angela

If you were asked to consider the use of Nerf Guns at work, what would be your response to this request?

The IT sector and new start-ups are facing this phenomenon.

How would you communicate a well-balanced view of the potential risks to the individual and the business?

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  • I'm sorry, but I cannot believe this is a serious question!

    Why bother with the nerf gun? Why not just let staff flick elastic bands at each other, or throw sponges? That should satisfy the need to knock coffee into keyboards, keep the first aiders busy with the odd eye injury and allow the corporate bullies to gang up on today's favoured hate-targed with irritating, distracting and painful victimisation.

    As for the "boys and toys" discussion: If I offered the same argument for an irritating expression of need in the workplace, but with "girls and gossip," or "ladies and lipstick" as the subject, would I be called a sexist pig? I HOPE SO!

    I have not been a "boy" for over fifty years and while I have been ecorded as haveing an open mind and a sense of fun on occasion I find myself believing that the place for silly plaground toys and games IS the playground, not the workplace, and that the target for "fun" should be a willing participant, not a victim.

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