A manager in New Zealand's tax office often wears a fairy costume, complete with wings and a tiara, and makes her staff put pictures of monkeys on their desks, a newspaper has reported.
"It's just the way that she expresses her dress sense," an Inland Revenue Department spokeswoman told Wellington's Dominion Post, confirming that a team leader "chooses to wear fairy wings some days".
The department said the pictures of monkeys on the desks of about 12 call centre workers was part of the "innovative ways" used by managers "as a technique for creating discussion and generating feedback".
"Staff were encouraged to use this to symbolise a particular area of concern for them as an individual. The monkey symbolised the concern, not the person," the spokeswoman said.
Opposition Member of Parliament Rodney Hide, who has frequently criticised tax office methods, told the paper: "I really do not think this is the way to achieve the professional IRD that we all aspire to."
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