Blue Light Filter Evangelist Insists Colleague Remove Phone or 'Accept the Consequences'

Office worker Craig Filter has been formally asked by his company's HR department to stop distributing unsolicited literature about blue light damage to his colleagues' desks, after a campaign that one co-worker described as 'more intense than anything I experienced in a religious upbringing.' Filter, who discovered blue light filtering glasses eighteen months ago, has since made it his mission to convert every member of staff at Pendleton Accounting to what he calls 'visual hygiene.' His activities have included placing laminated infographics about retinal damage on all 34 desks, sending weekly emails with subject lines such as 'Your Screen Is Killing Your Eyes: Day 247,' and approaching colleagues during lunch breaks to discuss macular degeneration. 'I'm trying to help,' Filter said, adjusting his amber-tinted lenses, which he now wears indoors and outdoors at all times, including in the car park, where he concedes visibility is 'somewhat compromised.' 'Every minute of unfiltered screen exposure is a minute closer to irreversible photoreceptor damage. I've done the reading. My colleagues have not. Someone has to care.' Colleague Sandra Normal described the situation as 'exhausting.' 'He stood behind me for ten minutes yesterday watching me work without blue light glasses,' she said. 'Then he sighed very loudly and left a pamphlet on my keyboard. The pamphlet had a picture of a sad retina on it. I didn't know retinas could look sad.' Filter has also petitioned the office to replace all overhead fluorescent lighting with 'biologically appropriate amber alternatives,' a request that the facilities manager described as 'impractical and very orange.' HR has requested that Filter limit his advocacy to 'personal conversations during designated break times.' Filter has agreed, though he considers the restriction 'a victory for blue light and a defeat for human vision.'