Following reports Wednesday that Human Resources manager Ellen Neely had begun her menstrual cycle, employees of venture capital firm Optima Group decreed today that the woman would be banished from the office forthwith until such time as she became pure again. We hereby cast you from our sight, Red Ellen. Find a rock outcropping on the outskirts of town; there you must reside for seven days, or until that fateful hour at which you are no longer unclean, West Coast accounts director Dan Fischer told the 34-year-old Neely, adding that until the crimson defilement recedes, she must fast while the sun is up and refrain from cooking, worship, and work-related email. Take this pack of food, and do not touch your colleagues as you leave. The scent is thick on you, bleeding one. Go! Banished! Banished! At press time, sources say the sales team was driving Neely from the break room by beating her ankles with sticks. 