From William, who notes: “Sadly, management thought this was too severe, so it was replaced with a long whiny treatise on coffee etiquette.”
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#1
captain flummox
Leave it to management to launch their humor seeking missiles at what was a undoubtedly a tiny bright spot of wit in the office. Attention management: When you fail to appreciate the comedy in overstatement, you fail at life.
May 19, 2007 at 10:30 am rating: +7
#2
Maurik
Classic! I see these around my flat daily, if my camera wasn’t broken, I’d send some in!!
May 21, 2007 at 4:48 pm rating: 0
#3
Jeremy Wells
HAHA, love it. I put one up in my office that started with “You too can make a fresh pot of coffee when you take the last cup. It’s easy!” followed by step-by-step instructions for making coffee and a promise for “next week : Removing the empty carafe from the heat.”
Alas, it too suffered the slings and arrows of managerial oversight.
May 22, 2007 at 2:28 pm rating: +1
#4
The Liberal Avenger
I’m kind of interested in seeing the long, whiny treatise on coffee etiquette.
May 23, 2007 at 8:55 am rating: +1
#5 passive agressive notes at Urban Monarch
[...] of my favorites include a friendly reminder to refill the coffee pot and a little warning for would be food [...]
May 23, 2007 at 10:10 am rating: 0
#6
Amy
Lol.
That sounds like the kind of thing I would say!
May 23, 2007 at 11:29 am rating: 0
#7 Laziness, Music and Comedy youtube fun « Scorpio Risen
[...] came across a new blog earlier, passive-aggressive notes, and I particularly liked this post. Made me smile.I watched a programme, methinks t’was on Channel Five, a few weeks ago, called [...]
May 23, 2007 at 4:47 pm rating: 0
#8
Steph Mineart
My girlfriend has this problem with the guys at work – when she said something to one of them who breezed out leaving the empty pot on the heating element, he said “I don’t know how to make it. I’d just mess it up.”
She wanted to leave a note saying “your penis is not so large that it gets in the way of you making a new pot of coffee.”
May 24, 2007 at 9:39 am rating: +5
#9
phil
Comic Sans is never forgivable, even if used ironically.
May 31, 2007 at 2:33 pm rating: +3
#10
psipsina
Wow, that’s the best note ever!
May 31, 2007 at 4:44 pm rating: 0
#11
Amy
agreed, [with phil] am so not a fan of Comic Sans. Uck. Dirty font!
Jun 4, 2007 at 5:59 pm rating: 0
#12 switch to tea
[...] just severe enough digg_skin = ‘compact’; reddit! stumble it! function [...]
Dec 4, 2007 at 1:56 pm rating: 0
#13
brad
That coffee was f*cking delicious
Sep 14, 2008 at 11:28 pm rating: 0
#14
meg
That rocked!
And, I love even more that others recognized (and hated!) the font. Fantastic!
Jan 17, 2009 at 12:44 am rating: 0
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