It was a “killer busy” week at the office, so Gord in Ontario admits that he and his ad-business coworkers left the place in a certain state of disarray. (Such is the wont of “creative professionals.”) Unfortunately, the boss chose that weekend to pop in to give some people an impromptu tour. On Monday, these adorable little thought balloons were posted all around the office.
The boss never mentioned the incident again. But rationalizing, it seems, that a sleeping dog is just a dog waiting to be kicked, Gord and his coworkers turned the notes into a T-shirt.
related: Is this what a post-post-feminist looks like?
92 responses so far ↓
#1
Candice A
Umm…Team WTF? So were those thought balloons individually posted and this reproduced on one piece of paper? If not, I don’t get it. Who are all those lines leading from the thought balloons pointing to? Are there little invisible people in there?
And how does one “show a professional attitude to every phase?” What does that even mean?
Jan 15, 2008 at 8:29 pm rating: 5
#2
eddy
As a boss, I gotta go with team boss here. You don’t leave your workspace like that. I mean…spilled coffee on books? The hell? Whenever I leave my office, it may not be spotless, but I sure as hell make sure that it doesn’t look like a pigsty to someone else. These office workers fail.
Jan 15, 2008 at 8:29 pm rating: 6
#3
anglophile
I was so embarassed! I brought my grandmother to see where I work on Monday morning, and she had to see all these signs with profanity on them!
Jan 15, 2008 at 8:45 pm rating: 26
#4
Canthz_B
Nothing on the floor ever again? Where the hell are we supposed to get anti-grav desks and chairs?!
Jan 15, 2008 at 8:46 pm rating: 10
#5
Canthz_B
Is it still legal to have a strictly “Man’s” business?
Somebody should watch what they put in writing!
Jan 15, 2008 at 8:49 pm rating: 6
#6
Canthz_B
“I know I’ve spilled coffee, now you’re making me read notes on the obvious on your dime!!”
Jan 15, 2008 at 8:57 pm rating: 2
#7
Grimfool
I have to be Team Neutral here; you don’t leave a shared workplace in a “certain state” of disarray even after a killer week . . . but the language of the boss’s notes suggest that he’s 18 years old . . . and then Gord & his Gordos think they’re cute enough to turn it into a t-shirt? The boss and the Gordos deserve each other; I’m just wondering if the boss gets a percentage of the shirt sales (the shirts are made in the USA, by the way, so thanks, Gordo!)
Jan 15, 2008 at 9:00 pm rating: 5
#8
Katie
I love that you made the notes into a shirt! That is priceless. Do you wear it to the office?
And, many of the graphic designers I work with are women, so I’m offended at all this “man’s business” business.
Jan 15, 2008 at 9:04 pm rating: 4
#9
Canthz_B
If this place is supposed to be a Fucking Shit-house, how business-like are we expected to be? All we do is have sex and otherwise relieve ourselves here, right?
Jan 15, 2008 at 9:05 pm rating: 4
#10
starburst2185
I don’t know which would be worse, to be the boss and have my employees embarrass the hell outta me, or to have to come in and read a note like this from my boss. Where’s Team Athority Problem, cause that’s who I’m with!
Jan 15, 2008 at 9:05 pm rating: 4
#11
fantasy
I wonder if they are wearing these T-Shirts while applying for new jobs? It would show their creative initiative!
Jan 15, 2008 at 9:22 pm rating: 3
#12
pry
i think this is all a ruse—someone’s bright idea to sell a few more t-shirts.
Jan 15, 2008 at 9:23 pm rating: 1
#13
fantasy
My guess would be that an image of a “Man’s Business” may just be a “FUCKING SHITHOUSE”!
Jan 15, 2008 at 9:35 pm rating: 9
#14
fantasy
Gord and his coworkers were thinking like professional “Business Men” by making their own T- Shirt business, but with that note the “Boss” forgot “Professional Attitude To Every Phase”!
Jan 15, 2008 at 9:49 pm rating: 2
#15
Wade
I’m a little confused.
How does posting a note in public saying “This Place Is A Fucking Shithouse” project a professional attitude?
Jan 15, 2008 at 9:50 pm rating: 12
#16
Canthz_B
Just how clean can you keep a brothel located in a port-o-potty?
Jan 15, 2008 at 10:23 pm rating: 5
#17
Team Cassandra
Click the link!
This one has boobies:
A Man’s Business – Jr. Raglan
It looks like he wrote that note with FECES.
Jan 15, 2008 at 10:25 pm rating: 2
#18
fantasy
Seest thou a man diligent in his business? He shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before mean men.
___ Old Testament, Proverbs, 22:29
Jan 15, 2008 at 10:33 pm rating: 1
#19
Canthz_B
“Don’t leave my place of business looking like a pig sty for a whole weekend!”
——21st Century, Proverbs 1:1
Jan 15, 2008 at 10:54 pm rating: 1
#20
Lurker
Doesn’t he mean, “a fucking delicious shithouse?”
Jan 15, 2008 at 11:11 pm rating: 6
#21
morpho aurora
the “boys” should have cleaned up before they left. but holy hypocrites, any boss who leaves a note like this is a complete fucking shit. it reeks of unprofessionalism.
Jan 15, 2008 at 11:22 pm rating: 3
#22
ard
Team Shithouse!
Jan 15, 2008 at 11:23 pm rating: 1
#23
Kelly
Team Go Ahead and Put Mud in the Pigsty and Fucking Mud Wrestle This Shit Out.
Jan 15, 2008 at 11:34 pm rating: 2
#24
Canthz_B
It’s your responsibility to keep it clean and this is the last time I’m going to say it!…Except for the next four things I have to say!
Jan 16, 2008 at 12:19 am rating: 5
#25
park rose
It all sounds too familiar.
Rose, close your door. Aren’t you embarrassed to have such a messy room? How can you let anybody in there? It’s a pig sty!
Boys, if you want to survive, you’d better start thinking like
business menmy mother.Jan 16, 2008 at 4:55 am rating: 9
#26
WickedLady
Well, I love it! I want that shirt.
I might just wear it to my entrance exam for art college.
Jan 16, 2008 at 6:05 am rating: 1
#27
raiseyourglass
Way to rally the troups!
Maybe I would have stayed at my last job had my boss been so sugar and spice like this one.
This is how pranks start….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0XdthbOkMU&feature=related
Jan 16, 2008 at 7:50 am rating: 2
#28
JPav
I’m gonna use those balloons to jazz up “Family Circus.” …Oh Jeffy, you so funny!
Jan 16, 2008 at 8:26 am rating: 2
#29
senor subagua
Creativity is as creativity does… if this team made a habit of leaving a messy workplace, then this jerk boss can only blame himself for bringing people in without checking it first; if this is an anomalous mess, he should recognize the importance of busting ass when the job needs to be done over keeping the workplace sterile in case he decides to drop by…
we all have to work with jerks sometimes, but if you work FOR one, that’s your own fault.
Go team new resume
Jan 16, 2008 at 8:42 am rating: 4
#30
Shieldmaiden96
If he manages like a high school football coach (ie the language), he is reaping his own whirlwind. Im just wondering if he wrote those notes in front of his guests. Veery impressive.
Jan 16, 2008 at 8:49 am rating: 1
#31
fantasy
I’m too Sexy for THAT shirt!
Jan 16, 2008 at 9:12 am rating: 3
#32
Writerrejected
Aw, man, I work in advertising as “a creative”…and I know the kind of dickweed who tries to bully people into being professional by being amazingly unprofessional and PA. On the other hand, this agency sounds like a mess; I wouldn’t use them.
Jan 16, 2008 at 9:25 am rating: 3
#33
amy d
1)The 2nd ballon on the left says “get this crap… into an organized area” If you bring crap into an organized area it would no longer be an organized area, true?
2) If this is a “man’s business” why is he hiring “boys” ?
Jan 16, 2008 at 10:04 am rating: 2
#34
Katzndogz
I love how the perky word balloons are juxtaposed against his white hot rage.
Jan 16, 2008 at 10:30 am rating: 1
#35
lola
I think I know what the boss is getting for Christmas (sorry, Christmakwanzukkah)
“A Man’s Business” BBQ apron!
That one still has me giggling.
Jan 16, 2008 at 10:52 am rating: 1
#36
bigtime loser
If the boss wants to keep it clean, maybe this “mans business” manager should act like a loving mother and clean it up and stop acting like a disgraced mother ready to send her kids to bed without supper.
Jan 16, 2008 at 11:41 am rating: 0
#37
GhostWriter
Opening Scene: a designer’s art studio in disarray, with the lights out.
The front door opens and a hand switches on the light. A man enters, while looking back to two ladies in the hall, whom he is pulling towards the door.
Man: “…and this is the Art department! It might be pretty messy, so we don’t have to go in…”
The two ladies strut in and look around in awe, as if they are bedazzled.
Man: “I know it’s quite a mess, let’s just…”
One girl grabs the Man’s arm “Hush Larry! This is fan-TASTIC! Look at all these papers and paints and glues…”
Lady 2: “Oh My Gawd- this is soo sexy! Look at all these huge pastels! I could totally draw a picture all over you, Carla!
Lady 1: “I know! It’s like a primitive warpainting altar!” she rips open her dress to reveal a bikini from the movie ‘1,000,000 Years B.C.’ do me up like a Warrior Princess, Tracey!
Man: “Hold on, let’s not get too…”
Lady 2 grabs Man by the coat and pulls it down around his waist, trapping his arms by his side. “You’ll be our Warrior! Carla- get his pants!”
The lights darken as the sound of crashes, splashes, laughter and sexy groans float through the air.
As the lights come up there is paint all over the studio, clothes strewn everywhere, and the half-naked Man (with tussled air and blue handprints on his back and chest) is crawling toward the door, saying “That better never happen again!”
Jan 16, 2008 at 12:39 pm rating: 5
#38
DrAstroZoom
Nothing passive about the original notes, but putting them all on a T-shirt? PA brilliance!
Jan 16, 2008 at 12:56 pm rating: 3
#39
Quite Contrary
I wish I worked there so I could wear the shirt. And, trust me, I would wear it proudly.
Jan 16, 2008 at 1:37 pm rating: 1
#40
Katzndogz
When I clicked on the link for the shirts, I thought they were going to feature one or two of the word balloons, not the long diatribe in the end. It’s funny as hell, but way too long for a t-shirt.
Jan 16, 2008 at 2:08 pm rating: 0
#41
Wade
we may have found a worthy replacement for the unitard.
Jan 16, 2008 at 2:26 pm rating: 2
#42
Writerrejected
Has anyone else read And Then We Came to The End? It’s a novel by that kid Joshua Ferris about an advertising agency. I’m reading it now. It’s pretty great.
Jan 16, 2008 at 2:29 pm rating: 2
#43
Canthz_B
If we wanted the hassle of thinking like businessmen, we would not be content to work in this “Fucking Shithouse”!
Please pony up the cash for a cleaning agency!
–The Creative Professionals
Jan 16, 2008 at 4:05 pm rating: 0
#44
sitboaf
Sounds like the “boss” doesn’t do a lot of work in that office, otherwise he might have had the courtesy of asking his “men” to tidy up for 10 minutes on Friday afternoon.
Or maybe the visitation was a last-minute idea. If so, how does the boss stroll out of the office on Friday without a word to the employees about the appearance, but fly into a white-hot rage after visiting the VERY SAME WORKPLACE a few hours later?
You want a neat workplace in case you want to show it off without notice? Be a “big boy” and let your employees know what’s expected of them!
Print those rage-balloons on a unitard and give it as a gift on National Boss Day.
Jan 16, 2008 at 4:51 pm rating: 2
#45
Canthz_B
Do not blithely into your weekend go.
Pride should have your space clean by close of day.
Rage, rage against the trash we dare not show!
Jan 16, 2008 at 5:46 pm rating: 1
#46
Team Cassandra
nuthin to see here folks!
Jan 16, 2008 at 6:00 pm rating: 0
#47
Ozymandias
The cleaning fairy really is a fallacy, folks.
Jan 16, 2008 at 7:18 pm rating: 2
#48
Team Cassandra
Am I the only one questioning the grammar on ” show a professional attitude to every phase”?
Wouldn’t it be at every phase….?
Would you even say phase?
Please don’t make me look it up
Jan 16, 2008 at 9:47 pm rating: 0
#49
Amanda R
This note is a little TOO creative.
Jan 16, 2008 at 9:59 pm rating: 0
#50
park rose
If you show a professional attitude to all the fays, they might just clean the room for you.
TC, that’s in response to 48!
(second definition, folks)
Jan 16, 2008 at 10:19 pm rating: 1
#51
Patrick B...
LOL!!!thats what you get for bragging on what you do and how your people do it for you…shoulda gone in and checked that the office looked like a showplace if you intended to brag and didn’t look like a shithouse….
Jan 18, 2008 at 10:52 am rating: 0
#52
fuhuck
Too bad he can’t fire the lot of them. He IS the fucking boss. If you don’t like that, become the boss.
Wankers.
Sep 3, 2008 at 5:57 pm rating: 0
#53
jason
Haha, “Made in the USA.”
May 3, 2009 at 2:11 pm rating: 0
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