Entries from January 2008

think ya used enough dynamite there, butch?

January 23rd, 2008 · 69 Comments

but…but…it’s cold out and you’re so close to all the really good gifting suites! perhaps a swarovski-crystal-encrusted-organic-sea-kelp loofah would change your mind?

(thanks to dan m. in park city, utah for snapping the photo.)
related: but He took the wheel

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Tags: more aggressive than passive · park city · parking · utah

thou dost protest too much, methinks

January 22nd, 2008 · 66 Comments

writes joe in denver: my roommate “gets very emotional when someone criticizes him, but will gladly email me or leave notes around the house with dozens of ‘little reminders’” like this one, written after joe left a broom in the living room overnight.

related: how not to housetrain a roommate

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Tags: "helpful" advice · a little uptight · denver · smiley

in-game placement would have scored much higher in user engagement

January 21st, 2008 · 61 Comments

at the circuit city in bradenton, florida (which i envision something like this) one anonymous employee reports that much of the staff’s downtime is spent obsessively playing guitar hero 3 in the store’s break room. they even have a 42-inch wall-mounted flatscreen expressly for this purpose. or at least, they did, until about a month [...]

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Tags: CAPS LOCK · exclamation-point happy! · florida · now that's management · retail hell · visual aids

ceci n’est pas une note passif-agressif

January 20th, 2008 · 59 Comments

rachel in virginia says her two roommates, “despite seeing and talking to me multiple times a day, decide to air their grievances through notes.” these grievances include being responsible for a $200 water bill “because i wash my face and hands at night and in the morning.” rachel has decided that enough is enough.
to paraphrase [...]

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Tags: meta · montana · virginia

to the victor goes the bile

January 17th, 2008 · 59 Comments

ruben in oregon works for an apple reseller where the managers like to fire up the sales team with little competitions. (iphones don’t sell themselves, people! for that, you’ll have to hold out for version 2.0.) when josh, the store’s very own dwight schrute, was pronounced the winner of a recent contest, things unfolded pretty [...]

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Tags: confusion??? · group bitchfest · office · oregon · retail hell · whiteboard