Comments on: I super duper hope you go screw yourself!

By: Newspeak

Newspeak — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 16:29:04 +0000

Dear Passive Aggressive Notes people –

You could have taken a whole different approach with this one and referenced Michael Jackson’s Dirty Diana. I’m just saying…

By: Whatevs

Whatevs — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 22:35:11 +0000

You know i gotta admit when i sit next to a cluttered coworker, i feel cluttered myself. I’ve worked with cubers who are just flat out slobs ate their desks and I can’t stand it! The “super duper” at the end was a little uncalled for but I’d send the note too!

By: gc

gc — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 17:09:11 +0000

I’m guessing Diana isn’t quite computer savvy since she can’t take a screenshot.

By: Concerned Co-Worker Explains

Concerned Co-Worker Explains — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 12:39:24 +0000

Did you see the office manager was giving one of the head honchos a tour yesterday? I know, right. But I could see that they could see Diana’s desk, with all those – exactly. Now they didn’t say anything, and the manager didn’t say anything to Diana at the time, but they must have noticed; I mean how could you not? So I decided – I had a free lunch hour. Chad cancelled on me – again! – that I’d say something. But then I thought to myself ‘this is Diana here, she’s just going to personalise things if I confront her directly’. Do you remember how she was that time that Mandy said that thing about her hair? Right – and that was meant as a compliment, I think, so think how she’d take criticism. So I thought ‘I’ll write her a short note, explaining the issue’ and just sign it as ‘a concerned coworker’. But I put concerned in italics, that way she knows I’m coming from, like, a place of friendship. Anyway, it’s done now and I feel really pro-active. Do you think I should volunteer to be the office health and safety person.

By: Radasserys

Radasserys — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 19:02:29 +0000

Hey Asshat,
I hope you die in a super duper fire.
Thanks so much,
Concerned as to why the fuck youre in my cubicle.

By: no srsly

no srsly — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 01:12:26 +0000

Cry if you need to, Elf. It keeps you from hurting people sometimes.
[I've had a coworker "straighten up" my desk, uninvited, *while I was sitting there*.]

By: Clumber

Clumber — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 19:57:49 +0000

Sheesh, get a flu a few days and everyone goes all batshit. Ok, i can’t believe anyone cares, but whatthehellever.

1.7 Kermit, The discretion is not in the security itself, but in the way that we dopesmack the ones who violate the security. Sorry if that wasn’t clear, again i cannot believe anyone give a shit, since most users in the damn agency don’t….

Additionally, you only named 1 part of my job, the other parts are assigned to others of varying competency.

3rdly, the student in question is and was a raging douchewaffle who lorded his higher power hipster-wannabe better than thou self over anyone in earshot because (ooohhh ~~~jazzhands~~~) he ran Linux on his personal box, used Vonage for phone, and so on. He didn’t need to learn anything, you see, because he already knew it all and had tricked those stupid bastards at the VA to pay for this program he was taking. So he told us. Every day. Over and over.

The best part is he never even remotely considered that I could have been the one to do it to his amazing special personal laptop… you know, being born with boobs and no dick apparently makes me too stupid to approach his level of amazing-technicalness. I mean how could a girl possibly know how to even access properties on a big scary linux machine!

By: Windsor Grace

Windsor Grace — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 16:54:34 +0000

That is the most passive agressive, ridiculous thing I’ve seen in a long time

By: Ed Decatur

Ed Decatur — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 16:29:05 +0000

Does a coworker’s messy desk make everyone else look bad? I never thought of that.

If so, how should you handle it when someone is dragging you down with their mess? Talk to the person directly and privately? Talk to the boss using general terms?

By: Jessica_Iowa

Jessica_Iowa — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 13:47:53 +0000

True story.

By: Slunt

Slunt — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 09:06:04 +0000

She shouldn’t have left her Windows session open during luch time to begin with … if she is as caring with her desk as she is with her computer, the note might be justified. However it’s not her co-worker’s job to tell her to clean her desk, even if it’s disturbing for the work environment. It’s her boss’s job.

By: BBB

BBB — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 02:22:17 +0000

Some people really do keep a nasty desk though. One person I work with has food containers behind the monitor and around the desk (sometimes she rediscovers items she had forgotten were there) as well as unwashed dishes (eats soup, leaves the last few ml in there for days), silverware, and cups. Her keyboard is grimy, sticky, and the level of uncleanliness is visible to the naked eye–it’s not just crumbs of something inside the keyboard, it’s eating with your fingers and then touching the keyboard type messy. The desk itself is sticky, the monitor is completely covered with smudge marks, and of course she has piles of paper everywhere. Anything that she uses, even when property of the entire office, she keeps on her desk.

Yes, she actually does make the rest of the place look bad. However, I am not her boss and it is not my job to clean up after her or be her mother and nag, so I let it be. But I can definitely sympathize with the feelings of the PA note writer.

By: Seanette

Seanette — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 01:09:27 +0000

In workplaces with that level of complexity, the only sensible answer I could think of was to record current passwords on the PDA I had at the time, that NEVER left my physical possession unless I was at home.

By: Royer

Royer — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 21:14:49 +0000

@ 1.4

or you could just lock the workstation for them, send a gentle reminder email or IM about corporate computer security, and not be pompous ass

who knows that might garner some goodwill and respect