Entries Tagged as 'blitzkrieg approach'

a sign (or ten) that your HR department might have too much time on their hands

September 21st, 2008 · 118 Comments

the tenth-floor kitchen at this office has no fewer than ten of these painstakingly laminated, clip-art-covered notes — and our anonymous submitter says this kitchen is only the tip of the iceberg.
“nearly all of the notes in our office receive the same attention to detail,” our submitter says. “every time i come to work i [...]

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Tags: "helpful" advice · blitzkrieg approach · clip art catastrophe · gloriously redundant · microwave · office · office fridge · popcorn

as davy crockett once said…

September 8th, 2008 · 139 Comments

i recently returned from a few days in san antonio, texas, where my friend matt and i amused ourselves on the riverwalk with a competition to find the tackiest souvenir possible in each store within three minutes or less. (my first win: a “pooping armadillo” keychain.) when we entered this fine establishment, however, i had [...]

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Tags: "customer service" · blitzkrieg approach · excessive underlining · exclamation-point happy! · heart · highlighter · san antonio · texas · touching

next on thieves with low self-esteem

June 9th, 2008 · 140 Comments

terri in d.c. found this sign-bedecked scooter outside her apartment hilarious for three reasons. first off, “the fact that one of those little squirrely-looking scooter guys got out his most aggressive art supply and wrote “fuck off and die” to a stranger.”
second, she says: “i live between two churches, a library, an elementary school, [...]

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Tags: blitzkrieg approach · d.c. · die bitch die · irregular capitalization · questionable logic · stealing

it takes a “genius” to come up with a potluck theme like this one

May 28th, 2008 · 319 Comments

dealing with the rantings of your crazy boss or overzealous receptionist is one thing, but what do you do when your office’s resident passive-aggressive note-leaver doesn’t even work there? casey in san diego (a.k.a. the beloved runbarbara) says that’s the situation she’s found herself in at her job.
the offender, sandra, “has met me a total [...]

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Tags: CAPS LOCK · bathroom · battle of the sexes · blitzkrieg approach · california · clip art catastrophe · crazypants · dubious scientific claims · exclamation-point happy! · gloriously redundant · office cop · party planning committee · san diego · spelling and grammar police · thx · toilet · unnecessary "quotation marks" · vomit · you call that punctuation?

the finest, most literary vagrants

April 29th, 2008 · 80 Comments

writes an anonymous student at binghamton university: “some grad students are mad about the teaching load for TAs, so they have been putting up these posters in order to raise awareness.”
adds our submitter (with a yawn): “i am now more aware of how douche-y they are.”

related: or take a cab!!!

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Tags: binghamton · blitzkrieg approach · new york · raging against the machine · university