Entries Tagged as 'canada'

cubicle etiquette

July 17th, 2007 · 99 Comments

 
this series of signs (all made by one person, and pinned up across an entire bulletin board) is among my all-time favorites. the glorious redundancies, the inappropriate quotation marks, the clip art — oh, it’s just too good.

(yeah, the last one is blurry. our anonymous canadian submitter apologizes.)

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Tags: canada · cleaning · clip art catastrophe · music · noise · odor · office · office cop · privacy · spelling and grammar police · unnecessary "quotation marks"

10 people, one kitchen

July 13th, 2007 · 66 Comments

alanna lives in a house in ottawa with nine other girls, where “dishes are always being left in the sink dirty and growing stuff, or clean on the counter taking up space.” a note war has commenced on the window above the fridge.

by popular demand, alanna has helpfully posted another picture showing the underlying notes!

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Tags: canada · dishes · excessive underlining · kitchen · note wars · ottawa · roommates

passive-aggressive free-for-all

July 8th, 2007 · 77 Comments

during his fourth year of college, andrew from waterloo says he lived with some seriously passive-aggressive roommates. the following three notes all went up within a 48-hour period:

andrew couldn’t resist adding one of his own…

it was taken down.
related: the post-it wars

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Tags: dishes · excessive underlining · rebuttals · roommates · stealing · university · waterloo

who’s the imbecile?

June 19th, 2007 · 25 Comments

a note to alex in waterloo, ontario from his first-year roommate. says alex: “apparently i was violating some building rules that annoyed him and rather than asking me in person, he wrote this on our front door for all to see.”

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Tags: roommates · university · waterloo

really, enough with the weather

June 18th, 2007 · 60 Comments

this one makes me wince. seriously, ouch.

(from cassandra in toronto.)

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Tags: "helpful" advice · CAPS LOCK · elevator · neighbors · rhetorical question · toronto

love, apt. #3

June 12th, 2007 · 24 Comments

(spotted by kyla in regina, saskatchewan.)

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Tags: excessive underlining · neighbors · newspaper · saskatchewan · signed with love · stealing

the souls of our shoes

June 5th, 2007 · 22 Comments

this important safety message is brought to you from an anonymous worker at a call center in toronto…

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Tags: attire · danger · e-mail · kitchen · office · spelling and grammar police · toronto

passive perfectionism

May 31st, 2007 · 13 Comments

from corey in winnipeg.

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Tags: bathroom · canada · office · toilet · winnipeg