sure, those luxury condos going up all over downtown austin might look pretty, but if you’re like, “dude, enough of this corporate bullshit!” our anonymous austin submitter says her building offers plenty of exciting local color you won’t find in those glass-and-steel towers. perks include: 1) the building’s property manager, a character known for his […]
Entries Tagged as 'CAPS LOCK'
just trying to “keep austin weird”
April 8th, 2008 · 130 Comments
Tags: CAPS LOCK · all clogged up · austin · landlord · toilet
the passive-aggressive note has not been destroyed; it has been solved
March 21st, 2008 · 112 Comments
this note represents pretty much everything about office culture that makes me cringe. appropriately enough, i can’t even bring myself to call out the specifics — it’s just too overwhelming. (but the sign will always be there…every day, taunting me.)
Tags: CAPS LOCK · alot · anthropomorphism · fridge · inane cartoon · mixed metaphors · say wha? · spelling and grammar police · u.k.
infinite note project
February 15th, 2008 · 87 Comments
faydra in gainesville, florida lives in an apartment complex she describes as “a step above dorm living” — 85 girls total, all of them coming and going at all hours. faydra’s next door neighbors kicked things off (with the most frightening clip art extravaganza ever) and things devolved from there. in chronological order:
related: a fancy […]
Tags: CAPS LOCK · clip art catastrophe · exclamation-point happy! · florida · neighbors · noise · rebuttals · smiley · underlining
if we give up our exclamation points, the terrorists win!!!
January 30th, 2008 · 60 Comments
“the tiny sioux city, iowa airport had a jaw-droppingly comprehensive intro to what one could or could not take on board a plane,” reports timoni in san francisco, including actual sample-sized bottles of toiletries taped up, show-and-tell style. “the corker, though, was this vehement note near the end (which, yes, had a plastic QUART-SIZE BAG!!!!!!!!! […]
Tags: CAPS LOCK · airport · apostrophe abuse · exclamation-point happy! · sioux city · spelling and grammar police
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 […]
Tags: CAPS LOCK · exclamation-point happy! · florida · now that's management · retail hell · visual aids