Entries Tagged as 'cleaning'

office anthropomorphism

December 29th, 2007 · 64 Comments

many offices, it seems, are a regular disneyland of what only appear to inanimate objects. the evidence? from frank in san francisco, a talking sponge:

from amy in annapolis, a talking toilet:

from ben in san antonio, a talking door:

and then there’s my favorite – from an anonymous submitter in washington, d.c. – a talking (and walking) [...]

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Tags: CAPS LOCK · annapolis · cleaning · clip art catastrophe · confusion??? · d.c. · irregular capitalization · maryland · microwave · opening/closing · san antonio · san francisco · texas · toilet

living with an adolescent (abridged)

November 14th, 2007 · 213 Comments

carlina in texas is close with her parents, but she’s been having a bit of a rough time lately. apparently carlina’s mother has grown tired of her daughter’s apathy/hostility/general malaise, and slipped this classic mom note under her door.

if that note didn’t remind you of your own mom, perhaps you can relate to this one [...]

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Tags: cleaning · guilt trip · moms & dads · signed with love · texas

who are you calling ocd?

November 8th, 2007 · 146 Comments

this just in: starving unborn children aren’t the only casualties of office fridge lunch thievery. as one anonymous new yorker reports, now the sick and the infirm are being picked off, too!

(thank you kindly? best wishes? hungry on the 12th floor, you kill me.)

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Tags: cleaning · exclamation-point happy! · food · guilt trip · ital overkill · new york · office fridge · questionable logic · rhetorical question · sarcasm · thanks but no thanks

your to lazy

October 15th, 2007 · 172 Comments

those troublemakers requesting more crazy apartment notes can thank our anonymous submitter, a GM at a property management firm in springfield, missouri for today’s masterpiece. “one of our resident managers delivered this letter to 115 units at her property, then e-mailed me a copy because she was REALLY proud of it,” our submitter writes. “i [...]

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Tags: TLDR · cleaning · dogs · exclamation-point happy! · garbage · irregular capitalization · itemized list · landlord · missouri · more like crazy · music · noise · not-so-veiled threats · parking · rhetorical question · smoking · spelling and grammar police · vandalism

are you there, margaret? god, could you be any more disgusting?

September 20th, 2007 · 311 Comments

mona in los angeles brings us this pair of notes from her high-rise century city office building. says mona, “apparently my co-worker saw the panties at issue. my question is…who leaves their panties in the bathroom at work? who does that?” my question: why are we letting paris and britney off [...]

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Tags: "helpful" advice · CAPS LOCK · attire · bathroom · bodily fluids · cleaning · danger · excessive underlining · group bitchfest · hygiene · los angeles · office · that shit is disgusting