Entries Tagged as 'd.c.'

compassion in the workplace

September 23rd, 2009 · 235 Comments

Spotted by Kirk at “a very high-end consulting firm” in Washington, D.C.
Classy, right?

related: suck on this

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Tags: d.c. · heartwarming compassion · illness · office

This!! Is how!! You know!! We mean it!!!

March 31st, 2009 · 128 Comments

Writes Desiree: “This is a note at the express (stamps-only counter) at a very busy post office in Washington, D.C.. They are apparently!! very!! uptight!! like everyone else in D.C. (myself included)!!”

Meanwhile!! in Florida…

And! in Los Angeles!

related: this is why your postal worker is disgruntled

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Tags: CAPS LOCK · clip art catastrophe · d.c. · exclamation-point happy! · going postal · spelling and grammar police · you call that punctuation?

Deviled egg, anyone?

January 26th, 2009 · 119 Comments

As Rick in Tennessee can attest, sharing a fridge with more than two unrelated roommates can get tricky — even in the rare event that everyone manages to keep their paws to themselves. The upside? “While there’s no space in the fridge for food, I’ll never have to worry about running out of condiments.”

Meanwhile, in [...]

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Tags: d.c. · fridge · roommates · tennessee

What’s black, white and totally over?

December 11th, 2008 · 101 Comments

From Canberra…

To London…

To Washington, D.C….

…it seems like one thing everyone can agree on is the total obsolescence of print media.
(sigh)
related: Love, apt. #3

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Tags: australia · canberra · d.c. · newspaper · pleasantries as afterthought

next on thieves with low self-esteem

June 9th, 2008 · 141 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

covering all the bases

April 9th, 2008 · 92 Comments

“it seems too many people have made love to the office water cooler,” says lizzy in new york. and some of them, it seems, are getting a little sloppy.

lizzy says the “office of water” thing refers to the fact that “our office is full of water. like, the fridge doesn’t have anything but bottled water [...]

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Tags: CAPS LOCK · d.c. · double-entendre alert · new york · obnoxious definition · office · spelling and grammar police · that's unsanitary · water

where angels fear to spit

February 13th, 2008 · 70 Comments

from an anonymous heathen in washington, d.c.:

related: it must have been a pretty big bite

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Tags: bold underlined italics · d.c. · exclamation-point happy! · neighbors · smoking · spelling and grammar police · spitting

a friendly tip from your waitress

January 24th, 2008 · 279 Comments

at the washington restaurant where scott works, a customer recently informed one of his coworkers that when she was a waitress back in the day, tips were regarded as a luxury (a sentiment that’s been echoed by many commenters on this site).
thrilled as she was by this little history lesson, scott’s coworker decided a little [...]

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Tags: d.c. · restaurant · tipping

Office anthropomorphism

December 29th, 2007 · 65 Comments

Many offices, it seems, are a regular Disneyland of what only appear to be inanimate objects. The evidence?
From Frank in San Francisco, a sentient sponge:

From Amy in Annapolis, Maryland, a talking toilet:

From Ben in San Antonio, Texas, a talking door:

And then there’s my favorite – from an anonymous submitter in Washington, D.C. – a talking [...]

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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

Actually, we just hate you

December 13th, 2007 · 99 Comments

“We really don’t hate the holidays,” says our anonymous foreign-policy elf in Washington, D.C., “just passive-aggressive coworkers.”

related: Perhaps a committee to assess the health of the committee?

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Tags: d.c. · e-mail · holiday spirit · money · office · party planning committee · spelling and grammar police

It’s not food, mister — it’s ice cream!

November 29th, 2007 · 100 Comments

Tourist traps have the best signs. More proof? This exercise in subtlety is from Provincetown, Mass., where it was spotted by intrepid vacationer Teresa from Boise.

Exhibit b) is from Washington, D.C., in a store Sam says sold “all sorts of crap, from Nixon and Michael Jackson pins to African drums and sweaters.”

And in Las Vegas, [...]

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Tags: CAPS LOCK · beverages · blitzkrieg approach · cape cod · d.c. · food · ice cream · massachusetts · questionable logic · smoking

perhaps a committee to assess the health of the committee?

August 20th, 2007 · 101 Comments

“the healthy companies committee” explains katherine in d.c., is the name of the office pep squad led by the sender of the e-mail. (“ironically,” she adds, “he does not seem to be able to deal with his frustration in a ‘healthy’ way.”)
the hilarity of this note is more subtle than say, a “thank you terry,” [...]

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Tags: comma diarrhea · confusion??? · d.c. · dishes · dishwasher · e-mail · exclamation-point happy! · not-so-veiled threats · office · questionable logic · royal we · spelling and grammar police

Dearest roommate

July 26th, 2007 · 108 Comments

“Is it doubly passive aggressive to use this site to convey this message?  I am the creator of this note, and the photo depicts actual conditions. I would love to send a post of this to said roommate at work.” —flushpatrol in Washington, D.C.

related: servicing over a half-billion people…each and every day.

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Tags: d.c. · internet citation · meta · roommates · sex sex sex · toilet

dear alex

July 10th, 2007 · 22 Comments

scott saw this note posted to the refrigerator of his friends’ house in d.c. and surreptitiously snapped a photo. “i didn’t want to pry by pulling out the whole note,” he says. “i’m pretty sure alex was a roommate in the house at some point, but it’s probably been years.”

the magnet’s a nice touch, though, [...]

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Tags: d.c. · more aggressive than passive · moving/not moving · roommates

special people garage

June 21st, 2007 · 33 Comments

this is a special note indeed.
the idiosyncratic spelling, spacing, bolding and are fascinating — i love how the third sentence is so rhetorical it doesn’t deserve a question mark — but i think what i enjoy most is the after-the-fact realization that the desired action here just wasn’t quite explicit enough.

(thanks to molly in [...]

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Tags: d.c. · dishes · dishwasher · kitchen · office · spelling and grammar police

I would prefer

June 4th, 2007 · 17 Comments

“I still put my stuff all over his couch,” says Ryan in D.C., who adds that this note is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to his “anal-retentive” roommate. Ryan will be moving out of the apartment soon, but (in a final passive-aggressive gesture) says he has stuffed the couch full of [...]

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Tags: d.c. · roommates