“I have no traces of child paraphernalia in my Mini Cooper,” says our submitter from Alexandria, Virginia — and she didn’t buy her car for environmental reasons. (“I bought it because I’m a Mini fan,” she says, “regardless of the global impact.”) So, as you might imagine, she was more than a bit puzzled to [...]
Entries Tagged as 'the earth'
Save the earth…kill the kids?
March 3rd, 2010 · 159 Comments
Tags: northern virginia · pure poetry · strangers · the earth · unsolicited feedback · wtf?
pomp and circumvent
November 18th, 2009 · 151 Comments
Who needs a water cooler? Nothing fosters “community” like shared networked printers! Need proof?
First up, an anonymous submission from a cubicle farm in Rochester Hills, Michigan. (Not pictured, our submitter says: two additional copies of the same “Pomptly” note to the left and right of the original.)
And from Illinois…
From Omaha, Nebraska…
(And from Brooklyn…and just about [...]
Tags: note wars · office · oh snap · rebuttals · spelling and grammar police · the earth
Al Gore knows you’re a little tease
August 9th, 2009 · 104 Comments
Caroline sends this delightful trio of holier-than-thou notes from “a rather famous university in Scotland where many students and staff have delusions of grandeur.”
The first note was spotted, Caroline says, while exiting a building “where many people work late and lights are almost always burning to help us find our way through the maze of corridors. [...]
Tags: CAPS LOCK · anthropomorphism · double-entendre alert · energy usage · scotland · the earth · university
Iron-ic Chef America
August 4th, 2009 · 205 Comments
Writes our anonymous submitter: “I own a restaurant, and the writer of the note is a college student who has worked for me for a while now. Yesterday, her pal flatly refused to put on her uniform (a chef coat) and I was so tired of her shenanigans that I roared at her right before [...]
Tags: butterflies are so passive-aggressive · farewell letter · nice stationery · p.s. · restaurant · the earth
And a very happy Earth Day to you!
April 22nd, 2009 · 86 Comments
Alec in Houston found this little work of art on his desk, he says, “after I went out for lunch and didn’t do the dishes like they had asked.” With gritted teeth, he goes on: “They have ‘too much work’ and I have ‘none’ so I might as well wash them!”
related: Al Gore knows you [...]
Tags: a little patronizing · dishes · houston · office · thanks (but not really) · the earth
The return of Thx Sandra
October 20th, 2008 · 148 Comments
Casey in Human Resources may have moved on, but not to worry — Thx Sandra is here to solve our global climate crysis!
related: It takes a “genius”
Tags: CAPS LOCK · anthropomorphism · clip art catastrophe · energy usage · exclamation-point happy! · garbage · recycling · san diego · spelling and grammar police · temperature · the earth · thx
how good is that?
August 19th, 2008 · 176 Comments
our anonymous submitter in takoma park, maryland says her roommate/landlord is constantly leaving little post-its and e-mails for the other roommates, but i think these two have a bit of yum-o synchronicity.
related: the first thing i did when i woke up
Tags: e-mail · food · maryland · takoma park · thanks (but not really) · the earth
al gore knows you drove when you could have taken your new bicycle
July 21st, 2008 · 235 Comments
kendall was waiting for her peach perfection at the jamba juice in elmhurst, illinois when she spotted this note on the napkin-holder. writes kendall: “i guess it’s their passive-aggressive way of saying, ‘take fewer napkins, a**hole!’”
UPDATE 10/12/09: a copycat is on the loose in milwaukee, wisconsin! (as spotted by paul in nebraska)
a tip for would-be [...]
Tags: "customer service" · guilt trip · illinois · politics · shameless meme-mongering · the earth
Two points for chutzpah, but zero for originality
September 11th, 2007 · 100 Comments
Writes our anonymous submitter in Corte Madera, California: “We have a lot of passive-aggressive notes up around the office, and most of them are addressed to the entire office staff in common areas. You can imagine my surprise when after eating lunch and going out for a smoke break with some coworkers today, we came [...]
Tags: CAPS LOCK · california · cleaning · dishes · garbage · guilt trip · kitchen · moms & dads · office · oh snap · opening/closing · recycling · spelling and grammar police · the earth · visual aids · your mother doesn't...

