PassiveAggressiveNotes.com » flow chart http://www.passiveaggressivenotes.com funny (if not necessarily "passive-aggressive") notes from pissed-off people Wed, 08 Feb 2012 19:51:33 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Hover & Flow(chart) http://www.passiveaggressivenotes.com/2011/11/15/when-you-pee/ http://www.passiveaggressivenotes.com/2011/11/15/when-you-pee/#comments Tue, 15 Nov 2011 06:58:34 +0000 Kerry http://www.passiveaggressivenotes.com/?p=19758 Writes Erica in New York: “I don’t think this woman is aware that the aggressive automatic flush makes water splash all over the toilet seats…but she’s obviously very angry.”

When you pee, do you squat and hover over the toilet seat?

related: Coffee pot flowchart

]]> http://www.passiveaggressivenotes.com/2011/11/15/when-you-pee/feed/ 131 Hey, look! A coffee pot! http://www.passiveaggressivenotes.com/2011/05/13/coffee-pot-flowchart/ http://www.passiveaggressivenotes.com/2011/05/13/coffee-pot-flowchart/#comments Fri, 13 May 2011 12:05:31 +0000 Kerry http://www.passiveaggressivenotes.com/?p=18292 This isn’t the first “coffee-maker etiquette” flowchart I’ve seen, but it is the most aesthetically pleasing.

Says Sarah in St. Louis: “The IT department in our office is notorious for drinking the last of the coffee without making more.” (Note the subtle “I heart C++” mug.) Apparently, one of her co-workers thought breaking things down into engineer-speak might help.

Hey, look! A coffee pot!

Meanwhile, in Toledo, Ohio…a variation tailored to a slightly different audience:

What would Jesus do...if there were only this much coffee left in the pot? *He would brew more!

related: Passive-aggressive flowcharts

]]> http://www.passiveaggressivenotes.com/2011/05/13/coffee-pot-flowchart/feed/ 80 The nerd’s guide to passive-aggressive behavior http://www.passiveaggressivenotes.com/2008/12/15/the-nerds-guide-to-passive-aggressive-behavior/ http://www.passiveaggressivenotes.com/2008/12/15/the-nerds-guide-to-passive-aggressive-behavior/#comments Mon, 15 Dec 2008 17:29:31 +0000 eerac http://www.passiveaggressivenotes.com/?p=10159 We’ve received several copies of this instructive diagram, which the helpful illustrators of Graph jam have made available to coffee watchdogs the world over.

The nerd's guide to not leaving the fucking coffee pot empty

Seeing people print their passive-aggressive flowcharts off the Internet makes our resident nerd, Eric, sentimental for simpler times. He quietly reflects on time spent wandering the halls of Brown University’s CS department back in 2007. In those days, tech-minded individuals still made patronizing flowcharts the old-fashioned way, using OpenOffice on Linux.

Did you just take an ice cube?

Though such documents are most commonly spotted in offices populated by engineers and other technically inclined folk, even Kerry — who is not earning her Ph.d in Computer Science — can appreciate the clarity of a flowchart like this one:

Criteria for the proper tactical usage of the phrase 'oh snap!': a flowchart

related: When Ph.ds get frustrated

extra credit: “Flow chart: is it fucked up?” [boingboing]

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