Entries Tagged as 'hygiene'

Sounds like somebody’s got a case of the Mondays…

November 15th, 2009 · 150 Comments

Perhaps Dirty Lady #2 got an office job?

related: the most disgusting thing is a nasty lady

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Tags: "helpful" advice · a little patronizing · hygiene · odor · office

Is this a thing now?

September 3rd, 2009 · 153 Comments

“Replace the roll“?  Fair enough. Any special requests after that, though, I’m not so sure about. As our submitter in Lexington, Kentucky writes: “Does that extra .34-second step really cause your day to go so horribly?”

On the flipside…don’t flush ‘em, I understand. but…really, ladies? As our submitter in Orlando put it: “I don’t know what scares me [...]

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Tags: TP · bathroom · hygiene · wtf?

the bathroom-stall booger epidemic

August 11th, 2009 · 139 Comments

Who knew? Apparently, every office has at least one person with an insatiable need to spread the contents of their nose on the wall.
From Florida:

From Georgia:

From a hospital (!) in Washington, D.C.

And another hospital in Pennsylvania:

from utah:

From Montana:

From California:

from Minnesota:

from Texas:

from ohio:

And even in Denmark:
[Submitter Latrine's rough translation: won't you be kind and wipe your boogers [...]

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Tags: bathroom · nose-picking · office · that shit is disgusting

Can you hear me now, biotch?

July 22nd, 2009 · 160 Comments

Our anonymous submitter — a college student in Michigan — “borrowed” this note under the pretense of reading it to empathize with the recipient. “While the note itself is straight up aggressive,” she says, “I do know that it has followed months of passive-aggressiveness.” And most of these complaints, she says, are totally legit. “I’ve [...]

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Tags: hygiene · michigan · noise · roommates · that shit is disgusting · university

know sweat

July 7th, 2009 · 89 Comments

Writes Jaime in Austin: “My husband and I lift weights at Gold’s Gym and we love it (no, really!) — except for their new signage reminding people to mop up their sweat.”

Meanwhile, next door…
(Well, sort of.) Kathryn spotted this similarly understated/backhanded message in a chichi Orlando, Florida boutique.

related: like a rotten sponge

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Tags: austin · gym · hygiene · retail hell

another unexpected consequence of global warming

June 5th, 2009 · 240 Comments

Writes Mike in Seattle: “I work in a large in-house call center for a giant of the aerospace industry. My office has 50 to 75 technical support folks, many of whom can be somewhat…less than hygienic. Following a rash of uncharacteristically hot days, this note showed up in the mens’ room, accompanied by a bottle [...]

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Tags: hygiene · odor · office · seattle

spit & vinegar

May 3rd, 2009 · 196 Comments

Writes Matt in Los Angeles: “I went to get some of the 2% milk I keep in our communal work fridge for my coffee, and BAM! — front and center was this lovely.”

related: and I’m singing “uh oh” on a Friday night

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Tags: heart · los angeles · office fridge · rebuttals · spitting · thanks (but not really)

Wanna touch the baby?

April 6th, 2009 · 372 Comments

“My co-worker had a ‘meet our bundle of joy’ party in a common space of his apartment building,” says our anonymous submitter in New York City, and these notes were peppered throughout the space. ”Not only did I opt out of ‘touching’ their baby, I also passed on digging into the bowl of Ruffles.”

Meanwhile, as Carson [...]

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Tags: "helpful" advice · CAPS LOCK · hygiene · moms & dads · new york

Southern Comfort

January 18th, 2009 · 121 Comments

Though the issue might not be top of mind for sophisticated and urbane readership of this website, let this serve as your warning: Should you find yourself in, say, Fayetteville, Arkansas (like Melissa, a California expat currently attending the U of A) you’ll soon realize how important it is to lay down the law with [...]

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Tags: all-staff e-mail · arkansas · baltimore · garbage · southern charm · spelling and grammar police · spitting · your/you're

hi kids, it’s your old pal, fluffy!

December 20th, 2008 · 108 Comments

once upon a time, our anonymous submitter informs us, a plucky young fellow who goes by the name “fluffy fox” found his way onto the walls of this underutilized florida dorm shower. as an avid personal hygiene enthusiast, fluffy has always been all too willing to provide grime-infested student bodies with his full rundown of [...]

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Tags: bathroom · florida · hygiene · shower · toilet · university

Oral argument

December 11th, 2008 · 69 Comments

Our defendant, Lee in Austin, was just finishing off a travel-sized toothpaste from a recent business trip when Lee’s roommate — apparently oblivious to this small change in routine — became convinced that Lee was mooching off her tube of Advance White.
“My roommate told my boyfriend that she had left me ‘a note,’ and about [...]

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Tags: austin · hygiene · meta · roommates · sharing is caring

and i’m singing “uh oh” on a friday night

November 30th, 2008 · 77 Comments

how’d you like to be flatmates with dianne in london? cos i’m thinking there just might be an opening soon…

related: clarifying motion #2

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Tags: bathroom · drizzunk · hygiene · london · roommates · spitting · u.k.

why you don’t want to go to b-school, in two words

November 17th, 2008 · 161 Comments

group projects.
#5, however, is what really seals the deal.

(click to enlarge!)
related: please ladies please

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Tags: a little uptight · bullet points · california · e-mail · hygiene

The most disgusting thing

October 30th, 2008 · 122 Comments

Says filly in New York: “I think it’s safe the assume the writer is neither a) an English major or b) a feminist.”

related: more from the frontlines of post-post feminism

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Tags: CAPS LOCK · bathroom · exclamation-point happy! · hygiene · new york · office · spelling and grammar police · that shit is disgusting · toilet · university

there are only 10 types of people in the world…those who remember to bathe regularly, and those who don’t.

September 24th, 2008 · 200 Comments

“neumont is a strictly computer-science college located on the second and third floors of an office building,” writes jared in south jordan, utah. it’s therefore a point of pride for neumonters that out of several hundred CS students, “there are [only] a few who seem to forget to shower for a few weeks at a [...]

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Tags: hair · hygiene · thanks (but not really) · utah

like nails on a keyboard

August 7th, 2008 · 269 Comments

nicole in australia says this note was left on her coworker’s computer. “we work in a fairly small office and no one will own up to putting the note there,” she says — not that they disagree with the sentiment.
think about it, though. which is worse: the click-click-click of long fingernails on a keyboard, or [...]

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Tags: australia · hygiene · office · on behalf of everyone

maybe you should switch to body wash?

March 31st, 2008 · 90 Comments

at least that would make the roommate situation a little less hairy…

related: losing lisa

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Tags: hair · hygiene · roommates · san diego · shower · that shit is disgusting

Clarifying motion #2

March 12th, 2008 · 111 Comments

After a minor breakout, Matt in Toronto “borrowed” his roommate’s Clinique cleanser…and then forgot to put it back where he found it. His (admirably direct) roommate asked if he’d mind not using her Clinique products again in the future, seeing as it was, you know, pretty expensive and not that big of a container. “No [...]

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Tags: "accidental" "borrowing" · actually totally reasonable · bathroom · hygiene · roommates · thx · toronto

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

(or burn)

February 12th, 2008 · 110 Comments

writes our anonymous submitter from canada: “i lived with these girls for a year, but about six to eight months in things started to get a little strange.” if our submitter had any doubts about how her roommates felt about her, however, the to-do lists that appeared on the fridge the weekend she was moving [...]

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Tags: hygiene · mean girls · roommates

Is nothing sacred?

January 5th, 2008 · 140 Comments

Poor Chase.

related: WoW, indeed

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Tags: CAPS LOCK · bathroom · hygiene · jersey · roommates · thanks (but not really)

What, no highlighting?

November 26th, 2007 · 107 Comments

Our anonymous submitter in Dearborn, Michigan spotted this gem in a women’s restroom at her office of “several hundred financial and information technology professionals” — perhaps the future workplace of a “trifling” young UC-Berkeley student?

related: I think it’s going to be a long long time

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Tags: CAPS LOCK · bold underlined italics · comma diarrhea · exclamation-point happy! · hair · hygiene · michigan · office

WoW, indeed.

November 22nd, 2007 · 63 Comments

You might think a hermit-like Warcraft addict would make the ideal roommate (no noisy sex, no hogging the remote…) but as this little piece of passive-aggressive gold demonstrates, there are some other issues to contend with. Like, say, the stench.

(From an anonymous submitter in Portland, Oregon.)
related: let me help you out

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Tags: "helpful" advice · CAPS LOCK · gaming · get a life · hygiene · odor · portland · roommates

Are you there, Margaret? God, could you be any more disgusting?

September 20th, 2007 · 335 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 the hook? If they actually [...]

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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

evidently, yes

August 2nd, 2007 · 42 Comments

 ellen in acton, mass. spotted this on the suggestion board at her gym.

at least they don’t have a mad bomber on the loose…yet.

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Tags: group bitchfest · gym · massachusetts · oh snap · spitting