with finals and thesis deadlines coming up, stress levels among grad students at uc-berkeley have been running high (which means attention to the finer points of, say, apostrophe use, are running low). and now there’s a lunch thief on the loose!

sadly, says our submitter, the note’s multi-pronged approach (guilt, threats, helpful advice) seems to [...]

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our anonymous submitter in detroit tells us his roommate is a repeat offender when it comes to passive-aggressive note-leaving. this time around, he went with a note AND a text message. (”and it’s not even my fault!” our submitter says.)

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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 [...]

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an anonymous submitter brings us this note from the kitchen of vermont theater’s group housing, “where all the techies live.” unlike other notes we’ve seen attributed to management/the apartment/the cat, etc., our submitter says the bit at the bottom was, in fact, written by the house’s cleaning lady. he adds, “granted, the kitchen was messy, [...]

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paddy in belfast sends us this series of shots from his office kitchen, where several of his coworkers have taken their frustrations with microwave cleanliness into their own hands.
it all started when one day, a microwave appeared bearing this note:

…but SDT wasn’t taking any chances.

later, a second microwave appeared, complete with its own note:
…which prompted [...]

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