Writes Jonathan in the UK: “Nick, bless him, diligently cleans the office microwave when he’s at work every Sunday morning. By Monday, the smell of bleach has usually gone. However, I think the latest soup splattering may have pushed him over the edge.”
Entries Tagged as 'microwave'
No Soup for You!
February 11th, 2013 · 79 Comments
Tags: food · microwave · office · U.K.
Duh-runk
January 20th, 2013 · 26 Comments
Our submitter, Steffany, says she found this abandoned burrito in the microwave and set it on the table. When she woke up the next morning, she says, “my roommate had left me this a bitchy note…so I left one for her.”
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Tags: college life · drizzunk · food · Kansas · microwave · Oops? · roommates
Fish cookies, anyone?
December 6th, 2012 · 60 Comments
It was a Friday and Meredith in Lexington, Massachusetts was pretty much running on auto-pilot when she made the mistake of microwaving leftover tacos for lunch — FISH tacos. Much to her horror, Meredith says, “The smell immediately permeated the office and got everyone talking and wondering who had committed one of the worst office kitchen taboos — second only to burned microwave popcorn.”
In an attempt to make things right, Meredith says, “I then asked some software engineers, who like to bake frozen cookie dough in the toaster oven, if they would help me cover up my secret shame by baking some sweet-smelling cookies. This is the note they left for all to see.”
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Tags: etiquette · fish · Massachusetts · microwave · odor · office · oh no you didn't · public shaming
Or…how about no signs at all?
May 31st, 2012 · 37 Comments
Scoffs our submitter in Los Angeles: “Because as a healthy, functioning, adult, you really need to be reminded that you’re a good person for cleaning up after yourself.”
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Tags: Los Angeles · microwave · office · rebuttals
Please clear your unused microwave time: now with more questionable statistics!
May 9th, 2011 · 84 Comments
Note: the following message has explicitly NOT been approved by Jack Donaghy. (Do not be fooled by that GE logo at the bottom of the page.)
Remarkably enough, our submitter, Dan in Milwaukee, says the following message was NOT penned by a satirical television writer, but rather by an anonymous member of the office Green Police. (The two pennies — payment for 2011′s extra energy usage — were then added later by an anonymous member of the office Bullshit Police.)
This is, of course, simply a new strategy in the ongoing war being waged in kitchenettes across the world by the United League of Office Workers Who Have Nothing Better to Complain About.
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Tags: dubious scientific claims · energy usage · microwave · Milwaukee · office · questionable logic · The Earth · Wisconsin · WTF?
Three never-ending office arguments
September 27th, 2010 · 61 Comments
I’d nominate all three of these for inclusion in the encyclopedia entry for “petty office debates.”
Exhibit a) From San Francisco:
Exhibit b) From Jeron in Dallas:
Exhibit c) From Monterey, California:
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Tags: California · cleaning · Dallas/Fort Worth · energy usage · microwave · office · oh snap · rebuttals · San Francisco · that's disgusting · thx · Your mother doesn't...
If you thought your microwave was dirty…
August 25th, 2010 · 51 Comments
…then you obviously haven’t been introduced to the Houston, Texas model apparently gunning for the title of “the Dane Cook of household appliances.”
(For that, you can be thankful.)
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Tags: anthropomorphism · cleaning · flowers, trees, houseplants & gardens · Houston · microwave · most popular notes of 2010 · thanks (but not really) · touching
Oh, and NOW you tell me
March 31st, 2010 · 112 Comments
As spotted by Brad at a ski lodge in Palmerton, Pennsylvania…
By Hickepedia at an office in Richmond, Virginia…
By Kyle at his apartment building in Los Angeles…
And by Leah at her office in Chicago…
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Tags: food · microwave · office · WTF?
Kitchen vigilantes
January 11th, 2010 · 94 Comments
Vaguely fishy notes like this one from Toronto are pretty common around office kitchens…
…but I’ve never seen a note that gets right to the point quite like this one from Amber in San Francisco.

![My food is NOT your food. don't eat it. duh. [response] You left this in the microwave when you were drunk, idiot. My food is NOT your food. don't eat it. duh. [response] You left this in the microwave when you were drunk, idiot.](http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8497/8399880816_96ba0bd51f_o.jpg)




![Your mother does not work here. This is disgusting for others who use this restroom. {Response:] YOU SURE NAG LIKE MY MOTHER Your mother does not work here. This is disgusting for others who use this restroom. {Response:] YOU SURE NAG LIKE MY MOTHER](http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4090/4946706042_e2c0c42e87.jpg)
![To conserve energy, please turn off the dupe deck when you are done. Tks [RESPONSE:] food for thought: it may in fact consume more energy to continually turn it off + on. To conserve energy, please turn off the dupe deck when you are done. Tks [RESPONSE:] food for thought: it may in fact consume more energy to continually turn it off + on.](http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3501/3743415137_0631709eb3.jpg)
![Covering your food keeps microwave clean. Thnx! [RESPONSE:] Please state the obvious here... Covering your food keeps microwave clean. Thnx! [RESPONSE:] Please state the obvious here...](http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4152/4954794738_da426574b6.jpg)






