as this sign from a montgomery, alabama breakroom shows, “PopCorn Users” remain one of the most persecuted groups in the workplace today.
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Entries Tagged as 'microwave'
especially deborah
August 17th, 2008 · 205 Comments
Tags: alabama · bold-underlined-caps · excessive underlining · gloriously redundant · highlighter · irregular capitalization · microwave · montgomery · popcorn
crazy is right
February 19th, 2008 · 224 Comments
in the office kitchen, expecting your coworkers to wipe up the spatters from their exploded hot pockets seems like standard enough microwave etiquette. and a ban on charred popcorn and leftover tuna casserole? eh, fair enough. but this note — from an anonymous office worker in baltimore — is the kind of thing that leads [...]
Tags: a little uptight · baltimore · microwave · office
eau dear
February 11th, 2008 · 90 Comments
this oh-so-subtle note was posted by mary’s former boss, “a pathetic professor in a backwater institution” where 90% of the graduate students happened to be korean, japanese, or chinese.
“nevermind that he doused himself with great lashings of brut in an attempt to jazz up the bald-up-top-ponytail-in-back look he had going on,” mary says. “there were [...]
Tags: a little insensitive · a matter of taste · clip art catastrophe · fish · microwave · odor · office · spelling and grammar police · university
office anthropomorphism
December 29th, 2007 · 64 Comments
many offices, it seems, are a regular disneyland of what only appear to inanimate objects. the evidence? from frank in san francisco, a talking sponge:
from amy in annapolis, a talking toilet:
from ben in san antonio, a talking door:
and then there’s my favorite – from an anonymous submitter in washington, d.c. – a talking (and walking) [...]
Tags: CAPS LOCK · annapolis · cleaning · clip art catastrophe · confusion??? · d.c. · irregular capitalization · maryland · microwave · opening/closing · san antonio · san francisco · texas · toilet
you gotta keep ’em separated
October 18th, 2007 · 183 Comments
this delightful note comes to us from the wilds of suburban orange county, california. “there is a door at my school (a private college) that is constantly propped open,” explains amy, a grad student. “up until yesterday, the note on the door said, ‘please close door.’ i have NO idea about the microwave [...]
Tags: CAPS LOCK · california · excessive underlining · exclamation-point happy! · irregular capitalization · microwave · o.c. · opening/closing · reverse psychology · spelling and grammar police · stealing · thanks (but not really) · university
to each his own microwave
July 19th, 2007 · 106 Comments
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 [...]
Tags: belfast · kitchen · microwave · office · spelling and grammar police · u.k.
the post-it wars
June 4th, 2007 · 20 Comments
after receiving numerous “helpful tips” from her roommate at the university of minnesota…
lydia decided to add a few post-its of her own.
(the large signs on the oven and the microwave were already there.)
Tags: "helpful" advice · cleaning · dishes · etiquette · excessive underlining · exclamation-point happy! · food · kitchen · microwave · minnesota · rebuttals · roommates · sponges · university

