Entries Tagged as 'obnoxious definition'

The time-tested “sausage, egg and cheese” diet

March 10th, 2010 · 145 Comments

Angie in Columbus, Ohio says this is the second (hilariously) furious fridge note to be posted lately in the office kitchenette. Adds Angie: “Who knew a Jimmy Dean breakfast sandwich fit into a ‘special diet’?” Perhaps next time the writer could just hop (er, drive) on over to Taco Bell?

related: It’s not funny, it’s my sandwich
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Tags: bullet points · food · obnoxious definition · office fridge · stealing · thanks (but not really) · that's disrespectful

RSV-f’ing-P. Comprenez-vous?

December 13th, 2009 · 154 Comments

“Our office manager was upset that people weren’t responding promptly enough to the Christmas party invitation,” says our submitter in San Diego.
In keeping with the holiday spirit of things, the office manager  apparently channeled that anger into the posting of this (uncredited) About.com excerpt in the office kitchen, for the edification of all. How that’s [...]

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Tags: etiquette · obnoxious definition · office · party planning committee · san diego

thanks for the clarification

September 8th, 2009 · 106 Comments

Exhibit a) From a share house of would-be flip-cup players in Garfield Heights, Ohio (!!!)

Exhibit b) from an office in Dallas. Writes our anonymous submitter: “Everyone in the building knew who was trashing the bathroom, but no one ever confronted the guy directly about it. After about a year, this note went up.” (Not surprisingly, [...]

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Tags: CAPS LOCK · blitzkrieg approach · obnoxious definition

i’m not a doctor, but i was an extra on ER once?

December 3rd, 2008 · 150 Comments

jen says this liquor store in chicago’s lincoln square is completely plastered with notes like these, but — vexingly enough — the guy at the register was such a hawk she was only able to snap a few photos. happily, i’d say jen scored a hat trick for insolence with these three.

related: free markets, free [...]

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Tags: blitzkrieg approach · chicago · irregular capitalization · obnoxious definition

Sincerely, disappointed

November 20th, 2008 · 126 Comments

Our anonymous submitter says this display is just one of many microwave missives his coworker has created. “Someone tore it down and threw it on the floor once,” he says, “but she put it back up, laminated with heavy-duty tape.”

And of course, the art-imitating-life inspiration for this post: Pam Beesly.

related: To each his own microwave
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Tags: CAPS LOCK · cleaning · fiction · highlighter · microwave · new york · not-so-veiled threats · obnoxious definition · office · spelling and grammar police

the art of the passive-aggressive note

May 23rd, 2008 · 81 Comments

sure, it’d be easier and quicker to just clean it up. but the modern passive-aggressive (like katey in berkeley’s ex-roommmate) can’t pass up the opportunity to make a point.

a common variation on the van der rohe approach, as documented below by sam in dallas, is the so-called “reverse magritte.”

meanwhile, post-modern passive-aggressives (like this new [...]

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Tags: actions speak louder · art · berkeley · cleaning · houston · new york · oakland · obnoxious definition · office · roommates · san francisco · wtf?

covering all the bases

April 9th, 2008 · 92 Comments

“it seems too many people have made love to the office water cooler,” says lizzy in new york. and some of them, it seems, are getting a little sloppy.

lizzy says the “office of water” thing refers to the fact that “our office is full of water. like, the fridge doesn’t have anything but bottled water [...]

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Tags: CAPS LOCK · d.c. · double-entendre alert · new york · obnoxious definition · office · spelling and grammar police · that's unsanitary · water

free markets, free people, free papers

October 19th, 2007 · 217 Comments

another doozy of an apartment manager note from oakland, california. our anonymous submitter wasn’t able to save any of those 14 notices, so it’s unclear if any of them were anything like this one.

related: love, apt. 3 

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Tags: CAPS LOCK · california · excessive underlining · guilt trip · landlord · neighbors · newspaper · oakland · obnoxious definition · stealing

Losing Lisa

October 3rd, 2007 · 156 Comments

Gina from Santa Cruz lives in a dorm where ten girls share one bathroom. Says gina, “I love saga notes, and feel we need some more of them, so I figured this collection would certainly do the trick.” Indeed, Gina, indeed! The progression here from pleasantries and smileys to — well, you’ll see — is [...]

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Tags: "helpful" advice · all clogged up · bathroom · die bitch die · eww · excessive underlining · internet citation · it's science! · mean girls · more aggressive than passive · not-so-veiled threats · note wars · rebuttals · saga · santa cruz · shower · smiley · that shit is disgusting · that's unsanitary · university

containing as much or as many as is possible or normal

August 8th, 2007 · 50 Comments

in all fairness, says brandi in austin, “this note was written after our dishes became so caked with fungus that we had to buy new stuff. the smell was also REALLY bad.”

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Tags: austin · dishes · excessive underlining · exclamation-point happy! · garbage · internet citation · lOWERCASE l · obnoxious definition · shit · texas

Dearest roommate

July 26th, 2007 · 108 Comments

“Is it doubly passive aggressive to use this site to convey this message?  I am the creator of this note, and the photo depicts actual conditions. I would love to send a post of this to said roommate at work.” —flushpatrol in Washington, D.C.

related: servicing over a half-billion people…each and every day.

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Tags: d.c. · internet citation · meta · roommates · sex sex sex · toilet

a single unit

May 12th, 2007 · 34 Comments

At first glace, this notice  — from an auto shop somewhere between New York and Atlantic City — doesn’t seem to fit the criteria for a passive-aggressive note (observe the absence of faux niceties like “please” or “thanks!!!”), but the pseudo-helpful clarification (“this means pants + shirts as a single unit…”) helps inch it just [...]

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