Entries Tagged as 'office fridge'

What exactly are you trying to say?

March 20th, 2010 · 32 Comments

Most office fridge notes — especially when they pertain to specialty “diet” items like, say, a Jimmy Dean breakfast sandwich — read something like this one (from a cubicle farm in Burbank, California).

Not so at Rocky’s office in Austin, Texas…but office drama is never too hard to find in the shared fridge.

Of course, you don’t [...]

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Tags: food · kinda creepy · office fridge · smartass · stealing · wtf?

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

March 10th, 2010 · 146 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
extra credit: This [...]

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Tags: bullet points · food · obnoxious definition · office fridge · stealing · thanks (but not really) · that's disrespectful

a bitter pill to swallow

December 17th, 2009 · 123 Comments

“To the best of our knowledge,” writes our submitter from Raleigh, North Carolina, “the bottle in question is one of those $0.79 plastic Deer Park water bottles.” You know, the special kind carried in just about every gas station, 7-11, and grocery store in the state.

Moral of the story? Just another example of how taking [...]

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Tags: cry me a fuckin' river · guilt trip · north carolina · office fridge

“What if someone like you had stolen Baby Jesus?”

December 16th, 2009 · 215 Comments

As this note from Columbus, Ohio demonstrates, ’tis the season to be hilariously self-righteous!

related: All I want for Christmas
extra credit: Baby Jesus Theft [Wikipedia]
Roundup of stolen Baby Jesus reports [Wonkette]
Baby Jesus found! [FOUND Magazine]

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Tags: holiday spirit · jesus · office fridge · rhetorical question · spelling and grammar police · stealing

There’s a Nigerian prince I can put you in touch with for more information…

October 9th, 2009 · 156 Comments

Office lunch thieves: always despicable, and in this case — gullible, too.
The “helpful” (yet oh-so-devious) all-staff e-mail sent by the victim:

And — I shit you not — the response:

related: lean cuisine

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Tags: all-staff e-mail · columbus · food · office fridge · oh snap

wishin’ and hopin’

September 24th, 2009 · 117 Comments

When dealing with anonymous strangers, there’s no point in playing coy about your hopes and dreams. Tell us, kids, what do you REALLY want?

related: i hope your cat chokes

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Tags: die bitch die · god · more aggressive than passive · not-so-veiled threats · office fridge · stealing

frig you, ya big goof

August 19th, 2009 · 126 Comments

This note, from Michelle in Denver, displays the remarkable lengths that some people will go to avoid confrontation.
“And this bright-green gem wasn’t the only priceless thing visible,” Michelle says. “On the cubicle wall closest to the refrigerators was a camera…and it was actually connected to the computer and recording a live feed. This is why [...]

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Tags: denver · message to all intended for one · not-so-veiled threats · office fridge · smiley

I, who should seriously lay off the caffeine

June 30th, 2009 · 222 Comments

This martyr alert spotted by Randy on the breakroom fridge of his office in Chico, California…

related: hostile takeover

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Tags: california · coffee · martyr complex · milk · office fridge · thanks (but not really)

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)

the more the messier

April 30th, 2009 · 218 Comments

Presumably, writes Chris in San Francisco, the note-writer “figured that if she didn’t put a note on all each offending bag, someone was going to feel left out.”

Adds Chris: “Admittedly, the Kashi cereal box in the back has been there for over two years.  I leave it just as an experiment in human behavior, but [...]

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Tags: blitzkrieg approach · office fridge · san francisco

The International Brotherhood of Daves

April 16th, 2009 · 161 Comments

Writes Joe in Van Nuys, California: “Dave has been upset because people have been drinking his tea. Apparently, he was unaware of other potential Daves in the office. Next time, maybe he should clarify?”

related: who’s the smartass?

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Tags: california · office fridge · rebuttals · stealing · tea

mothers, lock up your crackers

February 8th, 2009 · 88 Comments

writes michael in st. louis: “i’ve tried my best to figure out the logic behind writing this note and then putting the salami back in the fridge, rather than simply throwing it away…” but so far, no luck. in any case, he says, “i’m glad that it’s been saved it for posterity, so it could [...]

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Tags: food · office fridge · st. louis

we didn’t “steal” your muffin — we leveraged it

November 10th, 2008 · 128 Comments

sigh. half the people in your department just got pink-slipped, your 401(k) is worth shit, and now, just when you thought things couldn’t get any worse…they’re coming for your muffin, too.
all in the name of shareholder value!

(leaked by sayf in greenwich, connecticut.)
related: lean cuisine
extra credit: morgan stanley cancels christmas, jobs [dealbreaker]

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Tags: connecticut · greenwich · money · not-so-veiled threats · office fridge · rebuttals · stealing · touching

A sign (or ten) that your HR department might have too much time on their hands

September 21st, 2008 · 146 Comments

The tenth-floor kitchen at this office has no fewer than ten of these painstakingly laminated, clip-art-covered notes — and our anonymous submitter says this kitchen is only the tip of the iceberg.
“Nearly all of the notes in our office receive the same attention to detail,” our submitter says. “Every time I come to work I [...]

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Tags: "helpful" advice · blitzkrieg approach · clip art catastrophe · gloriously redundant · microwave · office · office fridge · popcorn

perhaps it’s time for a little group therapy?

May 19th, 2008 · 112 Comments

our anonymous submitter spotted these notes in the shared kitchen of a “professional building” — one our submitter says is full of shrinks. perhaps one of them could deduce whether “i.e. me” fits the DSM’s criteria for a diagnosis…or whether she’s just having a little trouble with her latin.

related: eau dear
extra credit: “food odors [...]

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Tags: casual xenophobia · food · freudian shit · i.e. or e.g. it's all greek -- or is it latin? -- to me · odor · office fridge · oh snap

Stop! In the name of clip art.

April 15th, 2008 · 80 Comments

Like this phrase, there are a few irritating little pieces of clip art that keep popping up in submissions over and over again. Hovering somewhere near the top of most-wanted list is this pouty little white-gloved dandy.
From the factories of Pittsburgh…

…to the cube-farms of Virginia, this perspiring misanthrope has been spreading his message of intolerance [...]

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Tags: CAPS LOCK · bathroom · boston · clip art catastrophe · exclamation-point happy! · gloriously redundant · neighbors · office fridge · pittsburgh

and my beef sandwich and my yogurt

February 28th, 2008 · 82 Comments

spotted by sarah in minneapolis…

related: take out of box, place directly in toilet 

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Tags: "helpful" advice · FYI · food · minneapolis · office fridge

hostile takeover

February 5th, 2008 · 75 Comments

a possibly prescient note from the offices of yahoo! u.k….

related: just in case you didn’t catch the sarcasm

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Tags: excessive underlining · london · milk · office fridge · stealing · u.k. · yahoo

“take out of box, place directly in toilet”

January 13th, 2008 · 86 Comments

after noticing a tell-tale crisper sleeve in the garbage, charlie in new york spotted this helpful directive on the office fridge.

(though if you ask jim gaffigan, the thief was really doing the guy a favor.)
related: i swear this isn’t some kind of viral marketing campaign

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Tags: "helpful" advice · new york · office fridge · stealing · visual aids

It’s not funny, it’s my sandwich

December 5th, 2007 · 138 Comments

Joe in Northern Virginia has amassed a pretty divine collection of office fridge notes over the years, the best of which portend various forms of karmic/economic/physical retribution.

related: It must have been a pretty big bite

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Tags: "accidental" "borrowing" · ellipses-crazed · food · karma's a bitch · licking · not-so-veiled threats · office · office fridge · reston · stealing · virginia

ABP on the V8

December 2nd, 2007 · 88 Comments

nobody likes it when food goes missing from the office fridge, but one v8-drinking facilities staffer in savannah, georgia wanted to make her displeasure a bit more official.

adds our anonymous submitter: “as you can see, the pest control department took appropriate action.”

related: if the TSA was in charge of the office fridge? 

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Tags: beverages · georgia · office · office fridge · savannah · stealing

Who are you calling OCD?

November 8th, 2007 · 149 Comments

This just in: starving unborn children aren’t the only casualties of office fridge lunch thievery. As one anonymous New Yorker reports, now the sick and the infirm are being picked off, too!

(Thank you kindly? Best wishes? Hungry on the 12th floor, you kill me.)

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Tags: cleaning · exclamation-point happy! · food · guilt trip · ital overkill · new york · office fridge · questionable logic · rhetorical question · sarcasm · thanks (but not really)

If the TSA was in charge of the office fridge?

October 21st, 2007 · 246 Comments

Our anonymous submitter spotted this note posted by a coworker on the office fridge.
When asked about the note, this coworker described himself as someone “with a penchant for an orderly universe and a strong desire to see food mingle.”

related: Cubicle etiquette

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Tags: a little uptight · excessive underlining · inappropriate italics · let's try · office · office cop · office fridge · oh snap · san diego

Just in case you didn’t catch the sarcasm…

September 26th, 2007 · 97 Comments

Sounds like somebody in this Seattle office is havin’ a little ‘roid rage.

What’s Muscle Milk, you ask? Well, say its makers, “Muscle Milk is arguably America’s favorite protein.” Apparently because unlike, say, chicken, Muscle Milk comes in flavors like “egg nog,” “chocolate banana crunch” and “root beer float.”
related: Try a bite

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Tags: CAPS LOCK · all-staff e-mail · comic sans alert · ellipses-crazed · not-so-veiled threats · office fridge · sarcasm · seattle · spelling and grammar police · stealing

Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Processed-Food Fiend

September 10th, 2007 · 84 Comments

As this example from Winston-Salem, N.C. shows: hell hath no fury like a lactose-loving office worker.

The thief might be depending on the fridge’s contents as a source of food, but mercy? Don’t count on it.

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Tags: cheese · itemized list · north carolina · not-so-veiled threats · office · office fridge · stealing · winston-salem