writes tim: “i work at one of the better specialty coffee shops in portland, oregon. some people come in knowing that we can prepare a fantastic drink, but don’t actually know what they like or how to order it. and sometimes these people decide to write a note expressing their displeasure instead of simply asking [...]

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as far as he can tell, chris in portland thinks this anonymous text was sent by his downstairs neighbor after a morning of hitting the snooze button one too many times. “needless to say,” chris admits, “this was not the first time i had ignored the alarm  clock.”
what’s strange, chris says, is that he has [...]

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passive-aggressive? oh, heavens no! these are just a few selfless public service announcements.
from an office in oregon…

new zealand…

and kentucky…

related: the overly friendly coworker: ruining your day since you held the elevator for her that one time

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“these are the results of your typical no-one-washes-their-dishes-at-the-office situation,” says our submitter in portland, oregon.
“there used to be a note above the sink that said “NOT YOUR MAMA,” but it was replaced with these gems, both of which sort of creep me out (and neither of which has ameliorated the dirty dish issue).”

meanwhile, elsewhere in [...]

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spotted by lange from cambridge, mass. while campaigning for obama in new hampshire. says lange: “decided against bugging them with our political spiel. (we assumed they were obama supporters anyway.)”

meanwhile, corporate belt-tightening isn’t going over so well with the office grunts this halloween.  “this was the response to the environment/holiday committee’s lack of halloween candy [...]

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(a passiveaggressivenotes.com public disservice announcement)
1. from portland, oregon…

2. from williamsburg, virginia…

3. from miami, florida…

related: come get some
extra credit: herpes: it’s got new york by the balls [nymag.com]

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homero in portland had just finished heating up his lunch in the office microwave when he returned to his desk to find this “helpful” note (attached to an ad from the local alt-weekly) waiting on his chair. though it’s unsigned, he says he’s pretty sure he knows which coworker left it for him. “she’s kind [...]

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ruben in oregon works for an apple reseller where the managers like to fire up the sales team with little competitions. (iphones don’t sell themselves, people! for that, you’ll have to hold out for version 2.0.) when josh, the store’s very own dwight schrute, was pronounced the winner of a recent contest, things unfolded pretty [...]

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you might think a hermit-like warcraft addict would make the ideal roommate (no noisy sex, no hogging the remote…) but as this little piece of passive-aggressive gold demonstrates, there are some other issues to contend with. like, say, the stench.

(from an anonymous submitter in portland, oregon.)
related: let me help you out

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our anonymous submitter spotted this note on a resident’s door in an apartment complex in portland, oregon. oddly, she says, this resident lives alone.
then there’s this one, which james’s roommate found in the laundry room of his sacramento apartment complex.

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“random people seem to have a lot of fun vandalizing portland’s many bus stops,” says kathryn. “several of the stops i use frequently have had their schedules removed, which is oh- so-helpful. the other day when i went to the stop in front of my office to go home, i noticed this little note. they [...]

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one of our regular trouble makers, boggywoggy (a.k.a. val in oregon) took some time off from the comments section this weekend to go fishing, and decided to grab a quick bite at waldport, oregon’s, er, finest, the flounder inn. val spotted this note on one of the restroom stalls.

adds val, “i thought about putting [...]

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exhibit a) submitted by an anonymous bystander at a lunch counter in oregon caves national park:

exhibit b) submitted by patrick in kansas city, mo, who explains: “my friends chris and katie had a rude waitress a few weeks ago. in order to tell the waitress that there was indeed a reason she wasn’t getting a [...]

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