“Our department head thought we should be be bringing in doughnuts more often,” says our anonymous submitter in Illinois. One of the department’s “severely underpaid” underlings, meanwhile, thought otherwise.

UPDATE: For those of you asking “But where’s the ridiculous clip art?!” I bring you this rather dashing toreador/sheriff (as spotted by Mel in the break room [...]

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A parable of the state of the “hot dot-com” workplace in 2009: The story goes, according to our anonymous submitter in California, “that some executive-level person decided to put a pinball machine into our break area. After several months, someone must have complained about the noise, because a note went up telling us it was [...]

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Kellye from Huntsville, Alabama spotted these notes posted on boarded-up diner during last month’s G20 summit in Pittsburgh.
Explains Kellye: “The broken windows were caused by a few rowdy anarchists/drunk college kids from Oakland who apparently missed the mark in their defiance of the man. Since the vandals represented only a very small cross-section of protesters [...]

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A message from your friendly fast food worker, Corey in Mount Pleasant, Michigan: “Sometimes, food service customers do not fully appreciate the people/work that goes into making their orders. It’s thought that spitting in someone’s sandwich is routine, but we often find the secret messages to be more satisfying.”

related: this is why your server is [...]

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“One morning last summer,” writes Stephanie in Illinois, “my brother and I arrived at the company where we worked to find these notes posted to the candy vending machine. (Mind you, it was 8:45 a.m.) Apparently, the man who fills the vending machines — a.k.a ‘Mr. Candyman’ — had failed to restock the machine for [...]

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our submitter is santa fe says not everyone at the new mexico department of health was happy when the folks in charge decided to call their own bullshit and replace the candy and sodas in the vending machine with new “healthy” snacks.
(there is still a “junk food” vending machine in the building just one flight [...]

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writes an anonymous student at binghamton university: “some grad students are mad about the teaching load for TAs, so they have been putting up these posters in order to raise awareness.”
adds our submitter (with a yawn): “i am now more aware of how douche-y they are.”

related: or take a cab!!!

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what’s employee morale like inside yahoo’s sunnyvale headquarters, you might ask, amid all the chatter about coming layoffs, the possible microsoft takeover, and everything else? well, according to one anonymous yahoo! employee, in the toilet would be one place to look.
says our yahoo! tipster: “first they took away our right to stand on the toilets. [...]

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writes our anonymous submitter: “i work as a payment processor for a local ambulance company. i see lots of notes scribbled on bills, but this one was a first. at least he/she is honest! ”

related: three cents for the saliva

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Emily from Boston summed this one up beautifully, so I’m going to let her take it away. Writes Emily:
1. I’m not making this up.
2. The 389 Highland Ave referred to in the note is a shop called “Your Move Games.” They have a basement where dorky kids congregate and play D&D and WoW and [...]

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Casey from Shreveport, Louisiana spotted this on the Coke machine in the office break room. she clarifies: “Henry G.’s comment is in reference to the increase in price, not Katie’s wanting more Coke Zero.”

Meanwhile, Breanna in L.A. saw this somewhat amusing notice in a liquor store on the corner of Hollywood and Wine. (“Did someone [...]

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“our CA (community advisor) posted this friendly note on our bathroom door,” says our submitter, a college student in milwaukee.
the dorm residents — apparently a libertarian-minded bunch — were pissed about frequent CAD (common area damage) charges for putting recyclables in the trash instead of the mandatory recycling bin. they took a break from ranking [...]

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garvey is a 3L at a “relatively cheap” state law school in new york city, where he says “there’s a perpetual joke that it’s still a bargain, even with all its many, many problems.” garvey found this note attached to one of the ancient computers in the school’s less than state-of-the-art law [...]

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Lanqui spotted this note on a moped that was locked to a street sign in Greenwich Village. That bit of orange there? Yup, that would be a ticket.

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our anonymous contributor works part-time (through a non-profit) at a large, “troubled” high school in milwaukee. today, while making some copies, she found this anonymous wonder.

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writes mel in beaufort, south carolina: “our city has decided to go with those shorter, more pleasing to the eye signs for businesses. all new businesses have had to have them for a few years now, but existing businesses are just starting to have to replace their signs. i guess the local liquor store wasn’t [...]

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All I can say is…wow.

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