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
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
Tags: heart · los angeles · office fridge · rebuttals · spitting · thanks (but not really)
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?
Tags: california · office fridge · rebuttals · stealing · tea
victoria in foster city, california, says her brother taped this note to one of the kitchen cabinets in their mother’s house after her boyfriend took his own frozen chicken out of little brother’s grasp the night before. (just to clarify that mess of pronouns: it was victoria’s boyfriend’s chicken. not that it really matters.)
“he’s 17 [...]
Tags: family · not-so-veiled threats · rebuttals · siblings
if you’ve ever bought twizzlers from a vending machine, you probably know that there’s a good one-in-three chance that one tiny corner of the plastic packaging is gonna get stuck, and then (bang on the glass all you want) only yielding after an extra 75 cents is inserted. some folks, however, aren’t willing to condone [...]
Tags: CAPS LOCK · canada · office · rebuttals · smartass · stealing · toronto · vending
liza, a student at mississippi state university, was up late one night writing a paper when her roommate asked her to stop — the noise of her typing was keeping her up. “i had a paper to write and i didn’t think i was making enough noise to warrant moving my workstation outside, so, i [...]
Tags: meta · mississippi · noise · rebuttals · university
“there’s a lot of foot traffic at a certain computer lab at our university,” says our submitter in ypsilanti, michigan, “but it can only seat 30 at a time.” in order to (in theory) alleviate the problem, and in practice, to give waiting students some new clip art to focus their rage upon, the university [...]
Tags: actually totally reasonable · clip art catastrophe · facebook · im-speak · rebuttals · university
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]
Tags: connecticut · greenwich · money · not-so-veiled threats · office fridge · rebuttals · stealing · touching
our anonymous submitter sneakily snapped a photo of the whiteboard at a friend’s house in urbana, illinois.
related: oh sweetie, i love it when you talk dirty!
Tags: dishes · dishwasher · excessive underlining · illinois · rebuttals · roommates · signed with love · urbana · whiteboard
our anonymous submitter says his coworkers were taking stacks of paper towels from the bathroom and putting them in kitchen. “HR evidently does not agree with this practice and decided to enact a one-towel play in the break-room kitchen,” he says. (the office billing manager added the follow-up on the towels’ behalf.)
related: this is not [...]
Tags: anthropomorphism · kitchen · office supplies · rebuttals
writes our anonymous submitter from kentucky: “I work at a gym. I was checking the women’s locker room to make sure it wasn’t a fetid stinkpit (it wasn’t) when I saw three of these lying on the counter. i went to throw them out and found a whole mess of them in the trashcan, too.”
related: [...]
Tags: gym · kentucky · rebuttals · spelling and grammar police · stealing
at stanly’s office in houston, the team has whiteboard they update everyday with their accomplishments. after accidentally erasing his update, stanly’s boss left him this message.
of course, stanly had to return the gesture.
related: the post-it wars
Tags: houston · office · rebuttals
faydra in gainesville, florida lives in an apartment complex she describes as “a step above dorm living” — 85 girls total, all of them coming and going at all hours. faydra’s next door neighbors kicked things off (with the most frightening clip art extravaganza ever) and things devolved from there. in chronological order:
related: a fancy [...]
Tags: CAPS LOCK · clip art catastrophe · excessive underlining · exclamation-point happy! · florida · neighbors · noise · rebuttals · smiley
thanks to rusty in decatur, georgia, who spotted this lovely exchange on the door of his apartment complex’s parking garage.
Tags: exclamation-point happy! · neighbors · oh snap · parking · rebuttals
long-simmering roommate issues comes to a head in toronto…
(green ink is being kicked out by black ink.)
Tags: excessive underlining · not-so-veiled threats · rebuttals · roommates · smiley · spelling and grammar police · toronto · touching
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 [...]
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
thanks to gina in flemington, n.j. for forwarding along these e-mails between a coworker and her former roommate regarding a $22 gas bill. click to enlarge!
Tags: e-mail · jersey · just wondering · money · rebuttals · roommates
presenting, for your analysis, this anonymous contribution from a hair salon in bettendorf, iowa (pop. 32,394). for the scatologically inclined vandal — and for putz’s owner — the unconscious issues at play appear to be anything but borderline. college psych majors: care to address which stage of psychosexual development is associated with passive-aggressiveness?
related: i can’t [...]
Tags: dogs · freudian shit · iowa · office · rebuttals · shit
as a little weekend bonus, i bring you this post from the smith daily jolt’s alumnae forum. yes, it’s long.
Tags: TLDR · bathroom · e-mail · garbage · just an asshole · martyr complex · money · not wrong · posted online · rebuttals · roommates · sig o · smoking · that's a fire hazard
this note, from the science library of washington and lee university in lexington, virginia, has a bit of a backstory.
explains our anonymous submitter: “here, you can reserve a carrel for the entire school year, with two students to a carrel. our honor system is such that people leave their books and belongings at their carrel [...]
Tags: martyr complex · rebuttals · signed with love · spelling and grammar police · university · virginia
joshua brings us this amazing pair of notes from his apartment building in philly.
the backstory: “a bulk package of cat food (probably 20 or so cans) was delivered and sat in the hallway for about 4 or 5 days. we could see what it was because the sides of the package were cardboard, but [...]
Tags: cats · neighbors · not-so-veiled threats · philadelphia · rebuttals · smiley · stealing · thanks (but not really) · that's illegal