writes aimee in sellersburg, indiana: “my former boss used to leave these kind of notes posted on our work bulletin board constantly. it was a really boring job, so these little rays of sunshine made coming to work worth it.”

related: i don’t recall signing any bond/contact regarding your use of exclamation points!!!

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chris says this note was slipped under his apartment door  by one of his “typically passive-aggressive seattle neighbors.” and no, he adds, he hadn’t noticed. perhaps because the door was lacking in aggressively punctuated parenthetical statements!! (homeowners dues??)

personally, i am just luuurving the nice little call-and-response rhythm this note has got goin’ on. i eagerly [...]

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my favorite part of this two-page glory? the flash of insight on page 2: “i realize that last sentence is phrased as a question, but really it is more of a statement.”

related: care, it makes a difference

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related: seriously!?!

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spotted in a high foot traffic area of sausalito, california…

god bless the bay area.
related: gentrification is insanit(ar)y

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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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many offices, it seems, are a regular disneyland of what only appear to inanimate objects. the evidence? from frank in san francisco, a talking sponge:

from amy in annapolis, a talking toilet:

from ben in san antonio, a talking door:

and then there’s my favorite – from an anonymous submitter in washington, d.c. – a talking (and walking) [...]

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the inimitable jeff rubin passes along this note from the foyer of his park slope apartment building. yup, that’s what you think it is there on the floor. (perhaps a hapless victim of the bag-tampering deliquent?)

jeff says the shit was cleaned up when he checked a few hours later.
meanwhile, elsewhere in brooklyn, confusion still reigns.

related: [...]

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i love how the notewriter quickly abandons the initial pretense here, then completely throws in the towel with the last line.

thanks to adam in san francisco for this masterpiece!

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“the healthy companies committee” explains katherine in d.c., is the name of the office pep squad led by the sender of the e-mail. (”ironically,” she adds, “he does not seem to be able to deal with his frustration in a ‘healthy’ way.”)
the hilarity of this note is more subtle than say, a “thank you terry,” [...]

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found on the company dishwasher by pete m.at the bottom: “if you would like a lesson in telling the difference between the machine being on or not, please see reception.” (now that’s a power point presentation i’d love to see.)

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dispatches from an oh-so-common passive-aggressive battleground…

so, whose side are you on?

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