Entries Tagged as 'oh no you didn't'

“that’s what she said”

November 18th, 2008 · 190 Comments

spotted by randi in charlotte, north carolina, this one’s straight out of the michael scott playbook.

related: to the victor goes the bile

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Tags: faint praise · north carolina · now that's management · oh no you didn't · spelling and grammar police

let’s not mince words

October 12th, 2008 · 91 Comments

our anonymous submitter reports that a certain less-than-collegial colleague had the gall to dash off this note while the perfume-wearer in question was standing at the photocopier less than five feet away. and, our submitter adds: “she did not attempt at all to disguise her handwriting.”

related: fight or flight

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Tags: CAPS LOCK · california · exclamation-point happy! · more aggressive than passive · odor · office · oh no you didn't

fight or flight

July 28th, 2008 · 195 Comments

in terms of the appropriate sympathetic nervous system response, an e-mail subject line like “big favor” is kinda the modern cubicle-dweller’s equivalent of “saber-tooth tiger outside cave!”

(note: this e-mail, our seattle-area submitter says, is from the very same person who brought us this.)
related: perhaps it’s time for a little group therapy?

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Tags: all-staff e-mail · irregular capitalization · odor · office · oh no you didn't · seattle · thanks (but not really) · vomit

a matter of taste

June 2nd, 2008 · 200 Comments

christine in san rafael, california says sol food is “literally the best thing about san rafael.” one reason? the restaurant “keeps this gem of a note right where it belongs — on display in the glass cabinet outside the front door, where most restaurants would keep a menu.”
seeing as the note has been up [...]

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Tags: "helpful" advice · a matter of taste · bay area · california · marin · not-so-veiled threats · oh no you didn't · puerto rico · restaurant · san rafael