kasey in tucson spotted this orgy of vending-machine notes in the anthropology department of the university of arizona. says kasey, “they just keep adding up. i think the pepsi man is either amused by them or just doesn’t care.” perhaps…or maybe he’s just hanging back until he has enough material for his dissertation on non-verbal [...]

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at this college dorm in seattle, our anonymous submitter says each floor ordinarily has one male and one female bathroom. however, because this particular floor happens to have an overwhelming number of female residents, both bathrooms were deemed female-only…much to some guy’s chagrin.

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related: losing lisa

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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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“vet school is a sea of studying, testing, drinking and most of all: DRAMA,” reports an anonymous vet-to-be in ames, iowa. (in other words, it’s just like gossip girl.) of course, as new york magazine reports this week, facebook is taking run-of-the-mill classroom sniping to a whole new level of micro-bitchiness. if you have the [...]

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this series comes to us from an anonymous office worker in sydney, australia, who explains: “despite our multi-million dollar profits, some people in our office are really attached to our company’s bottom line.”

UPDATE: the saga continues!
related: excuse me, i believe you have my stapler

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this fridge saga (from a boston-area university lab building) comes to us with a confession on the part of the anonymous submitter: she started it, sort of.
it all began when she discovered that her salad dressing had been mysteriously disposed of. sad that she had to eat dry lettuce for lunch, she left a note [...]

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my own neighborhood of park slope, brooklyn has high concentrations of dogs, babies, crazies and bloggers, which makes for a heady brew of incredibly well-documented passive-aggressiveness. certain notes (like this long-running series) show up in my inbox over and over again. i’ve gotten various iterations of this note from no fewer than six different [...]

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