June 06 2007
You Could’ve Had My Eye Out…
posted by Ana Samways at 3:06 pmAn email from a company’s Health and Safety department to all staff warning of the catastrophe caused by a glass bottle of juice falling on ceramic tiles. And elsewhere, a woman emails her colleagues to ask that they don’t bounce on her chair. Both written with a straight face…
More note nonsense at Passive-Aggressive Notes.
If you have any examples of passive-aggressive note writing in New Zealand, send them to us and we’ll rustle up a prize for you, and then pass them onto this blog.
June 7th, 2007 at 10:29 am
Don’t you love how the first note has bolded ’shatters’ for dramatic impact.
It also inspires the question – do shoes actually have souls? Existentialist office safety…a new trend perhaps?
June 8th, 2007 at 11:29 am
That site is brilliant – I blogged about The All Blacks’ passive agressive note a coupla weeks ago
June 8th, 2007 at 3:32 pm
My goodness, the clip art and bad spelling in those All Black notes make them classic passive-aggressive examples.
I hate clip art…
June 9th, 2007 at 8:29 pm
Not a note but a conversation.
Her: “There’s a car in the carpark that isn’t parked right up to the kerb. It’s the brown one.” [Sends significant look my way.]
Me: “Oh. That’s probably mine.” [keeps working]
Her: [Airily] “Yes, I had to do a million point turn to get out of the carpark because it was sticking out so far.” [Laughs]
Me: “Right.” [stops working] [Awkward silence broken only by the mental (choose your own interpretation) daggers coming my way.] “Should I park it further in next time?”
Her: “Well, that would be convenient…but only if that’s okay with you.”
Arragh!