from william, who notes: “sadly, management thought this was too severe, so it was replaced with a long whiny treatise on coffee etiquette.”
just severe enough
May 18, 2007 · 14 Comments
Categories: coffee · comic sans alert · not-so-veiled threats · workplace
14 responses so far ↓
captain flummox // May 19, 2007 at 10:30 am |
Leave it to management to launch their humor seeking missiles at what was a undoubtedly a tiny bright spot of wit in the office. Attention management: When you fail to appreciate the comedy in overstatement, you fail at life.
Maurik // May 21, 2007 at 4:48 pm |
Classic! I see these around my flat daily, if my camera wasn’t broken, I’d send some in!!
Jeremy Wells // May 22, 2007 at 2:28 pm |
HAHA, love it. I put one up in my office that started with “You too can make a fresh pot of coffee when you take the last cup. It’s easy!” followed by step-by-step instructions for making coffee and a promise for “next week : Removing the empty carafe from the heat.”
Alas, it too suffered the slings and arrows of managerial oversight.
The Liberal Avenger // May 23, 2007 at 8:55 am |
I’m kind of interested in seeing the long, whiny treatise on coffee etiquette.
passive agressive notes at Urban Monarch // May 23, 2007 at 10:10 am |
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Amy // May 23, 2007 at 11:29 am |
Lol.
That sounds like the kind of thing I would say!
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Steph Mineart // May 24, 2007 at 9:39 am |
My girlfriend has this problem with the guys at work – when she said something to one of them who breezed out leaving the empty pot on the heating element, he said “I don’t know how to make it. I’d just mess it up.”
She wanted to leave a note saying “your penis is not so large that it gets in the way of you making a new pot of coffee.”
phil // May 31, 2007 at 2:33 pm |
Comic Sans is never forgivable, even if used ironically.
psipsina // May 31, 2007 at 4:44 pm |
Wow, that’s the best note ever!
Amy // June 4, 2007 at 5:59 pm |
agreed, [with phil] am so not a fan of Comic Sans. Uck. Dirty font!
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