What’s up with the passive-aggressiveness lately? Seems to be getting worse and worse, anywhere you go. For instance, today at work I counted 4 separate passive-aggressive signs in the breakroom alone. One was about filling the paper towel container daily, one was about not dumping coffee grounds into the sink, another had to do with stinky foods in the fridge, and my favorite of course was the one about remembering to pay for your cup of coffee or tea. The thing I like about this particular sign is that it shows a big picture of a tree with the cross-out symbol through it and dollar bills floating around, then it says “No Money Tree Here!! If you use any of these supplies [lists not only coffee and cups, but ‘swizzle sticks’ which are ridiculously cheap] PAY EACH TIME!” Hilarious. Look, I don’t drink coffee so don’t use cups, ‘swizzles,’ sugar packs- whatever, but that is so fucking pathetic and cheap to make such a big deal out of it. Yeah, people need to pay for their coffee but just put a sign that says Coffee $.35 or whatever it is. The tree with money falling off of it is a bit much. And seriously, swizzle sticks? I can’t get over that. Who cares. I almost put a post it note with $5 into the box saying I don’t use your supplies but think you must need this money really badly, hence the effort you put into making the beautiful poster. No thanks on the coffee, but I’ll be happy to pay you for not being a petty idiot.
I should have taken a picture of the sign. Maybe it’s the pettiness that bothers me more than the passive-aggressiveness… I’m not quite sure. Yeah, that’s probably true.
March 8th, 2011 at 12:56
That’s worse than the sign in the bathroom telling us how not washing our hands is gross and irresponsible.