Passive Aggressive Notes

Post-it Notes are the Most Cowardly Form of Communication

As a rule, stickies are a passive aggressive vehicle to ruinous relationships. (I need to be reminded of this sometimes.) Granted, there are exceptions to every rule.

Here are my three fundamental issues regarding sticky-notes:

• Anonymity. When authors are anonymous, as one can plainly see when visiting any open-access internet forum, they feel licensed to say things that they otherwise would not say.
• Futility. In my experience, the likelihood of an argument being won when fought via sticky-note approaches zero. All who engage in a sticky-note wars are losers in the end.
• False Friendship. So much hate is crammed into one those stickies, masquerading as sweetness, that it is difficult to reconcile the a relationship after a serious exchange has taken place.

Here are few of my favorite examples from passiveaggressivenotes.com:











Here is another prime example of passive aggression from Pan Beezley in The Office:

Maybe, if you're lucky, I'll tell you the story of why I left Monticello, apartment 27.

Until then,
Anonymous