About Me
My name is John. I work in an office.
Despite the fact that my employer makes full use of email, telephony, instant messaging and other forms of modern communication, my immediate manager seems to prefer to interact entirely via post-it note.
Like many managers, he is an idiot.
Three years ago I started saving his notes in a desk drawer. I’m not sure why.
This blog contains some of my favourites.
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Oh my God! You’re T. Coraghessan Boyle! Please send me an autograph and photo (preferably naked… the photo not the autograph). And don’t ignore me Boyle. I know where ya live.
Sound like a growing stalk of beans- watch it! The serial thing is still in style ya know and again you are a celeb.
Please tell me no monkey brains were eaten in the process of making this blog. TC Boyle, eh? I always wondered what happened to him.
This is so hilarious! Thank you for living through his idiocy so that the rest of us can laugh about it. You are a true hero.
I’m definitely coming back for more.
Thank you for sharing! Totally Hilarious!!!!
I felt that I was the only one subjected to an idiot boss and was having an exceptionally hard time dealing with his idiocracy. Thanks for helping me get through today, I’ll be nice to him and keep my job, but I am inspired to start a text blog… of all his idiot text.
I should start collecting the emails that my boss forwards to me that I already recieved because I was in the original sent list but she wouldn’t know because she never checks.
Thanks for these. They are priceless.
Me too! Hate it when I get forwarded an email twice. For goodness sake, just check the To/CC list before sending it… There are only like 10 names there!
This is great. I’m glad I stumbled upon your blog.
Soooooo hilarious!
I went through that phase before, when the internet at the office wasn’t working properly.
Your blog is great. Thanks for the entertainment.
May I use some of your blog posts as examples in the Writing 12 class I teach? They illustrate that lack of clarity and specificity may have unintended consequences.
Thanks.
Please, help yourself.
If you need more, just let me know. I quite literally have a desk drawer stuffed full of them.
Refreshingly excellent usage of ‘literally.’
I -heart- little yellow notes! But I don’t like them from my boss either!
Congrats of being Freshly Pressed! Your blog is my blog’s twin! I save notes from my students but my notes are not annoying.
question? Is your new found popularity going to get you in trouble at work? I hope not!
LOVE, LOVE, LOVE your blog! You’re hilarious! Keep it up!
OMG!!
It’s just… so incredible!!
I never read something so stupid…
It doesn’t make me wanna found a job after school X)
However, I’ve to tell you how much I laugth when I read your blog. I’ll be back, cause it make me happy =D
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ps: I’m French, so I’m sorry for my bad English =p
Thank god for freshly pressed… I dont know what I’d have to have googled to have found this blog otherwise! Brilliant! xx
gold! just had to say that.
I love this. Only wish I had the guts to post all the stupid things my “friends” bosses say. Because my boss is WONDERFUL! Seriously she is. Do you believe me? I’ll never tell.
Keep up the good work!
What’s most funny is that if your boss re-read his notes, he probably wouldn’t see the humor or the lack of clarity. So true of management – if you have the ability to do, that doesn’t mean that you are necessarily suited to directing others to do. Too many managers are barely keeping their own stuff together and completely unable to step back and really letting their direct reports thrive.
Good luck!
I’ve just found this blog really amusing. Keep on posting your boss’ crazy post-it notes. Btw, I’m a post-it girl, too hahahaha
this blog is EPIC!
Congrats on being Freshly Pressed.
If ever I needed a new blog to subscribe to, this is it.
Keep posting those little gems.
Great blog and the titles for each post are a terrific hook. I want to see a picture of your desk drawer with the stack of the stickies!
genius – what a fabulously creative blog! I have had many ass hole bosses over the years – luckily I have a very nice one now!!
I agree with sweatybetty, take a picture of the drawer! This is my new favorite blog. Thanks for showcasing how someone can take something as simple as a Post-It Note and turn it into passive aggressive warfare.
It’s been a while since I have had so many out-loud chuckles! Thanks for saving what seemed to be detritus, because they are really golden nuggets!!
Oh I just laughed fr a good 5 minutes reading this! I look forward to more!
I love your blog! Keep it up please, so you can keep making me laugh!!!!
I loved it. Your frankness/courage is appreciated.
Congrats on Freshly Pressed! I’m so glad you were because I otherwise would not have found you. You are my new favorite chuckle of the day! THANKS!
OMG! So glad you got “Freshly Pressed.” (Congratulations!) I needed to laugh today. Your blog is hilarious; I subscribed. I agree, your boss is an idiot. Thanks for sharing.
Your site is hilarious. I found it as I was quickly fading out during a lecture, needless to say it had me and those around me cracking up for the last 15 min or so of class. Please keep it up…
This is the most hilarious blog I’ve never seen. I officially declare myself your fan!!
Beth (Barcelona-Spain)
You are my new favorite person! This reminds me of Office Space and the fax machine…too bad you can’t beat the crap out of Post-its (or your boss) with a bat!
the best things are always communicated via post it note!
so efficient, so direct! haha.
thanks for sharing
So funny!
O-M-G this is the most hilarious thing ever! Sadly, because I could be posting these same notes. I feel like you work for the same boss I do. Totally brilliant idea for a blog! Bravo! I’ve got to go read more, but just wanted to tell you I will continue to come visit anytime I need a laugh.
Hi John,
This is just sooo hilarious. I cracked up every time. Thanks for making this. So sorry about your boss
Great blog to “hang out” on. thanks.
Hello there! I just wanted to let you know that I really enjoy your blog and am thus giving you the Versatile Blogger Award! Keep up the good work!
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Are you making this up as you go along?
So funny! I am so glad that I found your site!
What a novel idea for a blog–I love it!
These are great! I can’t stop laughing.
Laughed out loud. But I have to ask, how do you get away with it? I would think some brown-noser would tattle.
A brilliant concept. Love the blog!
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Manager woes are a common epidemic… Love the hilarious take on it! LOL =))
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Where are you John? Please don’t tell us your boss stopped posting the notes!!
These are priceless!
I completely love your blog and those notes and encourage you to post more. I was litterally laughing so hard i was holding my belly. So please. I love those (yes i already started ot share your link around, for my friends to laugh a good time). Thanks a lot to you (and your manager ) to make us laugh
Today my stupid boss bought a new cell phone. Last night he dropped his in his pool. That should have been the end of it. It wasn’t. He put his phone in the dryer thinking it would fix it. Now he’s out a phone and his dryer needs servicing to remove the tiny shards of glass when the phone screen smashed apart.
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Congrats you have been awarded
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Love your blog! Very funny!
I have nominated you for the Kreativ Blogging award – congrats!
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I love this blog. Your boss’s stupidity makes great posts, surprisingly. Cheers.
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I tagged you in a post!
Great blog! Thanks for sharing.
This is awesome. I’ll be perusing this tomorrow at work for sure.
i love this blog so much. i should not read it at work as i can’t stop laughing. your boss is a dingbat.
Hilarious! Thanks for sharing and letting us all laugh at your unfortunate situation. If I had a boss like that I would have to staple his next post-it note to his mouth!
P.S. What happened to the real post-its?
I must admit, I have never laughed so hard at post-it-notes before. Well done.
I concur… love this blog!
I’m gonna pee myself!
awesome sauce! you can probably do a small one-man show with these post-it notes series
Your boss is genius. You should leave him a post-it note saying so.
I nominated you for The Liebster Award. Your blog makes me laugh out loud. http://thethirtyyearoldme.wordpress.com/2012/12/02/yowzaliebster-award-nomination/
I laughed so hard I hurt. Thanks for this blog and please post the rest of your post it collection.
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This is a great idea. Funny stuff!
Oh dear! Rarely have I stumbled upon a such consistence of hilaiousness. Kudos, and keep up the excellent work! Absolutely worth unintentionally snorting out one’s coffee through ones nostrils…
Hi John, I have nominated you for the Sunshine award at
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This is one of the cleverest, funniest blogs I’ve ever come across…it is hysterical, and I can see how it could be so, so true…wow…they always say truth is stranger than fiction…perhaps its also funnier too!
The notes are priceless. I cannot decide whether they are the product of an excellent imagination, or if your boss actually got promoted by mistake
I am an accountant but not your steroetypical accountant. My stereotypical accountant boss uses printer/copy papier and highlighters to draft financial masterpieces which could easily be done in excel. He calls these number artworks “hand jobs”. How do they get to be bosses?
These are hilarious! Are they actually real?!?!
Where are your posts!!! Get to work!