Revel in the ten cruelest workplace Post-it notes ever
You’d think that with the near-universal adoption of email, sales of Post-it notes would have fallen off a cliff. After all, who’d walk across the office to leave a handwritten message when they can just fire an email from their desks?
But actually, no. Sales of the little welcome-back fairies are still around the $1 billion mark. There’s even a new Post-it app collaboration with the digital organisation tool, Evernote.
But we’re not here to pay tribute to the longevity of this sticky star of stationery. Nope. We’re here to celebrate its most spectacular misuses.
Meet ten messages that will make you laugh, groan or maybe even suffer Post-it Traumatic Stress Disorder.
Guaranteed to work, because we’ve all Googled something we shouldn’t, haven’t we?Aggressive. Personal. Works better on men than women.The note-giver can’t even be bothered to use punctuation in this invitation to a termination meeting.The word ‘Dave’ is hugely additive here. ‘Daves’ probably have not very nice porn.This works with everyone, because like search histories, at some level EVERYONE HAS SOMETHING TO HIDE.Because of the triple underlining, you’d have to suppose this refers to a particularly virulent form of STD.No-one has signed this. Like ‘Murder on the Orient Express’, the entire team is behind the crime.All the funnier when written in the easily identifiable handwriting of your line manager/HRD/OD advisor.Maybe they want to check something out. Or maybe they just want to chuck you out.Nothing communicates disrespect like an anonymous notification of a bereavement. In block capitals.
Andrew is the CEO of HRville. He is also Employer Brand Director of Blackbridge Communications, Editorial Director of Professionals in Law and an associate of The Smarty Train. Previously, he was the MD of TCS Advertising.
