“Passive-aggressive” doesn't even begin to describe it.
If there’s one thing I’ve learned from over a decade of writing a workplace advice column, it’s that people will do anything to avoid having an awkward conversation with their colleagues. Sometimes that means that they don’t bring up important topics at all, instead just letting problems go unaddressed while their frustration festers. Other times, it means they hint and sugarcoat rather than speak directly. And in other cases, well, they decide to leave notes.
Obviously, some communication by note can be efficient and even unavoidable in an office. If you need to warn people that the kitchen is cleaned out every Friday and leftovers will be tossed, a polite note on the fridge is a good way to convey that. But what’s interesting about the notes littering so many offices is how irritated—nay,—they are. “Please wash and put away dishes after using them” is reasonable.
I once had a staff member ask me to post a reminder to check that you weren’t taking someone else’s printing with your own. I did, and then came back to find it reworked with the same wording, but much, MUCH bigger font size, CAPITAL LETTERS, underlining, and many exclamation points. Obviously she didn’t think I had reflected the Epic Seriousness of the problem. I was very glad I hadn’t signed it because it looked totally crazed.
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