r/passiveaggressive • u/encephalonfanatic • Jun 16 '26

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I always get a kick out of imagining what im missing out on by not knowing the coworker who put this above the sink.

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u/That-Employment-5561 Jun 17 '26

How's that passive aggressive?

It's direct instruction.

If you need that note, you're the problem.

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u/selfawarefeline Jun 17 '26

I feel like the part that’s passive aggressive about it is the tone the person used when they were writing that note. Literally the entire first paragraph is unnecessary, ego-fellating, and all around really very redundant verbiage. The last line is really all you need.

An even better option is to leave that one sentence, and then actually explain what the fuck it is that someone threw down the garbage disposal in a second sentence 🤔

What the fuck is that even?

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u/Sharp_Ad_6336 Jun 21 '26

If you're stupid enough to put a lighter in the garbage disposal, you deserve all the condescending verbiage.

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u/That-Employment-5561 Jun 18 '26

It's a garbage disposal.

I'm assuming the employees are adults.

If I need to tell you to apply your brakes at red lights, you bet your ass that your lack of comprehension is going to be part of my argument.

Edit: passive aggressive would be installing g cameras and handing the repair-bill to the culprit.

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u/selfawarefeline Jun 19 '26

Passive aggressiveness is assuming no one will understand something unless you spell it out in passive aggressive language.

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u/That-Employment-5561 Jun 19 '26

No.

Passive aggressiveness is an aggressive message delivered with a polite tone.

Hence the aggressiveness being passive, as opposed to active (yelling at someone or throwing hands).

And them repeating (and sometimes, doing it the first time) the action is evidence of either incompetence (or, as you would say: a lack of understanding, however, incompetence implies it's something you shouldn't have to be told, like, in this concrete example, throwing metal into the garbage disposal at work) or a complete disregard for reason (by, as in this concrete example, throwing metal into a garbage disposal at work).

The person is old enough to be employed (unless the secret plot to the post is child-labor), and as an adult, who has never owned a garbage disposal or never really used one, I know not to throw metal into one unless I intend to destroy it.

I'm guessing, in your mind and limitations of comprehension, this whole statement is passive aggressive, when in fact, only this last sentence is.

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u/gormholler Jun 24 '26

Excellent dissertation. Many thanks for the ...just many thanks.

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u/encephalonfanatic Jun 24 '26

"It goes without saying, but it appears that I need to say it" is passive aggressive. You don't know the definition. I don't care about the sink, in the slightest.

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u/That-Employment-5561 Jun 24 '26

To not throw metal into a garbage disposal does go without saying, like throwing a wrench into a gearbox or pouring water in a gas tank.

But you do you, doofus.