The only reason society even sort of works is because we have a thin veneer of civility constantly guarding our true intentions from one another. But if neighbors detest each other enough, that's when the paper and markers come out. Drama can be a musical of many notes, like this fed up manager leaving notes or this note escalation after a coworker stole lunches.
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Passive aggressive behavior can grind one's gears like none other. This woman decided to turn to the moral judges of Reddit's AITA community to see whether or not her being offended over her husband's holiday gift to her, was an overreaction. There were a whole lot of other gifts that he could've given her. This very well might've just been a recipe for disaster.
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This spicy bridezilla went and laid the passive aggressiveness on thick when it came to calling her friends out over some of them not bringing gift cards and/or gifts. The folks in the comments section would appear to be in agreement over the fact that she was just a bit out of line with this frame of thinking.
Passive aggressiveness is the worst. People just bottle up all that aggression and frustration, instead of letting it out in some healthy conversational discourse, and instead go about "avoiding the conflict" by creating tense and uncomfortable environments. These particular cases of passive aggression might just bring your blood to a boil. The passive aggressive roommate scenarios, especially.
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When met with the question "what's the nicest way to tell someone to F off" Redditors of all stripes threw their hats into the ring. From common sayings in other cultures, to random abuse they've gotten on the street, the world is bursting with semi-polite and professional ways to tell someone that you'd rather not have to ever see their face again.
When you're at work, you don't have the time or energy to get in a real fight, so people opt for more passive aggressive means of debasing each other. So here's all the things people have heard or told morons that amount to the sheer fury of the phrase "as per my last email." Work can be brutal.
Sometimes your passive aggressiveness or passionate unrest or mad confusion, boils over to such an extent that you need to yell at the world through a sign! You can just feel the rage coming through that person's stoic expression, as they broadcast on their sign, that they're so damn angry, they made a sign in the first place!
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You've gotta love office humor. In this case however, office humor meets its match in fiery waves of passive aggressiveness. What is so hard about having it out, and saying what you need to say, without hiding behind a sticky note to get the job done? Who knows. Conflict is tough.
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