Passive aggressive (and note: ineffectual) workplace note leaving, which is also avoiding the gender stereotype of the female washer-upper. Could there ever be a better picture for summing up Swedish society in a single image?
1. Passive aggressive - oh yes. Definitely. Nobody wants to say anything rude or direct to anyone. Unless they paid a lot of money and THEN they feel perfectly entitled to say some strong words. Once I was in a bar with someone underage. When they showed their ID it took the bar staff a good while to muster up the courage to.....politely ask us if we might maybe, possibly consider leaving in a half hour after we had finished our drinks. Maybe. Sorry.
2. Note leaving. Well this is a classic passive-aggressive manouevre.
At work I used the wrong photocopier for a few weeks. A few weeks! Did anyone tell me? Well, eventually they had to, after I ignored the many, many carefully placed notes they stuck all over the office.
3. Avoiding pidgeonholing genders. It´s an artform, lemme tellya. (is pidgeonholing a verb? It is now.)
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