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The original was posted on /r/tifu by /u/phatbear_cocomonkey on 2026-07-10 06:20:40+00:00.

TIFU (Obligatory "this was actually 2 days ago") by writing a passive-aggressive message on our department whiteboard.

Backstory: For the last 4 months, I, 40F, have been doing little doodles on the department whiteboard to add a little whimsy and color to our area once a week. Usually, just 10 minutes of my downtime (I tend to have a fair amount of time on my hands when everything is running well) , sometimes a little more for more detailed doodles. Two goblins fishing, a gnome in a duck shaped pool floatie with a cocktail, a very pinchy crab, a girl in a sun hat flying a kite with her dog at her side...things that just made people smile. Over the course, I had several people come up and tell me how much they loved coming through each week to see what new thing I had drawn. I didn't do it for attention or to waste company time, I just needed a micro expression of my creative side.

Which brings me to this past monday. I didn't have a lot of time that day. We were missing a key person, so I settled on a simple happy pig wallowing in a mud puddle. Took me like 5 minutes. The person we were missing was the only one on our shift who was trained for a certain job... which piled up in his absence. Third shift rolls around, and of course, the job we couldn't do on our shift fell to them. Upset by the amount of work left to them, the supervisor sees my little doodle and decides it is somehow to blame. In an email to the department head, he said something along the lines of "They got time to draw but not do 'A-B-C'" blah blah blah...and thus the decree came down that no more doodles would be permitted on that whiteboard.

I WAS PISSED! Mostly, because the cluless knob essentially accused me of doing my doodles INSTEAD of doing work. I take great pride in my work ethic and made very deliberate decisions about when, what, and how long I doodled to avoid it being seen as a problem. Once a week, only in my down time and obviously safe for work imagery. With an equal amount of careful consideration, I crafted a message for the miserable man who squashed our little bit of sunshine. It went a little something like this: "The moldy, wet blanket that blames my little doodle for their problems can go suck lemons. May they all be as bitter as your joyless, shriveled soul!" It was the nicest way to say "eff you" I could think of. My direct supervisor saw it, laughed, and walked on. The next afternoon, however, the department head had seen it and flipped sh!t...on my direct supervisor. If I were writing a tale of fiction, this next part would have been too dumb to even consider. The head ASKED MY SUPER WHO WROTE IT! My super covered for me but told me after that the head claimed the handwriting didn't look like a girls so he wasn't sure it was me. Thank goodness for my sloppy calligraphy, I guess lol. The head wants to write me up for creating a hostile work environment but no one actually saw me write it so the rest of my shift co-workers have been repeating "wasn't me, don't know who did". I don't feel I created the hostility... I just reflected it. At this point, though, I have kicked the hornets' nest, and it seems they are more confused than anything, so I am content to leave it lie for the time being.

TL;DR Supervisor of different shift blamed my doodle for the amount of work HE had and got my weekly doodles shut down. I responded by leaving a message that referred to him as a moldy, wet blanket.