Work advice: I did a crossword puzzle at work. My colleague's reaction has floored me.

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Dear Good Job,

I work at a community theater and love my job (I’m certainly not doing it for the money!). We offer a coat check for our patrons, and we keep a stash of books and magazines for staff to peruse during downtime. Recently, someone contributed several magazines, which included crossword puzzles, one of which I partially completed.

Several days later, I walked into our lunch room and saw that someone had torn out the page and posted it on our community bulletin board with the message “DO NOT WRITE IN THE MAGAZINES” scrawled over it in red Sharpie! I was stunned by how aggressive it was, and later that day, my co-worke