History Main / SuperficialSuggestionBox

** [[http://horsdutemps.centerblog.net/2101-gaston-lagaffe One strip]] has a coworker put an idea in the suggestion box, followed by Gaston revealing it hides a garbage chute and dumping the contents of his wastebasket in it. [[GeniusDitz This being Gaston]], it's ambiguous who put the fake box over the chute and why: Did Gaston think it was a good idea to hide the garbage chute with a fake box, or did he simply find out something management had done and not bother to tell his coworkers?

* "[[http://slimebeast.com/forum/stories/a-few-suggestions/ A Few Suggestions]]," the prequel to the ''WebOriginal/AbandonedByDisney'' series of tales, deals with one such suggestion box. The reason it's superficial? In the final tale, "[[http://slimebeast.com/forum/stories/corruptus/ Corruptus]]," the author alludes to the fact that the box he received still had the lock on it, indicating ''it was never even opened''.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Amphibia}}'' episode "Sprig vs Hop Pop", Sprig discovers that the suggestion box that Hop Pop set up so the kids can submit ideas on how to improve the farm has a fire pit hidden inside to burn their suggestions. He's so incensed that he challenges Hop Pop for control of the farm, and wins. By the end of the episode, [[CharacterDevelopment Sprig has learned]] [[TheChainsOfCommanding just how hard it is to actually run a farm]] and that seemingly good ideas don't always work in practice, [[CharacterDevelopment while Hop Pop has learned to actually listen to others' suggestions]], no matter how terrible they may be. He still burns most of the suggestions, but at least he reads them first.

* ''LightNovel/{{Overlord|2012}}'': Ainz installs a genuine suggestion box in Nazarick because his image as an infallible Supreme Being means that people are too afraid to approach him with complaints. He also uses it to anonymously submit his own ideas when he's not completely certain that Albedo and Demiurge will like them. However, Albedo seems to think he installed the box to weed out the traitors who would dare claim his rule is inadequate, and the first anonymous suggestion Ainz submits makes her so angry that [[ObliviousMockery she goes on a spiteful rant about how stupid it is]].

[[caption-width-right:350:Well, there's why the school system [[SuckySchool never changes]].[[note]]And if you have a complaint about it, you can put it in the complaint box... which is in the middle of a desert[[/note]]]]

[[caption-width-right:350:Well, there's why the school system [[SuckySchool never changes]][[note]]And if you have a complaint about it, you can put it in the complaint box… which is in the middle of a desert[[/note]].]]

The purpose of a suggestion box is so employees can enter their ideas for how to make the workplace better/more enjoyable for them. They can ask for things like altered work hours, what foods to put in the vending machines or serve in the cafeteria, and/or what days can be casual dress day at work. For the BadBoss, though...

* One issue of ''Tina's Groove'' (where the protagonist works in a diner) had a payoff similar to The Far Side strip where she and the other employees laugh over entries in the Suggestion Box.

* ''[[{{Series/Mash}} M*A*S*H]]''
** In the episode "[[Recap/MashS8E19MoraleVictory Morale Victory]]", Hawkeye and [=BJ’s=] first act as morale officers is having Klinger build a suggestion box for the camp. The suggestions they get include “burn down the camp” and “First Annual Naked Day”.
** A variation occurs when Klinger is at a BlackMarket and finds items stolen from him being sold there. He's told that if he has a complaint, he can go to the "Complaints Department"...which happens to be a large Korean thug death-glaring at him.

* In ''Series/{{The Office|US}}'' episode "[[Recap/TheOfficeUSS2E8PerformanceReview Performance Review]]," Michael insists on reviewing the suggestion box while his boss, Jan, is in the office conducting his performance review. Despite Michael's insistence that they [[BlatantLies read from the box weekly]], the first suggestion he pulls out regards [[Main/MillenniumBug Y2K]], five years prior to when the episode aired. Another is just a piece of gum thrown away in a sheet of paper. Finally, he pulls out a request for depression outreach, which Michael mocks, [[MoodWhiplash from an employee who killed himself a year prior]].

* A ''Magazine/MadMagazine'' article on How To Tell If You Work In A Sweatshop: The last guy to use the suggestion box hasn't been seen in days.'

* ''VideoGame/LEGOMarvelSuperHeroes2:'' One of Kang's [[CannedOrdersOverLoudspeaker Kang-nouncements]] is reassuring the citizens of Chronopolis his suggest box is actually a super hi-tech sophisticated system, and not that the notes are simply dumped into an endless abyss.

* ''WebVideo/{{Troopers}}'': In ''[[http://www.collegehumor.com/video/6604086/troopers-suggestion-box Suggestion Box]]'', the Darth Vader CaptainErsatz Dread Lord Sinister installs a suggestion box. Those troopers who are interested in maintaining good health (or just living) might wish to decline placing suggestions in the box.

* In WebVideo/MichaelReeves' "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIxaGgTY8UM I Hate Your Robot Ideas]]" Michael illustrates his disdain for viewer suggestions of robot ideas by setting up a machine that automatically screencaps and prints their suggestion directly into a shredder.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball:'' In "[[Recap/TheAmazingWorldOfGumballS5E10TheLoophole The Loophole]]," Gumball wants to complain to Miss Simian about the concept of homework, so she suggests he put it in the suggestion box. There's a suggestion box next to the classroom door that drops Gumball's suggestion right into a paper shredder. Gumball follows up by saying he wants to file a complaint, to which Miss Simian says to go to the Complaint Box. Cue a shot of a mailbox in the middle of a desert wasteland, with the bones of a student still gripping a letter sticking out of the mailbox lid.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Amphibia}}'' episode "Sprig vs Hop Pop," Sprig discovers that the suggestion box that Hop Pop set up so the kids can submit ideas on how to improve the farm has a fire pit hidden inside to burn their suggestions. He's so incensed that he challenges Hop Pop for control of the farm, and wins. By the end of the episode, [[CharacterDevelopment Sprig has learned]] [[TheChainsOfCommanding just how hard it is to actually run a farm]] and that seemingly good ideas don't always work in practice, [[CharacterDevelopment while Hop Pop has learned to actually listen to others' suggestions]], no matter how terrible they may be. He still burns most of the suggestions, but at least he reads them first.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Doug}}'': In "Doug And The Bluffington Five," when S.P.U.D. ([[FunWithAcronyms Students Protesting the Uniform Decision]]) hand Mr. Bone a stack of papers regarding their [[AntiSchoolUniformsPlot opinion on the decision]] to have the students of Beebe Bluff Middle School wear school uniforms, he gladly accepts them and pops them into "the ol' suggestion box," which is a paper shredder with "Suggestion Box" written on it.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''
** In the episode, "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS3E3WhenFlandersFailed When Flanders Failed]]," the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant has a suggestion box, but it's pretty clear that Mr. Burns ignores all the suggestions, using them as an excuse to mock his employees.
** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS17E18TheWettestStoriesEverTold The Wettest Stories Ever Told]]," Bart tells the tale of the Bounty, and Skinner made a suggestion box out of Martin's head -- the last guy who suggested a suggestion box.

[[caption-width-right:350:Well, there's why the school system [[SuckySchool never changes]].]]

** In the episode, "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS3E3WhenFlandersFailed When Flanders Failed]]," the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant has a suggestion but it's pretty clear that Mr. Burns ignores all the suggestions, using them as an excuse to mock his employees.

** A variation occurs when Klinger is at a BlackMarket and finds items stolen from him being sold there. He's told that if he has a complaint, he can go to the "Complaints Department"...and it pointed towards a large Korean thug death-glaring at him.

* ''[[{{Series/Mash}} M*A*S*H]]'': In the episode "[[Recap/MashS8E19MoraleVictory Morale Victory]]", Hawkeye and [=BJ’s=] first act as morale officers is having Klinger build a suggestion box for the camp. The suggestions they get include “burn down the camp” and “First Annual Naked Day”.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Amphibia}}'' episode "Sprig vs Hop Pop," Sprig discovers that the suggestion box that Hop Pop set up so the kids can submit ideas on how to improve the farm has a fire pit hidden inside to burn their suggestions. He's so incensed that he challenges Hop Pop for control of the farm, and wins. By the end of the episode, [[CharacterDevelopment Sprig has learned]] [[TheChainsOfCommanding just how hard it is to actually run a farm]] and that seemingly good ideas don't always work in practice, [[CharacterDevelopment while Hop Pop has learned to actually listen to others' suggestions]], no matter how terrible they may be.