When Your Desk Speaks

I came into my office to a note the other morning. The note read, "Is it me or does it smell like vomit in here?"
One of the maintenance staff members had left it for me. The sad thing was that it DID smell really, really bad in my office. I thought it smelled like spilled milk.
It turned out that the money tree that my friend left with me when she got a new job was rotting out. Is that a bad sign?