“Corporate Cringe”: 30 Of The Best Workplace Memes And Posts Shared By This Dedicated Instagram Page

It's no secret that everyone would be much more satisfied if they ditched their ordinary routines, took off and flew somewhere to sip cocktails full-time. But sadly, not a lot of us can organize something like that, as we're quite literally tied to our responsibilities.

We're taught to strive to achieve the best to eventually get hired at a company that'll completely burn us out, both mentally and physically, but will promise to somehow compensate with its great pay. Most of us are already familiar with that "corporate world is bad" narrative – I mean, not a lot of folks enjoy being awakened at such an early hour to have to fight the traffic to get to the place where you get treated rather poorly by your self-centered boss.

While it's significantly important to maintain a good work culture, a lot of jobs still struggle with unhealthy environments. Even nowadays employees get discriminated against left, right and center, whether that's based on their gender, race, age, disability or any other aspects – it's quite common for people not to feel included and appreciated.

Moreover, many companies stick to this fake tale and advertise themselves as "families" where, in fact, half of the office is filled with ill-mannered and backstabbing people that'll use any opportunity to throw each other under the bus. It seems that this toxic competitiveness is really useless and is not helping anyone, so why are so many people this bad at collaborating with each other?

Bored Panda has reached out to the creator of the page and asked them to reveal what inspired them to make the account: “It was my short and terrible stint at PwC. I was there for about a year and a half but it felt like five. It was my first job out of college and I absolutely dreaded my existence there. The new job charm quickly wore off and I was thrown into my first busy season averaging 60-70 hour weeks for about 4 months straight. I'd wake up at 5 AM, and be back home by 8 PM. If I was lucky, I'd have 30 minutes to myself to eat dinner, watch a show, and then immediately go to bed to repeat the next day."

"The work environment was also very clearly not suited to my personality or lifestyle at all. I'm a more introverted and private person, especially in the workplace. I also enjoy drawing a fine line in the sand regarding my personal life and work life. The problem was that the work environment encouraged and unofficially demanded employees blend the two together and be BFFs with each other inside and outside the workplace and share everything about each other. I thought this was incredibly intrusive and my coworkers would constantly share things that were uncomfortable to hear at work.”

BP then wondered whether the author has an opinion as to why the corporate life tends to be so toxic, to which they said: "I don't want to say ALL corporate life is toxic, because there are definitely some companies that actually get it and I was fortunate enough to work for one. I think what leads to a lot of the toxicity that we see in corporate life stems from the fact that a majority of people (mostly the older generations) tie their purpose solely to their employment. Work is their life and their personality. Take away their job and they genuinely wouldn't know what to do or who they are. So because their purpose is their job, any little thing that can be perceived as a "threat" to their job is responded to with hostility. If there are faults, they take it as a personal failing both in and outside the workplace, which I think is incredibly foolish as your work does NOT define who you are."