The more experience you have in the corporate world, the more you come to realize that there’s no such thing as a ‘perfect’ workplace. There will always be something to complain about. Whether it’s substandard office coffee, endless meetings, confusing remote-work policies, micromanaging bosses, and chronic exhaustion. But you’re not alone. Nearly everyone in the corporate world runs into similar issues.
The ‘Memes Off The Clock’ Instagram page shares some of the funniest and most relatable memes about the ups and downs of office life. We’ve collected some of the top ones to share with you, Pandas. Scroll down and upvote your faves. Remember to send these pics to your colleagues… and we dare you to forward them to your boss!
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Higher education courses should be free!! Why wouldn’t we want people to be qualified and educated for different professions?! More doctors!! More architects!! More teachers!! More mechanics!! Just more!!
Sorry, the world does not need more architects, unless they start living in the monstrosities they design
Load More Replies...At 8 years old, I smeared dog poop on my face for $30. My mom was furious, but I got the cash.
Lyric I heard from a folk singer: "A car for the job, and a job for the car..."
There is no such thing as "Higher Education"! People need to learn a trade, and we need to educate people on how to teach people, weather it be in education (basic living skills), an electrician, a pipefitter or a millwright. Idiocracy will come sooner, not later if we don't teach our kids trade work. How do you think we got here?
Trades vs. heigher education (as a social investment): false dichotomy much?
Load More Replies...When I worked in person, I was close enough to me boss to do that. Now that I'm remote, he lives on the other side of the country and I see him twice a year, so I would feel weird.
Worker burnout is a major problem. A survey conducted by Deloitte found that 77% of surveyed American professionals experienced burnout at their current job, while over half admitted that this has happened more than once.
The vast majority of respondents said that the stress and frustration that they face at work has a negative impact on their quality of work, as well as their personal relationships.
Fun to use it in a positive way, just to mess with people. "With all due respect, I think you're awesome." Then watch them do a double take.
Load More Replies..."No offence, but..." followed by something that makes you glad they weren't trying to be offensive.
Similar to the British "I'm not being funny, but ...". You know it's about to go down
You either too shy or too friendly, the balance is impossible when you're new.
Listen you can either be the awkward new character, or the new fan favorite.
Therefore you're stuck in a job you hate so you don't have to go through it again
It’s a common misconception that just because you enjoy the work you do, you’ll never feel tired. However, 87% of the working professionals who participated in the Deloitte survey said that they were passionate about their jobs, but 64% revealed that they’re frequently stressed. In other words, being passionate about what you do does not make you immune to stress.
“ sorry I was voice messaging and saw my (insert something you love a whole lot, like baby or dog, sometimes spouse) and started talking to them. I was not calling you stinky tho .. certainly not “ and end it with a😂 and everything will be fine
Load More Replies...LMAO my voice picks up random things and inserts them - snippets from conversations going on around me or from the television. I have learned to proofread before hitting that SEND button. (of course I learned the hard way)
Imagine accidentally sending this to your boss.. “What do you mean your job stinks?”
They don't like icebreakers (a question) so they said their weekend highlight was not having them
Load More Replies...If she's been out of office for a while, those emails are no longer relevant. No sense in wasting time sorting through them.
I just nuked all1596 saved emails, then went and dug through the trash for 3 I needed to keep. I feel refreshed and relieved. And this wasn't work email. I don't even have any of those.
Meanwhile, most respondents felt that their employers weren’t doing enough to prevent burnout. However, the solution doesn’t lie in just having super hip well-being programs to destress your employees.
Ideally, there should be a workplace culture that actively fights back against chronic exhaustion, demotivation, and burnout.
This is the case for most companies. The company would run fine without the CEO, but would not run fine without the worker. But if the company goes under because of bad management then most times the CEO walks away rich while the workers don't. And yet as a society we still think this is OK.
In my opinion, the janitors are the most essential worker in EVERY workplace. Without them every workplace/business/office would come to a greasy slimmy halt after 2 weeks. I work as an engineer and I greatly appreciate the janitorial department!
Load More Replies...So you have the same level of education, experience, personnel skills, business contacts, technical expertise, etc. as your boss then? Plus you can use a rudimentary computer program? Well then how come you're not the boss?
I literally gave my former boss the "Excel for Dummies" book do that she could at least learn to do the basics (e.g. simple cell formula to subtract one cell from another)
Maybe they should hire CEOs like we elect politicians with term limits.
OK. Sure. But wait until you have to make difficult decisions - like who do I have to fire, when head office tells them that they have to lay off 10% of the workforce.
After head office paid the consultant 10 times the money your boss makes to 'advise' them.
Load More Replies...The more interesting question is: if Matthew McConaughey can look like this in a zoom call, how we could look like in a Hollywood Movie?
Matthew McConaughey has that confidence from good looks that permits him to not care if he looks like an aging white woman.
You realize there is no guarantee that someone else will hire you, right? months later I'm still looking after I quit my last job for bad working conditions.
Having supportive bosses who genuinely care about their employees’ issues and growth is a godsend. But that requires being well-versed in leadership and management and having a lot of empathy. If you’re aiming for profit at the cost of your employees’ physical and mental health, you’re going to drive away your top talent. Your staff needs proper rest to recharge and do their jobs well.
Always...and Forever...I absolutely wish I could go back to seeing this movie in the theater. It was such a simpler time when I did not carry the burdens of that same childhood as I do today.
I always have so many things I plan to do during the weekend. And 99% of the time I don't do any of them. Then I feel bad about it. Yet I repeat the pattern the following weekend...
I like having the weekends to worry about my own stuff. If I have a week's vacation, I'll be able to worry better.
If you force everyone to constantly work overtime and pile unreasonable workloads on their shoulders, you’ll only get substandard results. If efficiency and good results are your actual priorities, then you have to be open-minded.
Well-rested, happy people who feel like they’re doing purposeful tasks will get you there faster than a frustrated and exhausted group who feels undervalued. Wonderful things happen if you genuinely care about the individuals who work for you. Loyalty should be a two-way street.
At the hospital i work on, the minimum number of nurses required for strike period is higher that the actual number of nurses every day.
We have a full company meeting to go over the previous and new years goals. They brag about the call volume increasing by 4,000 more than the previous year yet we still have the same size staff each year, and this happens every year. They wonder why people are burnt out. check on your customer service rep friends, we are not okay.
There are only five of us that run a restaurant I work at. Two of them are the owners and one of them has been there for longer than I have and I still have to tell her how to do things. We are desperate. I feel this.
I never signed emails, if you can't read the header, you probably can't read the rest of the message.
According to Deloitte, corporations ought to prioritize relationships instead of rewards. It’s also essential to assess what the actual needs of your employees are. That way, management can plan how they can best support the entire workforce, as well as separate departments and individual specialists.
It’s also a huge plus if management can make the work processes more meaningful and fulfilling. People can move mountains if they believe in the cause and the values of their company.
That looks like Vsauce, but it also looks like he is in a movie. What's going on here.
It was in his series Mind Field, very high production value
Load More Replies...cover letters are pathetic. Everyone knows you are applying because you need the money and think that you meet the requirements. I have started delegating that s**t to ChatGPT now.
I hate it when they ask, why do you want to work for us? Because I need a forking job!! Of course, I can't say that so have to come up with dumb sh!t.
Load More Replies...I wrote a cover letter 20+ years ago and still use it. I tweak it slightly for each job, but there's no way in hell I'm writing a new one every time.
Yeah, because it's ridiculous. You basically write a work of fiction and they don't care anyway, so why?
I worked with a guy who really liked to talk. Nothing was sweeter to his ears than the sound of his own voice. He once started telling me about changing a motor in his car, and, just as an experiment, I just let him drone on for TWO HOURS!! I did not say a word, except for the occasional, "Uh huh", or "Oh really". After the 2 hours I put up my hands to stop him and said, "Ron, do you not see the blood running out of my ears?!? You have not shut your mouth for over TWO HOURS! WTF is wrong with you?!?" He kinda laughed & shrugged his shoulders and said, "Well, between my wife and daughter, I usually don't get to talk much at home."
That moment when you intentionally just check out of the whole thing.
Some other important challenges that employees face at work, according to Indeed, include a lack of communication and poor transparency, as well as a lack of recognition for hard work. Many workers also find that their managers don’t know how to motivate them and help them be more engaged in their daily tasks.
I'm one of those that I NEED an office environment; I have ADHD, and being at home is just way too distracting for me. Being in an office reduces the distractions significantly, and having other people around keeps me on task (body-doubling).
Ok so you go to the office with the other ADHD staff abs leave the rest of us out of it
Load More Replies...I don't see a problem with working from home - not everyone enjoys an office environment, or works well in one. Some people find it easier to work harder at home and too easy to spend a lot of time chatting in an office.
I wish my job could be worked remotely. Sadly, it is incredibly hands-on.
To be fair, I’ve worked with plenty of people who work from the office who do just the bare minimum as well! I always think it doesn’t matter if they are at the office or wfh, there is a subset of people who don’t work.
Load More Replies...They should put it at 50 and you have to die at 75. 25 years paid without working and then you say goodbye ^^
You really should say this comment somewhere you can read it again when you are 75. See if you still agree with it then.
Load More Replies...If they would keep my paycheck, pay all my bills and give me what they take out in taxes I could probably retire at 30.
At the time of writing, ‘Memes Off The Clock’ has 25.3k followers on Instagram. The curator describes the project as sharing “corporate memes for your lunch break dreams,” and we totally dig the intentional rhyme there. The account has been focused on posting witty work and corporate life-related memes since late 2020, and we can’t get enough of them.
And Friday, Saturday and Sunday while you're at it... I just can't with reality any longer.
Load More Replies...Stale cigarette smoke, coffee, cheap deodorant, whatever TF Glade...
Load More Replies...I got a camera so I could spy on my cats while I'm at work. They do nothing. Literally nothing.
I work from home, so most days instead of a lunch break I just take a nap. :) It's amazing!
I don't see how it is toxic, as long as the work gets done in time. I do that a lot actually. Of course if your task takes more than 20 minutes, you do it in 2 hours then give yourself a 6 hour break.
One of the best ways to get your memes noticed is to make them relatable to your target audience. If you throw some humor into the mix, you’re only improving your chances of going viral. And what’s more relatable than sharing the most common problems that many employees run into in their day-to-day office lives?
The absolute majority of us have to work for a living, and our grievances are an invisible thread that connects us all, no matter what part of the world we might be in.
Noel Coward: "I love criticism just so long as it's unqualified praise."
What’s your workday been like today, dear Pandas? Which of these memes did you vibe with the most? Which ones did you forward to your colleagues? What do you do to create a healthier work-life balance?
If you have a free moment or you’re on your coffee break (we’ll join you in spirit), we’d love to hear from you. Share your thoughts in the comment section at the bottom of this post!
Anytime someone spells my name wrong, I spell THEIR name wrong when I write back to them. Most people get it. I mean really - my correctly spelled name is right in the message! This one lady in accounting though....she's a little slow. She's been spelling my name wrong for years now. I guess she never notices all the different ways I've spelled her name when I respond to her. :) Yes, it's passive aggressive but you've got to have some sort of fun at work.
I used to have exactly that problem in my former job (correct spelling in the e-mail and people keep getting it wrong anyway), but in my new job I have the exact inverse. The morons who made my work e-mail got my name wrong (and won't change it) but my colleagues keep spelling my name correctly. That's refreshing.
yes I just got my first check and it was over 200 bucks and I am so happy.
For me it was yesterday. School takes heath benefit premiums and crams them into 8-9 months. Stopped taking mine out this week. Start drawing SS in August.
Yeah. Make sure you mention the colour of the people you criticise, so the world becomes a better, less racist place....
There's a difference between racism and simply describing the customer "middle-aged white lady" is neither ageist, racist nor sexist.
Load More Replies...Replace "last week" and "this week" with "last year" and "this year"
And be sure to make "Transfer Last Week's To-Do List Items" the first item on this week's list so you cross if off immediately and feel that sense of accomplishment.
I wondered if anyone else knew this - kudos sweet f***y adams! That whole MTV series "liquid television" seems like a fevered dream
Load More Replies...One of the worst feelings ever! But I build hitting the snooze bar 3 times in to my first alarm setting. I have a really hard time waking up so I need to set at least 2 alarms. I envy those of you who can instantly wake up when the alarm goes off.
1 minute is okay, 30-10 is worse because I know I am not going back to sleep and I’m just waiting it out.
No, it was absolute bliss! I usually wake up 3 hours before my alarm and struggle to fall asleep again, so anytime when I see it's already almost my alarm time, I am soooo happy. And waking up 1 minute before your clock is amazing anyway, because you wake up in the right part of your sleep, so it's way easier to become fully awake than when your alarm wakes you during the wrong part of your sleep.
Just pat yourself down, pull out your phone, scowl at it, and say "sorry gotta go".
My new job uses Teams for almost everything. I've grudgingly learned to stop turning it off so I don't have to talk to anyone. :)
If religions can get away with "thinking it is doing it" when it relates to sin, this counts. If you thought of doing stuff you should totally get credit.
I sleep in leggings and a long sleeved tshirt with another t over the top. (I wear a onesie over the top if it gets cold.) I look dressed when I get up, ish!
Load More Replies...My colleagues used to call me Blue (the dinosaur from Jurassic park) because I used to just grunt to their 'good mornings'
Great. Now those dummies will make plans they won't be allowed to keep. Hopefully they make non-refundable deposits too! F**k those stupid employees. /s
This is an American thing. In the UK I get moaned at because I have holiday left and you HAVE to take it before April.
Also sometimes a seasonal thing. May is the slowest month where I work. My manager strongly encourages us to use our PTO then. Am American.
Load More Replies...I hope this email finds you well! As per my previous email, please see attached! Thanks! Best!
I almost always use it after Thanks! at the end. But then I have to rethink it if I want to use one in the body of the message. It's a real dilemma. You don't want to seem weird by using too many of them! :)
My email system has predictive text so it knows that when I type "please" it's supposed to fill in "let me know if you have any questions". But everyone knows that you're not actually supposed to respond with a question. It's an unwritten rule!
Taxes aren't your problem, the cost of living crisis is, robber baron corporations, and a bad government that doesn't know how to govern. Nordic countries all have high taxes. They also have universal healthcare, free education, strong social policies like unemployment aid, etc, which are all paid for from those high taxes.
Thank you for saying this so I don't have to, Szzone!
Load More Replies...Happened with me. I didn't work for 10 months but didn't regret the decision even for 1 second
Same here. It was hard, but staying would have been the worst thing I could have done.
Load More Replies...So I'm neutral good, not going to go through life as a paladin it would seem.
My boss signs hers "Respectfully". Which I don't think I could ever use, because I'm not a fan of lying to people. :)
My company ‘engagement surveys’ are rigged so you can’t actually say that anything is bad, kinda like - out of the following four answers, which describes your work experience here at xxxx 1) amazeballs 2) OMG I love you 3) here, take my first born 4) here, take my soul, please tick all that apply’
Ours was supposed to be 'anonymous' because you don't have to give your name but the questions would ask for the immediate manager, number of months in that department, if you were moved from another one, which one etc etc.
Load More Replies...You should completely forget about your job on weekends if you work monday to friday!
When the office phone rings and you say “ f**k sake . What now” before picking it up. 😂
When the office phone rings and you say “ f**k sake . What now” before picking it up. 😂
