30 Funny And Relatable Anti-Work Posts For Anyone Who Hates Working, As Shared On This Online Group
Having a job can be both a blessing and a curse. A few lucky ones have managed to pave the career path they have always dreamed of, but the rest are just putting on a clean shirt and fake smile combo and barely getting through the eight-hour bender five days a week.
While having a meaningful job ranked 13th out of 29 sources of happiness in a global survey, only 40 percent of American workers say that they work in good jobs, according to this survey. Many reasons can be to blame, from poor pay to unfair treatment, long working hours, and job insecurity.
Luckily, for anyone who feels that way about their job, here is a safe place to talk about it. Welcome to the Free From Work subreddit which, according to the description, “is the right place if you hate working!” Created back in 2021, the community is still pretty young, but it already features impressive content that is “mostly memes and tweets to brighten up your day.”
Below, we wrapped up some of the funniest and most soul-soothing Free From Work posts that work like a band-aid for our overworked souls.
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More people than we think have been in a position where the hatred for their job became overpowering. For some, it happened suddenly, for others it started from the first day at work, while for most employees, the sense of loathing came gradually but became too strong to ignore.
So in order to find out what to do in such a situation, how to navigate a job you don’t like or even hate, and when is it better to part ways with it, Bored Panda spoke to Christine Mitterbauer, a licensed and ICF-approved career coach based in the UK.
Every other first world country on the planet has this .. except the US.
From her experience as a career coach, people often start hating their job when there’s a clash between their personal values and the values of the company or sector they work in, Mitterbauer argues. “The longer this goes on, the more the dislike, or even hate, can grow.”
“Another common reason people hate their job is that they have a hard time with specific people, a boss or colleagues they work closely with,” she said and added, “Whether it’s better to quit or not is a matter of your life circumstances and whether you can afford to quit, but of course, it’s better to notice your dislike for your job growing before it becomes all-consuming.”
as an introvert .... I would LOVE to permanently work remote so that I could stay AWAY from everyone else's unnecessary drama
Me too, although I love drama, as long as I am not involved. Like watching a train wreck from a safe distance. I have to work 1 day per month at the office and I dread that day.
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As an extrovert, I enjoy working in an office. I was a receptionist and then an office manager, both of which required social interaction. But I hated hearing about personal issues. I'm not a therapist and it made me uncomfortable. It was difficult to tell people to keep their personal life to themselves. Being outgoing is one thing, but it doesn't mean I want to know your life story.
f**k you, Dbernn. I will toss your naked, charred body into a pit and leave it there to rot.
Dbernn is extroverted, let’s not throw them in the pit yet (unless they don’t or haven’t adopted an introvert yet)
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People who think they know what's best for everyone around them deserve to rot. It's the fact that she said "are terrible for YOUR mental health" that really gets me. Don't tell me what's bad for my mental health. I'm well aware of that. You're wrong.
I find it funny the number of people who assume going to the office = work. I've worked in offices for decades and can promise you there were numerous people who did just the above--socialize.
I've been working from home since 2020 - although I was on maternity leave for a year - and it's obvious whenever I have a day in the office (which we do for the team spirit every now and then) that many of those socialising people just don't have any intrinsic motivation to work. I like my work, and on weeks when I get paid for what I have done instead of sitting there fixed hours (we alternate because of phone shifts) I never work past 15:30 despite doing my best to work thoroughly. Some colleagues would choose any distraction over actually working, and it shows much more when they are alone at home!
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I prefer to socialise with people I chose to have around, not those I'm forced to have around
But that's great. Some people obviously should be in offices, and some WANT TO. some jobs don't require being in an office, and some people prefer working from home. This should be a positive thing, not a problem for everyone around
Agreed, I had to do remote schooling in 9th grade and I fell into a depression, im better now that Im back in school
I'd rather pretend my coworkers aren't spending most of the time on their phones. Instead of seeing them spend most of their time on their phones.
Said drama is the reason I started boycotting the vast majority of hollywood.
I missed going to work. If you have a hangover and/or just not in the mood for working, you can just sit there and chat for 8 hours, no one is going to think or imply you didn't work that day. One day without productive work at home, you got a call or someone implying you are fking up home office at the next meeting
I'm curious if the first commenter was literally serious, or if they were being facetious. I hope it's the latter.
As an introvert i hate to be involved in drama but like to watch how it unfolds
I got hired at a company that I was told is a great place to work , everyone was in everyone's personal business, the boss was degrading the employees it was miserable, I lasted one hour and 15 mins . I told the Boss your company is not suited for me ! I left !
Hmm 🤔 do I want a reality show at work or quiet peace served up nice and warm with a cup of delicious coffee aka personality in a cup? Option B! B! Did I say B? Yeah B! 😂
I'm currently fighting my higher-ups about returning to office. Like, seriously, I asked what the criteria was for the sake of transparency, of how they justify some people remaining remote and requiring others back in to do the same job. I'm just shy of 50 miles from the office. "You gonna pay for my gas?!?" Like seriously 😒
I agree 100% DKS 001. Would love to work from home. I could be around my dog all the time.
According to the career coach, there can be good reasons for keeping a job that has neither good pay nor good terms: “jobs in certain sectors, for example, the arts or education, don’t always pay well but they might give you a big sense of meaning and satisfaction.” Mitterbauer argues that “if those are values you treasure, that might be enough reason to keep the job despite the salary being low.”
My job is not exhausting at all compared to others, and I know I'm lucky for that. But it's clearly eating up my intellectual energy. I used to draw from time to time, and write short stories. Now I casually come home at 7 in the evening with zero creativity.
Start looking for all the big companies you don't really need to spend your money for on a daily basis, and thus could boycott permanently until they pay their taxes and decent wages to their employees. That seems a fair and quite satisfying thing to do.
I heard that growing up, people could pay rent on a single income and work good hours. I'll never have that life. I wake up every day knowing that it's only a matter of time until I turn 15, and then I need to start working. Otherwise, I'll never afford college. I want to become a psychologist and live in a nice apartment with a cat. But the most I'll ever be is an anxious, depressed McDonald's cashier.
When asked what to do when after years a person suddenly develops a sense of not liking their job anymore, Mitterbauer’s advice is to get clear on your values – what is truly important to you in life.
“I often use the Wheel of Work, which shows people several aspects and values of their job, and then we discuss each in turn, how important it is to them, and to what extent it is being met now. Money, creativity, culture, creativity, etc. Through lots of conversation, you lay out on the table what values are truly important and which ones are less important.”Mitterbauer argues that if you hate your job, there’s a good chance this is because there’s a clash here. “It’s never too late to change, and you can start making small changes today,” she concluded.
I think they actually did invent that flavor of Monopoly. To try to profit on the sadness. Doubt the board is fun enough to be flammable more than once though
With the benefit of hindsight, if there was an evacuation order then any manager who forced the workers to remain under guard should absolutely be liable for their deaths, and the very company should be sued and prosecuted out of existence. Natural disaster in reference to the storm and its effects is accurate
I don't believe in laziness. I believe in inactiveness, which is usually a product of something the individual is not happy about.
That must be an American thing? We never gave out awards like that, that's ridiculious.
And I'm always baffled by all these Hollywood movies, praised by massive audience and making billions of juicy dollars, while most of them carry very specific anticapitalistic messages that should start revolutions right away at the exit of the movie theatre.
Capitalism doesn't work, communism doesn't work, democracy doesn't work, socialism doesn't work... I think our "leaders" don't work.
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Something I learned later on in life is that an interview or job offer is just as much you deciding if you want to work there. So ask questions. Ask how long people have worked there (it tells you A LOT if people quit after a short time), ask what's expected of you, ask what's in it for you. Is it possible to advance? Do they offer development in your field? If the pay is off you tell them, if you don't agree to any of the terms - tell them. You can negotiate now, just accept whatever is a thing of the past. OFTEN they will change/work with you on whatever is off if you tell them BEFORE you sign or agree. They are interested in you - that's why they offer the job and recruiting is expensive and hard. If they picked you it means they need you and if they won't agree to what you expect (in reasonable amounts) someone else will. This goes especially if you have education and experience. And never settle for less than you've had before.
Im gonna start my own business probably and have a small farm so i can sell things at the farmers market i think it's an okay idea
That's a huge trend to do exactly that right now! Check out the number of young people selling sustainable goods at your local farmers market to find your community
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Minimum wage shouldn't be an absolute value. It needs to be connected to the inflation index and updated monthly. It needs to rise and fall based on how well the economy is doing. Salaries need to be flexible as well.
I was recently told about a woman who resigned because she wanted $19 an hour instead of $16. Her employer said that the extra $3 per hour wasn't what she actually needed. They said that she needed benefits and that they couldn't provide them. They didn't fire her. I'm fascinated by that interaction.
Most of these had valid points, but the payroll deduction for the gift card was misleading. I've had gift cards given as a bonus. There is the amount of the card added as income before taxes, then a deduction from net pay. This is done to pay taxes on the gift card. Is that fair? No. But neither is making misleading memes. Misinformation is misinformation, even I agree with the sentiment.
Something I learned later on in life is that an interview or job offer is just as much you deciding if you want to work there. So ask questions. Ask how long people have worked there (it tells you A LOT if people quit after a short time), ask what's expected of you, ask what's in it for you. Is it possible to advance? Do they offer development in your field? If the pay is off you tell them, if you don't agree to any of the terms - tell them. You can negotiate now, just accept whatever is a thing of the past. OFTEN they will change/work with you on whatever is off if you tell them BEFORE you sign or agree. They are interested in you - that's why they offer the job and recruiting is expensive and hard. If they picked you it means they need you and if they won't agree to what you expect (in reasonable amounts) someone else will. This goes especially if you have education and experience. And never settle for less than you've had before.
Im gonna start my own business probably and have a small farm so i can sell things at the farmers market i think it's an okay idea
That's a huge trend to do exactly that right now! Check out the number of young people selling sustainable goods at your local farmers market to find your community
Load More Replies... Minimum wage shouldn't be an absolute value. It needs to be connected to the inflation index and updated monthly. It needs to rise and fall based on how well the economy is doing. Salaries need to be flexible as well.
I was recently told about a woman who resigned because she wanted $19 an hour instead of $16. Her employer said that the extra $3 per hour wasn't what she actually needed. They said that she needed benefits and that they couldn't provide them. They didn't fire her. I'm fascinated by that interaction.
Most of these had valid points, but the payroll deduction for the gift card was misleading. I've had gift cards given as a bonus. There is the amount of the card added as income before taxes, then a deduction from net pay. This is done to pay taxes on the gift card. Is that fair? No. But neither is making misleading memes. Misinformation is misinformation, even I agree with the sentiment.
