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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Yes and they´d have to fight in the mud for some raise or amenity.
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a year , a month isnt nearly long enough , ALL politicians should have to live on benefits for a year too , then when they are making laws about it they know who hard it is to survive never mind live on benefits
Or live on it while they are in office. That way effects of their laws would have more immediacy. Maybe.
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For a month, that would still look like a joke to them. Let's make it one year at least. See how they survive through different seasons.
Base it in the US, and they have crappy insurance to boot.
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But they can't live alone.... they have to be supporting a family of 3 or more on that salary.
No, a year. And they don't get access to their savings/stocks/alternate sources of money that the lowest paid employee doesn't have. They also have to drive what the lowest paid employee drives.
As well as pay rent, bills, groceries, live in a comparable dwelling, and file taxes all in the manner of that same employee
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I would watch it even if I were blind. My last DM would've been a hoot to watch!
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There is a British Show that does something similar. A Rich family from a town swaps with a poor one, they do each others jobs and have to live on each others budgets for a week. Its interesting watching the Rich family try to live on a 1/100th of their normal budget
Yeah, we have Wife Swap here too. Not nearly the same thing.
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A month could be considered a funny adventure. A year would be more appropriate. At least 3 month.
No. They must live like said employee for 6mos. Must find a place to live using same salary as employee, throw in bad or really low credit too. Must use public transportation, walk, or use really old, barely working gas guzzling car (ni newer than 95). They have to shop for food, pay bills, maybe even use a laundromat.
Make it 3 months and we have a challenge, you can tolerate just about anything for a single month.
And, they have to use an apartment / home commiserate with that employee's income level!
In that employee's house with the employee's family and from the contents of kitchen, closet, etc.
There have been experiments of doing just this. One of the probs hubs and I noticed right away, they were set up in an apt and had spending cash, then went out, worked and went forward without success. My issue is, who started w/a furnished apt? Where is the sleeping on a friend's couch, thrift store shopping, etc? We sure weren't set up in any grand way. The last one I heard of probably 15 yrs ago now, they had to be saved as one got sick and didn't have enough $$$ to see Dr & get medication.
Plus, they start the month in an empty, cold flat with a broken toilet, mould on the walls and a cracked window with cardboard taped over the break. No access at all to their rich mates or their fortunes, only a basic phone with little credit, poor signal reception and the requirement to ring the jobcentre daily to prove that they are looking for work.
2-3 months to get the full feel of bills that their paychecks barely stretch to pay.
And what they would have been paid gets donated to their lowest paid employees
But we don't allow Japanese style torture gameshows in the west?
Tbh, it should be at least 4 months, because they need to get a real flavor of it.
So much a better idea than those silly (and most likely faked) secret boss shows.
Billionaire house swap, they have to live on the salary and only have access to the amenities of the lowest paid employee for 3 months, aka 1tv season
Not good enough. Those low paid employees might have kids to take care of. They might be the only income maker in the household too
Yes please more of that game show! I mean the 99% would love to watch that. Especially if they did it for a month.
There is a life switch program on Finnish tv with the idea that a rich person or a couple switch with the poor and have to live by each other's budgets and in their houses. Haven't seen it, but sounds like they have a similar idea
Warren buffet lived off of 50k a year for decades, and most of that was spent on his family. Even now he pays himself 100k a year and is worth 95 billion.
I'd say six months and rent rising along with the dreaded lease being up during that time period. Oh, and add on a junker car so they understand how much it currently costs to fix it when things go wrong. Maybe toss in a fake family or something for extra mouths to feed.
6 months and they have absolutely no access to any of their savings or anything from their high paying position
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.”
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.
