50 Hilariously Accurate Memes That Sum Up Millennial Struggles At Work
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While boomers enjoy their well-deserved (cough, eyeroll, cough) retirement in 200 square meter houses with pools and stuff—after all, they are the ones taking advantage of the current housing market boom—millennials are trying to maintain their office job that’s barely leading anywhere. Definitely not to homeownership, since home values in the US soared by 31.2% in two years, making that already distant dream basically impossible. And when Adidas says impossible is nothing, let me tell you, some things really are.
So let’s get back to that office job that gives you barely enough money for your daily fix of bio avocados (you gotta get those healthy fats!), Sunday hangover food, nice skin moisturizer, and Amazon prime account. If it keeps you awake at night, you are not alone. Corporate Millennial Anxiety is a real thing, and the sooner it's recognized, the sooner we will be able to help our lost souls.
Thankfully, there’s a safe space to talk about hard millennial things, aka work, shifts, overtime, balance, payroll, career (who even invented that word!), job stress-induced weight gain and dark undereye circles. Welcome to the account of the most painfully accurately and brutally funny corporate millennial memes which goes by the same name as the diagnosis of my fellow generation—“Corporate Millennial Anxiety.”
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Bored Panda reached out to Alane Rebecca, the creator behind the Corporate Millennial Anxiety memes account, to find out more about the project. Alane describes herself as a “quintessential 90's nostalgia-loving millennial who continues to grasp at every last bit of my youth.” She added that she treats her dogs like kids and still quotes Mean Girls daily.
“I posted my very first meme on the Corporate Millennial Anxiety account on December 14th, 2020. The account was born out of a text conversation with one of my favorite coworkers. We were both adapting to working from home, to cope she and I would send each other funny work-related Tik Toks and memes,” the creator recounted.
She continued: “One day she jokingly texted, ‘You should start a viral Instagram account’, to which I responded ‘Say less’. I created the account, began posting and it blew up. The account grew at a shocking rate and I had 10K followers within 2 weeks.”
And if not everyone does it, the votes will remain 100% anonymous so there is no peer pressure. Great idea.
Alane said that at that point in time a lot of millennials hadn't joined Tik Tok yet, “so I think my reposting of millennial and work-related Tik Toks to a social media platform that millennials were already engaged on created something novel within that demographic,” she explained.
When selecting the post to share, Alane said she always looks for content that makes her say "It's me". “If it resonates with me, it will most likely resonate with my follower base.”
This one strikes a cord. I dream of leaving it all for a simple job and going back to my island, but I still fell that subconcious pressure for achievements and carreer. Like we are worth as much as our job which is soooo wrong! Damn you capitalism!
Leave the job; the feeling of pressure disappears and you suddenly see how wrong you were.
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I thought being a Paramedic was until antivaxer morons came along and ruined it. Transporting these Nits to hospital with an 87% blood oxygen and still they argue COVID’s existence and babble on about crap. Only way to get peace is to intubate the idiots.
Don't create new conspiracies! They will now say that you intubate them to shut them up! I wouldn't blame you though if you did
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It took me about 25 years of employment to realize ... my employer is not my friend; they do not have my best interests at heart. Put yourself first ... stop working nights and weekends, be more efficient during your work schedule so less time is needed outside of work hours, set boundaries. If your employer pushes back, find a new job.
And, regardless of what your boss keeps saying, your company is NOT a family.
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That’s not the fault of capitalism, that’s your own fault for not knowing the difference between “things” and “stuff I have to do to get things.”
Gotta love the "What is your dream job?" My dream job is not having to have a job.
In fairness, I *do* have a dream job! I want to be a psychologist, because helping people is my passion, and not merely how I want to make enough money to support myself.
That's cool but how many of your patients are wrapped up in their work?
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tbh it never was mine. I remember stressing so much as a kid whenever anyone asked me "what do you want to be when you grow up?" and everyone was like "a teacher, a doctor" etc and I was just there thinking I didn't even want to have a job at all. I went to college just because I knew "I had to" if I wanted a "nice life" but to this day I have struggled to find a job that I love and even if I did, it's like, I just can't separate the fact that if I'm gonna do something is because I need to get paid for it, no matter how much I love it. Like even if they started paying me for my hobbies, the moment I start depending on it, it stops being a hobby to become my job.
Everyone go watch Tangled. Flynn Ryder's dream is being on his own island surrounded by piles of money... Never understood the point of the piles of money since you can't spend it, but the point is your job is just a means to an end and everyone needs to ask whether they have the best job to help get themselves there!
I absolutely agree. All these articles on how to be more productive at work and how to advance your career make me want to vomit. I never really aspired to be a good slave.
Yeah, "What's your dream job?" was always a question we were asked. After university, I realized the only honest answer I had to that was, "I don't dream about jobs."
You're kidding right? Okay... Go back way back before jobs were a thing before money was a thing when everybody just grew their own food hunted their own food and built their own homes. Now think about it... What are you doing when you grow food, hunt food, and build your own home? You're working... Humans have always worked to live. Always... The only difference is now we work indirectly to live. Whereas previously we worked directly to live.
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But dreams take money to achieve... nvm...I'm genX 😐😑😐. We're the last generation that "gets it."
Downvotes are millennials who still have their parents pay their car insurance
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My dream is to work... but only volunteer work... so I can leave when I'm sick or when the environment is sick
The greatest scam YOU ever pulled was convincing yourself that our entire economic system is to blame for your crappy job. Find another one, get over it, stop wallowing in your victim hood.
Too bad having a job is required to fulfill dreams. I'm sorry that you might actually have to work to get what you want. Nobody convinced you that you needed a job, you just do. And there is nothing wrong with celebrating success or achievement either. I got my first job at 14, and because of that I've had the resources too fulfill my dreams. Good luck getting those dreams under communism.
It’s the “secret” scam of he who remains nameless .. shamelessly enforced by design such as the 40 hour work week , mother’s unable to stay home with their children, unable to make ends meet
Feminism promotes equality. Working at a crap job may not be great, but having the option and freedom to make that choice for yourself is pretty damn valuable.
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According to the author of the Corporate Millennial Anxiety Instagram account, even though the world was in the midst of a pandemic, the expectations of corporate employees remained the same. “I think we were all just stuck working from home with a lot of time and not a lot of work-life balance. I think everyone's mental health took a massive toll throughout 2020. I think my light-hearted, but sarcastic humor resonated with many millennials working in corporate America.”
But “sharing relatable content about feeling anxious or struggling with the dreaded "imposter syndrome", made people feel less alone throughout the ups and downs of the pandemic,” Alane explained.
Worked for an organisation that did field trips for staff. Got to see a few weird things. Dagenham car manufacturers was one! Was actually really interesting,
After having seen so many millennial memes and jokes, Alane believes that “what stands out the most about my generation is that we don't take ourselves too seriously. Many of us have delightfully dark and self-deprecating humor. We aren't afraid to laugh at ourselves when we do something stupid.”
Moreover, “I know millennials have a reputation for being too soft, but I strongly disagree with that idea. I think we are a compassionate and resilient generation that is not afraid to ask for help or make a bold decision like leaving a steady job because it's toxic,” she concluded.
Oh and be determined but not so determined that you actually know what you want because that might scare your colleagues (m/f)
I haven't stopped working....the pandemic didn't even break their stride...we just worked on through it...no work from home, nothing.
In my company you are expected to sign up for finance/technical courses in order for you to increase your expertise. You sign up, go through mind-melting demagogic storm of corporate slang, understand 10% of what they "taught" you, then end up with 40% more work and additional tasks on top of what you were already struggling with. Catch is, you get nothig extra because the higher paid positions are already taken and there is a queue behind each one. But hey, my company wants me to show personal development desire?
Biggest stress was trying to figure out what music to have. Haha also Napster.
I worked very hard on Monday so I could take it easy for the rest of the week. You should start your weekend rested on Thursday evening.
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Longer story short : life sucks, everyone is miserable, screw that s**t.
"Life is pain. Anyone who says different is selling something." -Dread Pirate Roberts in The Princess Bride
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Nope. This has been my life for the past 21 years. I'm so tired...
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I got to #5 and none of them had anything at all to do with being a millennial. What is going on here. Did they put the wrong title and intro on this list?
I'm guessing it's a buzzword, so people include it in titles to get more clicks?
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Especially when 75% or more of the meeting content has abso-f*cking-lutely nothing to do with your job!
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Well, by the sounds of this miserable lament, all of you "millennials" bring your angst on yourselves. It has nothing to do with those of us who are Boomers---I sure didn't ask that any of you be born, and I'm thankful that my son wasn't in your generation, but was a hard working man all during his short life.
Longer story short : life sucks, everyone is miserable, screw that s**t.
"Life is pain. Anyone who says different is selling something." -Dread Pirate Roberts in The Princess Bride
Load More Replies... Nope. This has been my life for the past 21 years. I'm so tired...
Load More Replies... I got to #5 and none of them had anything at all to do with being a millennial. What is going on here. Did they put the wrong title and intro on this list?
I'm guessing it's a buzzword, so people include it in titles to get more clicks?
Load More Replies... Especially when 75% or more of the meeting content has abso-f*cking-lutely nothing to do with your job!
Load More Replies... Well, by the sounds of this miserable lament, all of you "millennials" bring your angst on yourselves. It has nothing to do with those of us who are Boomers---I sure didn't ask that any of you be born, and I'm thankful that my son wasn't in your generation, but was a hard working man all during his short life.
