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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I know I'm a privileged b*tch for being able to do this, but even when I was unemployed two years ago I would flat out stop the application process if I had to do that. I felt if a company couldn't see the irony of asking potential employees to waste time in redundancy then I didn't want to work for them anyway.
THIS! Here's a fun fact, part of a negotiation tactic is establishing a trend of agreement, starting with the very simple common points and working your way to bigger or more contentious points. Each time you agree, you invest yourself, and are less likely to back away from your prior decision or change a belief. This is explained as cognitive dissonance and the backfire effect. This is used in HR (whose job is to protect the company, not it's workers) to ensure a "habit of compliance". Each time you agree to a repetitive or illogical task, you are more likely to "double down" and keep going - which essentially conditions you to agree with whatever dumbf***ery they throw at you. Jumping through hoops, repeating the same tasks, duplicating information - these are approaches that work towards your compliance or obedience... AKA surrender. Senior management also applies this to individuals to ensure you know "who's in power".
Also cover letters. As the hiring manager as well as the person applying I never found any use in them. It's either a summary of the CV or a whole lot of pretentious BS that needs guessing if someone is actually like that or just for the process. I will take my chances with looking at your resumé and if it looks suitable to have a phone call or face(time) to face(time) interview to actually judge that.
Apply in person; Go to the website. Apply at the website; apply in person. Can't win.
Not a recent process...(evidently) I'm a Boomer and I dealt with that ALOT...very frustrating !!! I got so frustrated I would say on the application "see resume"
THIS! I did this a million times. Screw wasting my hours looking for work doing redundant tasks that only prove I can surrender my precious time.
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Even worse are the medical practices that have all of your information on file (and update it each visit), yet demand each year that you fill out another entire history form on a sheaf of flimsy paper with one of their pens that only writes half the time.
WHY do they do that? It makes me want to scream. If I can get away with it I just type "see resume".
I assume they figure if a candidate would do that, then the candidate do anything the company asks.
Just started one for CDL driver for a huge local convenience chain. Resume, plus everything on the resume in the form. -Twice-
Yes. Yes. Yes. And I thought I was the only one agonizing over this in the world.
The reason you are asked to do an application is because you will be asked to attest by signing at the end of it that the information you have provided is true and accurate. A resume is a calling card. It is not a legal document. An application is a legal document.
Is this a corporation thing or a chain company thing? Cause I've never completed such forms and God knows how many resumes I've sent in my life
I don't know how it is now, but here in Korea, back in 2016, when I was unemployed, you would register to a job seeking website of your choice (and you'd choose at least 2, of course), where you'd insert all your resumé details through the respective website(s) form. Then you would additionally upload a PDF of one you made yourself. Then, some companies you'd apply for would have you compile yet another resumé form on their own website. And it's usually the big and well known companies. Yes, I'm talking about the big players, such as Samsung, LG, and various other non-conglomerate big businesses. However, in these cases, you can skip the job seeking websites part and apply immediately to their form.
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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.”
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.
