Imagine this: you’re on your lunch break at work, looking at your phone while your yesterday’s-dinner-turned-today’s-lunch is looking at you, waiting for its turn to get your attention. All of a sudden, you stumble across something on your social media feed that seizes your scrolling and evokes a hearty giggle. Next thing you do - share that something with a fellow colleague, who decided not to show up and work from home today. (Traitor!)
Chances are you don’t even have to imagine what that feels like as you have probably been in that exact situation yourself. And if you have, you know that there is plenty of content online that is worthy of being shared with your work bestie.
It’s very likely that what we have on today’s list would fall under the same ‘shareworthy’ category, as we have put together some of the most hilarious and accurate employee posts you will ever see on X (formerly Twitter).
If you’re curious to see what situations they entail, wait no longer and scroll down to find them below, where you will also find Bored Panda’s interviews with two experts, Associate Professor at MacEwan University, Dr. Tiffany Kriz, and Associate Professor at the USC Price School of Public Policy, Dr. Peter J. Robertson, who were kind enough to answer a few of our questions on the significance of coworker relationships.
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But not the mental health of those who have to listen to all those kazoos!
Load More Replies...Hahaha Hahaha Hahaha!!! Me, I had my mom send me enough kazoos for my basic training platoon. It was the 70s.
I am today because I am alone on the floor and have now read two harrowing post mortem reports and seen footage of my friend's accidental death by fall this week. So I think I'm allowed. FWIW I didn't smash my way through a bottle of whiskey which I usually would have.
Load More Replies...Kazoo s are fine anti-road rage devices. Rude driver? Cuss um out, but use the kazoo. Cracks me up every time.
Hobbies? I was so exhausted i coukdnt bither with dinner, not even premade dinners. Cereal and milk. I had 5 boxes, different flavors so it wasnt so repetative.
Add self care, social interaction, basic responsibilities for survival, so on and so on to that cycle. When there's no energy, there's no energy, no matter how important, beneficial or interesting the task.
Money doesn't give you happiness, but the things you can do with money probably will
My favorite answer is 'There nothing that early retirement won't solve.'
I want to make it to at least 65. House will almost be paid off then.
Load More Replies...Money can't buy you happiness, but it is one of the better subscription plans.
Typically a salary increase is in direct proportion to a spending increase, requiring a salary increase... Ad infinitum
Having a person you like at work is great; and not only because you have someone to share work-related memes with. According to Associate Professor at MacEwan University, Dr. Tiffany Kriz, “Liking [people] at work can make a substantial difference in how a person experiences work—and even life—on a daily basis, contributing to more positive emotions at work and a sense of flourishing.”
In a recent interview with Bored Panda, the expert pointed out that some people will always see work as transactional and won’t be focused on developing relationships with colleagues, however, some of the others might.
“I think more have realized that how, where, and with whom they spend their time makes a difference in how they experience life, and they apply that philosophy to the workplace just as they would any other area in life,” she said. “People have a fundamental need to connect with other people, and our loneliness levels suggest we need those connections more now than ever before.”
Dear faceless corporation, money holds no interest for me, nor do friendships outside of the same blank faces I see peeking out of cubicles, for 12 hours a day (I do not believe in being paid for overtime). I will kill my firstborn, and my parents if it means the CEO can get a yacht that is 2 foot bigger than the others down at the private Marina. Yesterday I rode a Unicorn. Your eager people, and willing slave.
Same thing when you're asked "why do you want to work for us" like sure I have applied to places I genuinely want to work at, but 98% of the time the answer is that I need a job and you are either the easiest to apply to, least sh*t on my list, or you pay the most.
The average All-hands meeting is more like having your retinas tattooed. Some C-suite goon with nothing to say but that's not going to stop them saying it.
As a person who has had injections into their eyeball, I concur.
Load More Replies...It's weird how in some countries tattoos are still somehow affecting careers. I'm a nurse, have large tats, pink hair and face piercings. Here in Finland it doesn't matter at all. Only ONE patient has asked another nurse because they were afraid of me (or my tats?) in my 17 years of nursing.
I'm a dental hygienist and in general I'm unthreatening (just a chubby white lady with blonde hair and glasses, I look like I'm probably a librarian) but I have a large black and white armband tattooed on my upper arm with three swords piercing it. When I started my career patients actually complained about it and I was told I had to wear long sleeves to cover it (the tips of the swords poked out of my shirt sleeve). That was almost 20 years ago. Now, nobody cares. Sometimes I have pink hair. Have more visible tats. Nobody bats an eye. Times have changed a LOT, for the better.
Load More Replies...Another expert, Associate Professor at the USC Price School of Public Policy, Dr. Peter J. Robertson emphasized that positive relationships between employees can benefit not only them but the workplace itself, too.
“Research on organizational commitment indicates that there are three types of commitment experienced by employees, one of which is called affiliation commitment (because it is based on the positive relationships employees have with the other people they work with). Some research suggests that affiliation commitment is a stronger predictor of organizational citizenship behavior (for example, prosocial or pro-organizational behavior), which contributes to more effective organizational performance.”
Oh-my-gosh!!! I used to interpret for the hearing impaired during all employees meetings FOR FREE 😞
What would you be doing if you were not translating (which is I assume the reason for the post)?
Why? HR should have been allowing you to openly discuss your salary the whole time, as is your legal right.
legal right doesn´t necessarily mean it does happen - same like illegal stuff is illegal but still happens :D (it´s sad, don´t get me wrong)
Load More Replies...Here everyone knows how much you earn. Everyone gets the same salary from the same work. Of course if you're a nurse like me, there's bonuses for evening, night and weekend shifts. But the work schdules are made so everyone gets the chance to get the "bonus" money.
As a former HR Manager, I've seen that clause written into thier contracts and of course when you sign that, you're liable to uphold that part of the agreement regardless if it's perfectly legal. Yeah. Truth.
That's why you really should read your contract. If there is something written in there that you don't agree with, that would be the time to bring it up. I know that's easier said than done, and I promise I'm not trying to be flippant. It's probably difficult to stand up for yourself like that if you desperately need the work 😕. But I see these things and it breaks my heart a little. My wish is that people were more empowered.
Load More Replies...well some things aren´t that bad about it, to me it´s bad that you can invest in things like wheat, rice and other stuff like this. That´s totally f****d up, there I do 100% agree :
Load More Replies...I had training at work that relied heavily on the MB personality assessment. I told the Training Dept that they wasted their money.
astrology is astronomy for the ancients who didn't really know how stars work.
Also, we forget precession of the equinoxes. I used to think I was a Virgo, but then I learned I'm really a Leo. Then again, astrology is a load of taurus.
Load More Replies...I've been saying that for years. It's nonsense, there aren't "sixteen personality types". Everyone has different traits in different amounts, we're not pigeons to be put in holes.
According to Dr. Robertson, over the last few decades, organizations have become more “team-based” in that they are using teams for lots of different kinds of purposes. “For this reason, there has also been increased attention to the importance of effectively managing interpersonal relationships and group dynamics,” he pointed out.
“As one example, the concept of emotional intelligence has become quite popular, reflecting the fact that being able to effectively manage one's own and others' emotions is key to being an effective manager or leader, and an important capacity for groups and organizations to have.”
Even maintaining a professional attitude with some of my coworkers can be trying at times. I don't even bother pretending I like all of them.
I don't care if my coworkers like me. I'm not "intimidating" when I expect them to do their jobs properly and fix their mistakes. If they use materials and put it back in the wrong place, TAKE RESPONSIBILITY for it. If they know about something for two weeks and don't tell me until the night before, IT'S NOT MY PROBLEM. Etc, ad nauseum. I make mistakes, but I admit to them, I don't slough it off with "why do I have to do it?" I love Veronica, she's 100% spot on.
I actually like my coworkers, more or less. Of course, we're truck drivers with no set schedules, so the only person I see every week is the boss. I ran into one guy in June, it was the first time I've seen him since before covid.
Always got to be a turd in the punchbowl who gets offended and runs off to HR to file a complaint.
Maybe it was this one: "A boss is told by the higher ups that he has to let one of the team go to save money. He eventually whittled it down to two candidates who we'll call Jack and Jill. Then he thinks okay, whoever takes the first coffee break tomorrow is the one I fire. But neither takes a coffee break. Well okay, I'll fire the one who leaves early. But they both work overtime. Jill is the last to leave, and on the way out the boss tells her, Jill, I'm gonna be square with you - I can't decide whether to lay you or Jack off. She laughs and says "you're going to have to jack off because I've got a bus to catch".
I get so much more done at home. No one doing random drop by's interrupting train of thought
And no incessant ringing phones, only the company cell.
Load More Replies...I can f**k about doing anything except my job way better in the office, there are people to talk to, a café to sit in, floors to walk along randomly, vending machines to stare at.
Those who says this mostly are inferring from themselves to others. At least in my business (SCRUM software development) no one cares where the devs sit.
Discussing the importance of being able to connect with fellow coworkers, Dr. Robertson suggested that such connections are important on several levels. It is important not only in an emotional sense but from a professional point of view as well (especially since challenges come with lots of ambiguity and complexity), as conversations with coworkers can be critical to the collective sensemaking processes that are needed to help people figure out the best ways of dealing with those challenges.
It would have been b****y even if he hadn't misspelled his own name. T and r are right next to each other, it would have been a simple typo, get over yourself.
I kinda feel this, because... Me: "Hi, I'm Danny" Every moron who apparently thinks I regularly mispronounce my own name: "Hi, Dan" Yes, Danny is a child's name while I'm clearly a grown man. Deal with it anyway. Grumble. 😂
As someone who develops complex spreadsheets in Excel only to have the formulas mutilated because someone opened them in Google Sheets, this.
out of curiosity do you know if it works in LibreOffice? I've been trying it out
Load More Replies...This is why I use RTF. It works on everything. My content impresses, I don't need formatting.
I... work from "home", and have a dedicated "work" account on my computer(s), so when my day is over, I log out from that account, and bingo no work any more.
yeah, I got even an extra phone which I just turn off because nah thanks - one of my better decisions in life :D
Load More Replies...If you had decent workers' protection laws it still would be that way even with e-mail and smartphones. In Germany and I think most of the European countries it is illegal for a boss to contact a worker outside office hours and if they have to call you back from a vacation because of an extreme emergency they have to re-imburse the cost of your vacation and your vacation days.
Illegal, as in can be arrested for doing so?! They can email all they want, if you pick up your phone to look at it, that's on you.
Load More Replies...You'd get memos...one in every out tray. Handover books to share information.
If I choose to reply to work emails or Teams messages out of hours, that's entirely up to me and work would never expect me to respond on a day off or out of hours.
In our recent interview, Dr. Kriz pointed out that being able to relate to fellow colleagues can facilitate sharing emotions with them (which can enhance individual and team resilience) and build a solid bond; in some cases, even lead to forming workplace friendships.
“Gallup surveys regularly show that having a best friend at work impacts work engagement, as well as how much people enjoy their work and their likelihood to look for another job. Interestingly, their results suggest the impact of having a best friend at work became even stronger during the pandemic.”
Hey we don't make the rules we just follow them!- everyone k no s that once the bra comes off, the outside version of you no longer exists!- you are now the inside/home version of yourself!
Greg knows how to make it look like an accident. They won't be able to trace it from Greg back to me. Greg enjoys his work
That's probably the same reaction folks have when viewing her resume.
Load More Replies...In addition to other people, individuals can also relate to content that depicts situations they are well familiar with. “People have long resonated with funny and relatable work-related content, whether through comic strips (for example, Dilbert), movies (Office Space), or shows (The Office). So it’s no surprise that this trend is carried on now in social media,” Dr. Kriz said.
“In a professional environment, you can’t always talk about the quirky or frustrating observations directly with colleagues. This kind of content on social media can help fill the gaps in providing comedic relief and a sense of relatedness around those shared experiences.”
Indeed, otherwise how would you expand it to "oh for the everloving sake of ferk"
Load More Replies...Unless it's multiple f***s (as it so often is) and then it's "for f***s' sake".
Load More Replies...While I was in prison, I heard the phrase "hot as someone who shares carnal relations with women who have given birth" AND the phrase "cold as someone who shares carnal relations with women who have given birth". What I want to know is the ambient temperature of someone who shares carnal relations with women who have given birth.
At first I was confused, by your comment, then for some reason I heard Samuel Jackson's voice
Load More Replies...In the first, F*ck is a noun, and it's for the sake of the F*ck (e.g. the purpose of the F*ck presumably being given). In the second, F*ck is an adjective, modifying sake. Given the versatility of F*ck, I think either one is acceptable grammatically.
It takes time to edit spell checker to say Fuzz off with a autocorrect exclamation mark. Why doesnt it have that in its dictionary?
If the attachment was included with every email reply, server and inbox space would run out frequently. Especially since people don't seem to know the difference between 'Reply' and 'Reply All'.
But there would be a way to code it so it just links to the original attachment, and not actually duplicate the the attachment. If someone deletes the original, then the link would just die or not populate. Not to mention we waste so much data space everyday, a few duplicate attachments that will auto-delete after x-amount of time isn't a big deal.
Load More Replies...We just realised that Outlook does that for me! We don't know why, though. Somebody was complaining about how annoying it is when they get multiple emails from a client, and they reply to the newest one not knowing a detail the client wrote in an earlier email because they hadn't seen that one yet, and I went, "What are you talking about?". Turns out, an unknown something in my account's settings makes it so my emails are sorted into neat little "conversations". If a client send me multiple emails regarding the same topic, I only get the newest one in my inbox, but if I click a little arrow/triangle on the side I can read all the messages in that convo. Earlier unread emails will be in there and marked as unread, so I don't miss them before replying, and I can see which emails had attachments and open that email and grab it again. My colleagues were all very impressed. :-D
You only need to read the manual to know how it works. Of course, with constant updates automatically downloaded and installed, the manual is updated every 3 hours, but this is the future we were given... and by the way, the manual is hidden somewhere in the cloud too, and its location changes with every update...
Load More Replies...According to Dr. Robertson, online content that people can relate to does more than just provide a much-needed giggle. “In general, humor is good, so keeping things light can usually be beneficial,” he told Bored Panda. “But such social media content can also point to the kinds of problems or dysfunctions that often characterize the workplace, and in that sense, can have a consciousness-raising effect if it makes people more aware of these issues and even more willing to make the changes needed to improve the situation.”
But Covid isn't even over? Like most people are vaccinated by now, so it's basically the flu, but my school's getting another wave of it
COVID is not over, and apparently never will be. It has gone from pandemic to endemic.
Load More Replies...As a regular hand washer, even pre-covid, I've gotten pink eye enough to know that people are f-ing disgusting! The worst is when people leave a stall, after obviously taking a sh*t, and walk right out the bathroom. At least at a urinal there is (hopefully) minimal fecal matter.
1. You have to touch the penis, and no matter how clean you are, it is going to be covered by bacteria in that region. 2. There will be some splash involved, and urine is not sterile.
Load More Replies...I feel like retail workers should get 1 "F you" each day and if they don't use it, it carries over
Thankfully due to having to socially chameleon... I developed a "mask" for idiots. I like calling it "Clyde mode" where I simply verbally gun down the idiocy like a Thomson machine gun of conversation. I end it with "let's blow this pop stand Bonnie" leaving them stunned.
I never realized until I retired how utterly exhausted I (introvert) was from having dealt with people extensively in my profession. LOVE not peopling unless I WANT.
Haha! Like you can ever REALLY delete anything on Google/Gmail! Google NEVER forgets!
Load More Replies...All you'd need to do is order some things online and wait. I have thousands of unread emails from all the times I bought that one thing from that place . . .
That's why I still have my Yahoo account, all the junk goes there
Load More Replies...I've had 48K emails, deleted all... Next morning Gmail reloaded them!!!
I'm currently over 48,000. My internet at home went out for a bit in 2020 so I got out of the habit of checking it. Internet at work was really bad, too, to the point where I couldn't really check my e-mail. Occasionally I go in and grab what I need, but it's a jungle in there.
Hah! I worked for a guy once, about 1977 who was kinda like the Godfather. There was an OLD woman who had been the office manager since the Big Bang and everything office-wise went through her. When he went into her office to talk to her he had to look over her desk to do it and it ground his gears. We were having lunch once and I asked him why he had a problem with her, he said "she intimidates me and I hate that". I laughed like hell.
This is why I stopped bringing food for people. Bought a delicious, expensive pie at a local bakery for a pot luck. No one had any. Meant more for me, but damn, that sorta hurt.
I think it suggests they helped themselves to the fries first
Load More Replies...A horse, with the camera by its ear and angled towards the mouth
Load More Replies...That's the fry tax! Those were YOUR fries, payment for picking up everyone's food. I thought everyone knew about the fry tax.
Ah, yes. The famous waffle fries. Ummmm. None of those would have made it back to the office. They are the only thing that makes Chik-Fil-A worthwhile.
I just woke up, haven't had a full cup of coffee yet, and I read those last few words as "hostage on a pig farm." Still, I don't think I'm wrong...
Happened just once in my life and saw my manager looking at us. There was no expression on his face but for some reason I felt like puking. Never let that happen again
Attractive people at work who think fake flirting to get you to do something for them is appropriate.
Room 101 also has the context of a place to put things thet hate and never want to see again, which was the theme of UK TV and Radio shows of the same name. Named by George Orwell in "1984" as the room containing "the worst thing in the world".
!984 has only been read by people in the UK of course...
Load More Replies...How do companies even get people to work for them? All the people I have worked with in last 20 years will quit the day such a message is circulated, including me.
My team says, "Hey Friday, I will be out on the 9th and 10th. Go in to the payroll system and approve it," and then they send me a calendar item that reminds they will be off work. In the last 11 years, I have had to deny PTO once, and that was because the person had used all of their PTO, borrowed from next year's allotment and still asked for a week off. She left the company soon after that and was big mad that her borrowed PTO came out of her last check.
That would imply that someone wanted to work in the first place xD
Load More Replies...I can't count how many times I've had coworkers ask and assume my daughter is going to work at my job. NO!
Bold of you to assume your $hit a$$ company will be still around in 18 years.
Lotus Notes, now, that's a name I've not heard in a long time. A long time.
Load More Replies...I used to speak first.. something random about the topic and then remain quiet the rest of the meeting. Every one remembers I spoke so that should be all.
Hmmm, let's see. She got treated like a glorified coffee b***h, was constantly groped & sexually harassed, tried to poison her boss...yeah she completely had it easy lol.
And if you fail at poisoning your boss, you get to see HR.
Load More Replies...What I love is the 2-3 half donuts. Jeeeeez..take the whole thing and eat the other 1/2 later. Reminds me of my grandson..daughter is an HR person who needed to do a Saturday shift. Bought a dozen, since she had no child care that day, took Ivan in with her. Left him and the dozen in a conference room, came back...EVERY one had a bite taken out. BTW the purple ones were "VERY tasty".
Hey, don't be putting these ideas out there or one day you're gonna be sorry when ChatGPT is like "Hold my beer..."
ARGH! I had two of my managers leave on vacation and they both logged out on google docs and I'm but a lowly serf who does not warrant a proper account with access to do the things I need to do while they're gone.
On the flip side of this, I have a set of resources on a Google Drive with 'anyone with the link can view settings' and I get requests almost every day for editor access from randos. I have a professional automated reply for this situation, but I would really like to tell them to f*ck all the way off and stop bothering me
Apologies for the confusion... (aka) If you'd read it properly or listened to the instructions/information the first time....
Living a long time in corporate. Normally we mail on first name basis. My colleges have caught on that when I address them as Mister Last Name they have goofed up.
I don't hate any day of the week, unless half my team is out. Then I really want to wake up sick.
That's how I feel when I get a text. Very few people know my cell phone number.
I once accidentally yawned out of boredom and had forgotten that I wasn't muted. Luckily, a yawn can always be excused with being tired... ;-)
Uh... it's not particularly bad, it's just that I have no idea what it's trying to say.
Something about how cranberry juice will make you feel better when the last email u send in a day starts with "as per my last email"? Idk, it's weird
Load More Replies...Right? Like a French person would randomly come up & speak with you. 🤭 J'rigole!
Load More Replies...Oof! Just in time to get to work. Maybe on time. Maybe late. Just call in sick. It'll be believable this time.
Dr_g addicts are like that. Most buttheads do a full pack a day, 20 in 16 hours.
Load More Replies...That's fair, they(the company) won't realize what they had until they lose it, the manager's just letting them know that the pay/conditions/benefits aren't up to par in an effective way
My boss at Nestlé said I was "brusque". Boy the revelations after they walked my brusque a*s out. "So who is in charge of this???" LOL
"I posses all the simplicities, including that of brusqueness." - Nero Wolfe
My supervisor's desk was in a row with a bunch of others, so the day before she came back from vacation, we hid her desk in a room and then spaced the others so there were no gaps. The 80s were a fun time.
I find i'm at optimum if I sleep 4 hours, work 4 hours, sleep 2 hours, work 4 hours, repeat until I die or retirement.
Sounds depressing, yet I think it´s dying for me before retirement if they keep upping the age especially xD Not to forget: retirement isn´t necessarily about age but about if you can afford to retire :(
Load More Replies...Demanding experience these days is just a trap they set to explain why you're going to be making the bottom end of the salary scale. Because you don't have 25 years of experience in the program that's existed for only 5 years, they can only give you $15 an hour instead of the promised $100 an hour. Tough break! Maybe you can get a raise in 2 years to $16 an hour though!
plot twice: last name starts with an "h" and the company email policy is first name plus initial of last name...
One of the chefs I worked wit used to work for Rogue Brewing. Naming them because they really suck. Picture New Years Eve. The owner's son calls the pub and the phone rings FOUR TIMES. ALL STAFF meeting at 9AM New Years Day with less than 10hr notice. My buddy told them to get bent and got fired for it. I completely understand. Also did I mention Rogue Brewing SUCKS?
When it comes to PowerPoint presentations, "duck" is the more useful word.
Load More Replies...Like a deck of cards, as opposed to He called me a wazzock, so I decked him.
I read this wiki page as astrology for numbers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/11:11_(numerology)
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