“Work Sucks, Let’s Laugh About It”: 50 Relatable Work Memes To Help You Get By

Truer words have never been spoken.

I spend roughly half of my work day on BP and other s**t, and I still get more done than other coworkers. But I refuse to put every ounce of effort into work because I work for a company that employs 30,000+ people and they will squeeze the life out of me if I let them. So I refuse to let them.

And the lazy ones end up in management

I'd rather work for a salary and get things done by deadlines than trying to fit in as much work as I can into 8 hours each day.

I call it the Curse of Competency.

Excuses me, why isn't this on top?

I have to print this on a shirt...

L9ve it!

Needs to be a t-shirt.

Always remember a customer that I had fitted carpets for saying, "lucky for you it was such an easy job" I said "after twenty years it's weird how the more I do the job the easier it gets"

A woman calls in a plumber when her washing machine breaks down. The plumber arrives, studies the machine, then produces a hammer and gives it a hefty whack. The washing machine starts working again and the plumber presents a bill for £200. 'Two hundred pounds?' says the woman. 'All you did was hit it with the hammer.' So the plumber gives her an itemised bill: 'Hitting washing machine with a hammer - £5. Knowing where to hit it - £195.'

That's why companies want to pay you for your time and are so anxious about getting the full time out of you. They know perfectly well that it becomes a better deal for them the longer you keep working for them. Every month you work you become faster and better, making less mistakes. And it doesn't matter what you do, this is true for every single job. But they also don't want you to work for them past your 50s. Because they also know that your age will slowly slow you down after that. They want to pay you beginners wages for master output. And they don't want to see you missing even one minute, despite them already getting the better deal. That's what makes the rich richer. Back in the days, the guilds made sure that you were paid by job, not per hour, because this was fair. That way, a master could earn more than a beginner, by simply working faster. Which is fair. But nowadays many people drink the company cool aid and believe the lie that only the duration of work should be paid.

This is what we have to explain to patients who complain at our prices. That and I have yet to receive a screenshot of the actual time you were on the phone... It was longer than the 30 seconds you claim.

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Very relatable!

incredibly true. And you are forced to sit next to someone who really things they have a lot of talent.

"I will put up with pain and misery as long as I get sufficient compensation"

But with a meeting, you have nothing to show for it but contempt.

Retail feels just as bad.

Fun idea, but I wouldn't feel right putting my friends through that misery.

We've got 'bring your kids to work day', and I'm sure 'take your friend to work day' is soon to be in the future. HR would make a day out of it to see who they'd like to hire.

"So YOU'RE the clown he talks about all the time! (my friend to my boss.)

Where are my friends?? 😅😃🥲🫠😭

The characters in my work stories are all evil villains - I doubt my friends would want to meet them.

True words

this

"GUYS!! I'm letting you know NOW I'm going to be GONE NEXT WEEK....OK?!?!"

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BAHAHAHAHAHA! Love it.

Fun fact: Here in rural Germany it could happen to be just the truth. There are some villages with no public transportation at all at the weekend..

Monday'ish

Ask 'Will this be time and a half for the first 2 hours and the rest double time and a half? Or are they just stealing money from you? I had an employer tell everyone to come in on the weekend to do a major clean of the office. No one showed and he was FURIOUS! Bahahahaha! Effing idiot.

If you can WFH, you're not allowed to be 100% sick.

I have no sick days banked. I have been in the hospital 3 times in the past 3 years and used all my days. Had to take unpaid sick time, which I have used 4 out of 5 this year. HR told me I needed to plan ahead and save days. I told them that would be easier if people who had sick days used them instead of coming to work sick and sharing the joy.

Once or twice a year a lawyer friend would call at 5 AM and ask me to "call in" and meet him down at the Torch Club, one of the many 6 AM bars in Sacramento and I would be hammered by 11 and I'd be home in bed by noon.

Calling out sick because you can't that day. Mental health days are sick days.

I used to feel like this every time I got sick, in every job I have had, then got a new supervisor who believes in taking sick time and taking vacation time and only working during actual work hours, even fusses at me if I work through a few minutes of my lunch. He keeps telling me that I work too hard and need to take time off - I feel like I’m in some Twilight Zone episode, in a good way, but it is totally weird!!

We're censoring "stupid" now? How stupid.

Not bad but leaves you open for "Sorry if I'm going too fast for you".

I usually just call them an idiot. Works every time.

Learn on-demand eye twitching.

Yes!!! I have used this phrase so much with stupid ideas for efficiency

Hands down, best thing about having kids.

Not so simple..

Yea not that most people (predominantly women) feel super bad and guilty everytime they have to do it and then work in the evening to make up lost time. And yea sure it’s great to rush back from the office after school called to tell you your kid is sick / injured etc. Super stupid and ignorant post that one.