Who you work with can have a massive impact on your mood, as well as your motivation. If you’re all friendly with lots of your colleagues, it can make even the toughest day at the office seem fun. On the flip side, if you’re working under a toxic boss, alongside folks who are trying to get you fired, it’s only natural that you might be updating your resume during work hours.
Whatever your workplace experience might be, it’s likely that you’re not in this alone. ‘Work Memes’ is a very active Facebook group full of people who love sharing relatable, witty, and insightful memes about—yup, you guessed it!—work life. We’ve compiled a list of their freshest pics to share with you. Scroll down to check them out and don’t forget to upvote your faves!
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Melanie, a stroke of genius. Don't go up in any high buildings for a while.
The ‘Work Memes’ group has grown immensely over the years. Founded back in late 2020, it had 564k members in March 2023 the last time Bored Panda featured it. Now, at the time of writing, the community has grown to nearly 1.1 million in size.
Nearly doubling the number of members in just half a year is incredibly impressive and this is a testament to how relatable and funny the content is. What’s more universal than moaning about work after an exhausting day earning money for someone else, after all?
Definition: Minimum Wage. "If I could get away with paying you less, I would. Now get back to work. I need another yacht."
Fun Fact: there is nothing unethical about lying to your boss or employer about things which are none of their f*****g business.
Anyone hoping to become part of this expanding community has to promise to treat all the other members with kindness and respect. The administrator and moderator team enforcing the rules insists that there is “literally never any reason” for bullying or hate speech. The goal is to create a welcoming environment for everyone.
The ‘Work Memes’ team also expects everyone to only post work-related content. Anything random, related to politics, or spammy will end up getting removed. When in doubt, remind yourself of the Facebook group’s name!
If you’ve made friends at the office, that’s wonderful! However, it’s quite likely that sooner or later you’ll have to work with someone who you’re less thrilled about. They might have a work ethic that’s at odds with yours, ignore your boundaries, or tell inappropriate jokes. Whatever the case might be, they're not someone that you want to spend much time with. However, working at a company means that you can’t always pick your colleagues. You need to learn to get along with someone you may actively dislike.
Fun games for office returnees: how many times a day can I poop on company time?
Having a job and a lot of month over at the end of your pay cheque.
Fundamentally, it’s good communication that helps you solve issues both in the workplace and outside of it. So if a coworker of yours is making your life miserable, you need to confront them in some way. Of course, you should stay professional and diplomatic even if your first instinct might be to passively-aggressively mock them. The calmer you are, the quicker the entire situation can be resolved.
Does it afford me the ability to barely gather enough necessities to extend my hellish existence to the very end of my working years, at which point I will die in squalor?
My alarms never wake me up, possibly because I’m awake at 4am
‘Indeed’ suggests avoiding blame as much as humanly possible. Ideally, you won’t go about accusing your coworkers of this and that (even if they’re completely guilty of bad behavior and awful work practices). Instead, you should explain how you feel when they behave or speak a certain way. By putting the emphasis on yourself, you’re laying the groundwork for possible peace and compromise.
Though it’s easy to think that we’re always in the right, objectively, that’s not always the case. In real life, situations are often nuanced, they’re rarely black and white, with a clear-cut hero and villain. So even if you don’t feel like it, it’s worth talking to your colleague from hell in order to get their perspective on things.
Try to actively listen to your colleagues and what they’re trying to tell you. Not only will this help you during any future conversations with them but you might also realize that you have more in common with them than you think. Colleagues from hell can seem very human after a genuine heart-to-heart conversation with them. You might not become the fastest of friends, but you may be able to have enough respect for each other to forget your enmity and get on with your work.
Or unfairly higher pay, and I can built recognition and training myself.
If all else fails and you’re still not friends or even lukewarm acquaintances, it might be time to change your approach. Depending on how serious the issue at work is, you may want to (and have to!) get your superiors and the human resources team involved. Usually, in more serious situations, it really helps if you have some sort of evidence to provide about how you’ve been mistreated or harassed.
Obviously, if management is unwilling or unable to solve the friction between you and your coworker, you can always look for a job in another department or even a different company. But that’s a measure of last resort, it’s not something you want to lead with immediately.
Argh...when I get sick it's always the weekends. Starts somewhere between Thursday arvo and Friday evening. But the temp/fever is always gone by Monday....😟
Alternatively, you could try to accept your colleagues for who they are, with all of their personality quirks. Nobody’s perfect and so long as they’re not actively harming you, you could try coexisting in peace. Try to be more mature and compassionate. If you’ve tried getting to know them and you still don’t enjoy their company, you could simply limit your interactions with them, instead focusing your time and energy on your workplace friends. You know, the people you’d send these memes to give them a break during work hours!
I actually found things that i like to do, really good at, and it makes money. The office rules managed to took all the fun and turn it into a dreadful job that I'll hate forever.
Nice title. Why do people make the effort of capitalising every word when you don't need to?
Try harder! Money can express a lot of things, if you are able to find the right figure.
I used to be in this situation, but in the left side, when I was an education manager. The correct perspective is: "I need something from you, and I have something that will compensate you".
This is what my DM did, my company is hiring anyone to take shifts at our site, I'm a security guard, and after gaining full time once except, oops dm didn't know the hiring manager hired someone for that spot and then the promise broken for full time 2 more times i finally got full time and wouldn't you know it, everyone had been telling the dm it was the pay not the hours, they shifted everyone's hours and when we planned to walk out he finally relented to let us stagger shifts per our shift manager's direction, yanno who had been managing the site for 14 years and went through 3 companies before this security company because the site company wanted to keep him and his officers.
I'd trade going to office for going to the gym. And i absolutely hate gym, let alone doing it 8 hours a day. That's how much i hate offices.
I love one of my coworkers to death but sometimes she tries to talk full conversations as soon as she walks in and i'm like "girl, no..."
It's gotten to the point where I get angry at meetings being set before at least 10 a.m.
I feel this one! I hate nothing more than getting to the office, and people are already asking me how I am when I haven't taken off my backpack yet. Like, can I just arrive in peace, please?!
Try a husband at 7 in the morning. Mister, I don't even have a voice yet, I am not conversating about the latest piece of aggravating news at 7 in the morning!
Especially when you're opposites. Me, being a non-morning person would get paired up with someone who is bright and bushy up at the crack of dawn and ready to go wanting to tell me their adventures as soon as we get in.
What?? I like those office conversations. Usually i try to keep them going until 5pm. Also I'm introvert so that says a lot about my job.
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the "everyone must hate their job, and all bosses are evil" thing is a bit sad, though.
I loved my job but my bosses found ways to make it horrible
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Great for you, but other people need to vent and these posts are at least funny. I think most people can relate at least somewhat.
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Never forget: two weeks notice is a courtesy, not a requirement.
It depends where you live, in my country it's mandatory for some forms of employment (and usually a month or three, depends how long have you been with the company).
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the "everyone must hate their job, and all bosses are evil" thing is a bit sad, though.
I loved my job but my bosses found ways to make it horrible
Load More Replies... Great for you, but other people need to vent and these posts are at least funny. I think most people can relate at least somewhat.
Load More Replies... Never forget: two weeks notice is a courtesy, not a requirement.
It depends where you live, in my country it's mandatory for some forms of employment (and usually a month or three, depends how long have you been with the company).
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