50 Hilarious Memes For Anyone Who Has Ever Worked A Day In Their Life
Interview With ExpertImagine you could go to work, earn a salary, then go home and completely disconnect—and totally forget—what you do for a living, and that you even have a job. Almost like wiping your mind clean at the end of each shift. The Apple TV series Severance centers around this idea. It follows a group of office workers whose memories have been surgically divided between their work and personal lives.
It’s fictional, obviously. But interestingly, a recent survey has found that 70% of people polled said they’d be “Severed” in exchange for an annual starting salary of $100,000. HR experts say this openness to trading consciousness for compensation says a lot about how people feel about modern work…
If you feel like you want to undergo surgery so that you can forget all about work, we can’t help you there, I’m afraid. But we do have something that might make you temporarily forget you’re supposed to be working right now. There’s an online community called Work Memes. You guessed it. They share hilarious and sometimes painfully relatable memes about that "W" word that we shall not mention (for a moment, at least). Bored Panda has put together our favorites from the page, for when you need to dip out of the reality of your 9-5. We also spoke to David Rice, an HR expert at People Managing People about why so many people wish "Severance" was a real thing.
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The problem is , they d0...using YOUR money and that of everyone else who donated at the register. And then they give themselves a hefty tax write-off.
And probably wait till the end if the year to donade, so they get intrest on the money as well?
Load More Replies...Used to work at Taco Bell, they straight up told women who worked there to smile and flirt to gain "good reviews". Never once saw a male coworker asked to smile and flirt to gain review points. Even if the guy was especially cute. Being polite, courteous, and doing their job was good enough for men, but women were expected to make whores of themselves for good reviews.
You must be new here if you expect the content to match the title.
Load More Replies...The problem with this way of thinking is that people like her believe only the rich should give. Sometimes people sacrifice their last 5 dollars to help others. Not this person.
Where I live there are always charity representatives trying to get you to sign up for a direct debit, but they won't take a cash donation then and there. They're paid for this. On the way out of the supermarket you are pounced on again by the same person who clearly doesn't pay attention and it's really embarrassing. I d0 give to several charities but when I go grocery shopping I'm worried enough as it is as to how much I can spend, without being guilt-tripped into being tied into a commitment I can't afford.
I scream back at them to stop yelling at me!!! Then tell them doing this is such a trigger. The only ones I don't have an issue with are the Vets, they sit quietly and only talk if you go up to them.
Load More Replies...I actually wonder if that money goes to feed the hungry or if the stores just pay themselves for the day old bread they already donate to food pantries.
But they don't donate food.. they destroy it. Same with restaurants or all food related industry
Load More Replies...What makes it even worse is that those of us who are competent don't want to work important jobs because it means dealing with the incompetence of others.
Ha! The White House and US government has more criminals and convicted felons than your average county jail.
Used to work at Taco Bell, they straight up told women who worked there to smile and flirt to gain "good reviews". Never once saw a male coworker asked to smile and flirt to gain review points. Even if the guy was especially cute. Being polite, courteous, and doing their job was good enough for men, but women were expected to make whores of themselves for good reviews. People who sit on their a*s, and get paid a 6 figure income for talking. Don't care if it is news, sports, celebrity bs,. You literally get paid for flapping your lips about s**t you don't give two s***s about. Meanwhile, people who work there butts off get paid minimum wage.
This was hardest for me when A: I worked for an oil company and B: when I worked for a major brand name entertainment (movies/video games) company. I truly expected these places to be meritocracies where the best and brightest were in charge of projects and where everyone knew what they were doing. Really, some j*****s who is buddies with the people in charge gets made into the boss and everyone else just figures it out as they go along. It's all a c*********k all the time, always. So always appreciate it when you get onto a team that gets s**t done and isn't toxic
My 12yo recently learned this. On the bus ride home a truck clipped the bus's mirror and all the adults apparently acted dumb and had no idea what to do about it.
"employees are promoted based on their success in previous jobs until they reach a level at which they are no longer competent, as skills in one job do not necessarily translate to another."
Used to work at Taco Bell, they straight up told women who worked there to smile and flirt to gain "good reviews". Never once saw a male coworker asked to smile and flirt to gain review points. Even if the guy was especially cute. Being polite, courteous, and doing their job was good enough for men, but women were expected to make whores of themselves for good reviews.leople who sit on their a*s, and get paid a 6 figure income for talking. Don't care if it is news, sports, celebrity bs,. You literally get paid for flapping your lips about s**t you don't give two s***s about. Meanwhile, people who work there butts off get paid minimum wage.
So many places (a) won't tell you the salary range or (b) blatantly lie about it.
How far would you go to achieve a perfect work/life balance? That’s the question Apple TV’s critically acclaimed series “Severance” aimed to explore. If you’ve never heard of the Emmy Award-winning show directed by Ben Stiller, here’s the synopsis, according to Rotten Tomatoes:
“Lead character Mark leads a team of office workers whose memories have been surgically divided between their work and personal lives; when a mysterious colleague appears outside of work, it begins a journey to discover the truth about their jobs.”
A recent survey by Human Resources platform People Managing People found that many viewers are more than intrigued to give the memory-splitting procedure a go. The poll of more than 200 workers across the globe revealed that almost a quarter (21%) of people say they ‘definitely would’ or ‘probably would’ be willing to accept the procedure—while a big majority (70%) of workers said they would be ‘Severed’ for a wage of $100,000 a year.
We asked People Managing People's Human Resources expert David Rice what inspired them to conduct the survey... "The series presents a dystopian workplace where people are willing to alter the function of their minds to be able to live separate lives from their work," he said. "This is an interesting time to present the survey, because increasingly people are feeling the drain on their personal lives that modern work presents and how the demands of serving capitalism have simply become too much for a lot of people."
I'm so much more productive working from home it's not even funny.
Rice believes we're encountering a time where workers are presented with ethical dilemmas in how they experience and complete their work. AI is part of that, he says, and it's making work for a lot of people less about creativity or ingenuity and more about the volume of what they can do. The HR expert tells us it's a recipe for burnout.
"We're only a few years away from the trans-humanism movement in which things like the neura-link could change the function of human's brains and how we work. Add in the politics of the day, and it kind of feel likes we're headed toward dystopian workplace tropes you might see in shows like Severance or Black Mirror," Rice told Bored Panda. "So we wanted to see where people are with this concept given so many are struggling with things like burnout, separating work and life and overall satisfaction with what they're doing for a living. I think the results really illustrate that in a unique way."
I also come to be around people who are struggling to get through life just like me
Good on ya but just be mindful of those who do cuz theyve no choice. Not gonna downvote cuz I know it may not have been intended this way but i reckon those people see it as boasting or smt.
Load More Replies...I read that as consomme feculence and now I'm gonna use it.
Load More Replies...i AM living the dream. i just don't know whose it is coz it sure as hell isn't mine
Yes. It's a still from the "Outer Limits" episode "The Invisible Enemy".
Load More Replies...When people ask how I’m doing, I always have the same reply. “I’m Surviving but not thriving”
I started working from since first covid lockdown and i have become permanent home worker. My job performance is better I don't need to get up too early no morning commute I love it I wouldnt want to go back to the office at all
Same here. Plus - my husband also works from home, so we actually have some time to interact during the day, when it's quiet (kids are at school) and we're not dead tired.
Load More Replies...But if we work from home the office will get lonely. Working from home encourages vampirism. Studies have shown that people who work from home spend more time at home. Some bosses get lonely and cwrdboard cutouts just dont cut it anymore.
Bosses want people at the office to justify the office and because they believe they have better control, irrespective of whether people are more or less productive. Sure some people can take advantage of remote work but the vast majority are happier and therefore produce better work, faster. My boss insists we work from the office so i insist on producing inferior work, slower :)
I just started a hybrid schedule and work from home 2 days a week. I'm finding that I'm much more productive on those days! There are far fewer interruptions and I can concentrate on my work.
On the topic of results, 34% of those surveyed said they would consider having the "Severance" procedure if they were paid more than $500,000. It also emerged that Gen Z is the age group most willing to undergo the procedure for money. Only 13% of 18-24-year-olds said they would not consider it. Over a third of Gen X and Millennial respondents said they either ‘definitely would’ or ‘probably would’ accept the procedure.
"There are a lot of factors at play here," says Rice. "For one, work has become increasingly demanding of people. I recently saw a poll asking how many hours on average you work and the number one answer across thousands of respondents was 50 hours."
The expert told Bored Panda that it's a significant chunk of anyone's life. But yet, for many, they're barely living pay-check to pay-check and struggling to cover the cost of living.
Rice says that when workers are giving more but getting less than what they're used to, or not the same as what previous generations experienced, it can be more than a bit demoralizing.
Hell would have fewer Software Change Review Board meetings and better coffee.
This is not Hell... this is where we got sent because we were BAD in Hell.
Load More Replies...Yeah well if I died and went to hell, it , would take close to 4 years to realize I wasn’t in the USA anymore.
No, not since the kid looked around the office and asked, loudly, "Daddy, where are all the clowns you always tell us about?"
Or alternatively, staring at Laura sipping her coffee "but you said Laura drinks like a fish, but she's drinking just like an ordinary person"
Load More Replies...MIssed opportunity to use "On the gripping hand..." (obscure, I know)
The HR expert stresses that AI hasn't made things any easier for the average worker. He says, if anything, it's created more frustrations. "One is the devaluation and outsourcing to a machine... Skills that people spent years cultivating that many of them built their aspirations around. And for people who pursued a career in a field and found something that they liked, seeing those opportunities disappear or at the very least change entirely in structure, that is demoralizing. There may be jobs for them in the future, but for a lot of people, they're struggling looking at AI and seeing human obsolescence as a real challenge."
A teenager thinking that the world will be unlivable by the time they have to live on their own is not normal
Load More Replies...This is truly bizarre to me. The cashiers in the UK on whole are allowed to sit and even have a drink with them.
As a long time cashier there is absolutely nogood reason not to allow cashiers to sit. It's cruel to force people to stand in one place for hours on end. Anybody who thinks sitting cashiers are lazy has obviously never been a cashier
In germany cashiers usually sits and......people still buy there. No need to stand the whole day, that's idiotic!
Yep. At my current job they removed all chairs at the counters because they claim some customers were complaining saying we weren't properly helping them and being lazy. Same thing with having drinks nearby.
Clearly the people commenting don't realize that there are jobs out there that REQUIRE you to stand all day. Do you think that cooks, waiters/waitresses, or anyone who is in customer service outside the realm of cashier has the luxury of sitting on their asses all day? No they don't, because they have to do ACTUAL work, not just show up, sit at a computer playing games, while pretending to work and collect a nice fat paycheck.
Rice adds that there's also a lot of frustration around everything else in the world. "I think a lot of people have become disillusioned with employers, employment generally, and any sort of institution that is meant to provide value to society but which operates with another motive," he told us.
Rice says what surprised him the most about the survey results was the amount of people who named a price. "I thought that 'Definitely would not do it' would be the number one answer to the general question of if folks would do it or not, and it was," he explained. "But what was odd was that there seemed to be a breaking point where people's stance on that wasn't so firm."
He was taken aback that 68% of people indicated that some amount of money would entice them to do it, rather than answering with "no amount of money." "I think that says something very disheartening about people's sense of financial health and their overall wellbeing," Rice told Bored Panda. "There's a real disconnect there and they're not sure there's an answer to what they're experiencing, so they're not taking the severing of their consciousness off the table."
I read as I sit in a "technical" meeting that is just a repeat of our weekly meeting without our director...
I always liked the idea that for every meeting you calculate the cost of that meeting (no. of people * duration * fully burdened labour rate) and the person who called the meeting has to enter that as a direct cost against the project and be requred to justify the spend
Then when you end up doing too much work, they will employ another supervisor to "manage" your time
that's why i'm ordinary even knowing i can do more. low paycheck, low effort
Yep. You always get punished for being a good worker by getting someone else's workload too, getting refused to take PTO because you're too important for the workplace to be gone and other BS. But never forget the one moment where you're not doing well and they threaten to fire you and say "you are easilly replaced".
You're in charge. Can I fire those that don't work? No. Then I'm not in charge.
The fbi uncovered al qaedas new strategy ..sit and wait until the us burns itself down
Load More Replies...I promised myself I would never give up with pointing out potential problems but now I'm ashamed to say I couldn't care less
Oh, I even make sure to tell them twice and why. You'd think they'd learn, but every new engineer goes through it at least once. I even go and start getting the drawings of the stuff they're fixing to break together.
Load More Replies...Yup. I tell everyone. Once you tell a manager, it's no longer your problem!
Just be sure to tell them via an email, so you have proof
Load More Replies...Rice says those in HR should learn from the results of the survey. "When you have this many people willing to split themselves in half, essentially it means there's a lot of people out there who want to forget what working for you is like," he cautioned. "Additionally, I don't know if I've ever seen a piece of data that illustrates that wages haven't kept up with inflation and we need to consider what that means for people."
Rice told us that a significant chunk of respondents said they would do the procedure for less than $200k. "That's not a lot of money," he said. "That isn't even into the territory of getting some tax breaks or really solving your financial problems. The perception that it's enough to do this says to me that people aren't feeling valued and are willing to do this to overcome some basic challenges."
Rice says he'd never advise someone to "Sever" themselves, like in the Apple series. "Your work life is a part of life and vice versa, and each presents valuable lessons that will serve you in the other," the expert explained. "Any perceived pros around work life balance or compartmentalization are lost when you don't have valuable experiences informing who you are as a person."
I'm lucky as here in Europe where I work our Boss insists 'out of office' stays in place until the day after we return to give us time to get up to speed with things
Not only is this legit true but you'll also get a 15k bill next week on top of the 350$ monthly payment you've been paying all year for your health insurance and it'll be just in time for your annual deductible renewal. Oh and if you miss more than 3 days you won't have a job to go back to but that's ok because you only make $20hr. So now you can go out and find a new one in only 8 months where they'll offer you $18hr but hey... aMeRicA is the greatest country on earth right?!
And it's in the making of being even greater (again) 😀👍
Load More Replies...I’ve started switching mine on 15/20 minutes before the end of my shift, so people know in advance before I go on leave. That way if they email me at 10-to-5 on a Friday, they won’t be pissed on Monday morning when I haven’t replied, and then see the out of office and realise I’m not in. I don’t ever actually go on holiday, but make damned sure I take all of my leave days. Having zero plans and just being at home with n o t h i n g to do is so frilling relaxing.
Dude, I seriously don't understand those that rat out their coworkers. Like...you aren't getting paid enough, they aren't getting paid enough, your boss is very likely not getting paid enough, the company gives no s***s about you, and you're giving your life (social and work) to a faceless piece of s**t that will never see you. Brown nosing gets you nowhere. This isn't M*A*S*H. This isn't the 50s. Look after your own. My coworkers could nearly murder another coworker and I still wouldn't say anything unless I was served an order.
And the Devil itself is here at the gates seeking refuge from you.
Rice says the cons around "Severance" (if it were to exist) center around how this could be manipulated to ensure people work even more. "My advice would be to stand up for yourself in this life, set boundaries for your time and honor them," he told Bored Panda. "You can create what you're looking for but it will take some conscious effort."
I've found that if the survey is truly anonymous you can take it more than once. So now my practice is to fill out the survey in the most neutral way possible, and if I can take it again then I give the real answers.
I was running a survey for a charity. It really was anonymous but it stored the IP address (I couldn’t access it) so the survey could only be taken once on the same machine. But people needed to share computers and this prevented them. I managed to turn that off. And got more replies than invitations sent out 🙄
Load More Replies...Someone had tried to pull off that c**p where i work. What they didn't notice was that when they sent out the email with the link to the survey, they left the extra parameters at the end of the URL and every link had a unique identifier. The parameter also had a name like "user-id" or something like that... they thought we wouldn't see through their cunning plan :)
But you're not allowed to share the link to others and its personally generated to you! ;)
We had one of those. There were 6 people in our department not counting the manager. The HR rep would read a response and we were like - oh, tell them how you really feel, Jane. (Disclosure, there was no Jane in our department) HR rep, how do you know? Jane says that every day she works here.
He adds that your part in shaping the future of work is helping organizations see clearly what's reasonable to demand of a human being. "That shouldn't be the case, but sadly, a lot of organizations aren't seeing it for themselves," says Rice. "Exodus of good talent moving in the direction of better work and life boundaries is how they learn that lesson."
But I will accept because I need money because I am severely poor 🥲
As someone with adhd this definitely sums it up lol!
Load More Replies...Bro that's a skill mate - probably more so than most of the individuals I woirk alongside
In the UK if you don't sort out your annual leave, you boss just randomly assigns you days
At the end of October, the managers at my place all start getting antsy and telling everyone to make sure they use up all their annual leave before year end to make sure no-one misses out. I feel so sorry for our American pals.
Load More Replies...Solution: work abolishes paid time off. Ain't capitalism grand?
I had once they called me 2 years later to ask if I still was interested. And got angry when I said no.
im ready to bet they're a company who won't tolerate a report being sent in 2 years late
Load More Replies...I interviewed at a Home Depot years ago. They didn't get back to me, so my wife and I started our own business. Home Depot finally called, but we were doing pretty well by then. They called again a couple of months later. Hope they got someone
Why can't they have the basic decency to at least send a form rejection?
Secondly I would need money to afford one of the two so jot that down too
Me on the group WhatsApp which I haven't taken down yet, in spite of having been retired for eight days
As a night shifter, it's not the shift that's the problem, it's that no other life responsibilities take night shifters into account.
In my case, it was the City of Seattle, for the entire three years I worked 3rd shift, deciding that every square inch of concrete, within about a 4 mile radius of my place, had to be jackhammered. Non stop. Then, the moron up the street was building a house of nails - or so it seemed. Was using one of those pneumatic hammers, and driving two nails at a time. I honestly don't think there was any wood that made up that house when he finally finished it - about two years after I left my 3rd shift job.
Load More Replies...Loan it to a zoo for breeding purposes to repopulate the species. I've not given it away as I still retain ownership and I haven't sold it.
Rent it to the zoo to give you some passive income
Load More Replies...Questions like that are actually great, because they show you it's a place you do NOT want to work at.
Bring it to meetings where there's that guy who's always talking about "the elephant in the room".
I would need to know a lot more about a country/world where I can't give away something in my possession. What happens if I try to sell it? Does it just come back? Then I could sell it many times and wouldn't need the job. Will someone attack me? I will train the elephant to defend me (guard elephant). Is this a full grown male or female, African or Asiatic? I need details.
Collect all it's cräp and dump it on the boss' car (hopefully it's a convertible)
Lunch is my second most favorite part of the day. Leaving is my first.
Please give that advice to the District Managers that keep sending emails with "playful" highlighting, bold, or italics that seem like they were applied by a particularly aggressive toddler.
Load More Replies...I have started to ask them whether they have *met* my family. The ensuing confusion is priceless.
I once got fired during a probation period at work as I didn't have enough enthusiasm
I got fired for not doing the work on Tuesday and Friday. I was hired for Monday, Wednesday and Thursday. When stating that I only worked those three days they were expecting more effort for the other two days.
Load More Replies...Type it in the chat. Then there's a written record you contributed. Even better on Teams that retains the chat.
We still have a fax machine in the office. We never use it but occasionally we have a random fax come in.
This just shows a lack of understanding. There are several fields that fax copies are still heavily utilised.
All day, every day. They just go to an email inbox now.
Load More Replies...Ah I remember that boss. Gaye dear; not everyone lives on a main road that gets cleared, the buses aren't running, and our uniform colleagues are screaming stay home we've got enough idiots stuck on the road already.
how else do people write maurice? i mean saying "its really important to me" just sounds like you can't take a joke (even though it wasn't) like you couldn't just laugh at the typo? what an arrogant prude.
He's been home four hours and hasn't taken his bra off yet, this is serious
Everyday when I worked in Pediatrics. Side note: How is his coffee steaming?
Jerry is laughing here. people need to start using meme properly again, cause im getting mad.
No problem, retiring is dead easy. Oh you mean retiring with money? Sorry, can't help you there
I feel so lucky that I've never had an office job! I'd feel luckier if I never had any job. I haven't really had a boss in almost 20 years. It does suck a little less than the alternative
I feel so lucky that I've never had an office job! I'd feel luckier if I never had any job. I haven't really had a boss in almost 20 years. It does suck a little less than the alternative
