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50 Relatable Memes That Perfectly Capture Work Life
Do what you love and you'll never work a day in your life. Oh, if only it were that easy! In reality, millions of people take whatever jobs they can get—just to put food on the table. And even those who adore what they do sometimes have days they wish they could hit snooze and go right back to sleep. Or skip that "quick" Zoom call that somehow always spirals into a two-hour existential crisis.
Whether you’re currently procrastinating a task you’ve been avoiding for weeks, taking a “mental health break” between meetings, or just need to escape the absurdity that is your 9-to-5 life, you've come to the right place...
Bored Panda has pulled the best memes from a Facebook page called Work Meme of the Day. It has more than 544,000 members comforting each other with painfully relatable memes about the highs and lows of being gainfully employed. It’s like a support group. But without the talking. So get ready to laugh, cry, or maybe even reconsider your entire career path as you scroll through the list. Don't forget to upvote your favorites!
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goose_10:
Hi neighbor. I love this delivery guy too. Looking good!
Sss_mithy:
If you get enough, you should make him a little calender of himself for the holidays.
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Dawn Reid:
My dog turns his head away when I give him a kiss before I leave for work he won't even look at me.
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dinasaursinlove:
Spoiler alert: Joe was the accident.
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Dean J. Vlahos:
Took 3 to replace me and they were still calling me 18 months LATER, to ask ME questions about THEIR systems.
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Kalani Allen:
Got it backwards.
Employee does minimal or unskilled work.
Company pays accordingly.
Want more pay? Add value. When you make your organization more money from your labor they will increase pay.
Vegard Witsø:
The logic breaks down when the skilled and diligent employee does take on extra responsibility: If he's lucky, his title might inflate a bit, but his wage typically doesn't just by itself. He has to demand it. Not so easy to do, if you are the diligent type. And you see it everythere around you: There's plenty of people working 60 hours weeks, who aren't rich. And amongst rich people, many enough aren't working hard at all. There's no connection between working hard and getting paid.
Matthew Savestheworld 1 year ago
When you make more money for your company... they will say thank you. But they WILL NOT pay you more
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Liz Griffin:
It was a dark and stormy night when she wandered along the beach looking for, oh wait what! A car, damn it could have been a love story 🤔😢😂😏😉
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howdylee 1 year ago
Was at a brewpub in Dayton recently. The place had no waiters, you had to stand in line to place your order, had to seat yourself, had to go pick up your own food, AND had to bus your own table! I gave a $1 tip for each beer they poured, but nothing more! That wasn't service, even McDonald's will bring your order to you!
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David Estes:
Then you get someone that can't speak English.
Ray Searcy:
Then they want you to answer a survey.
detective miller's hat 1 year ago
And if you get someone who doesn't speak English, the reception is also always horrendous, so neither of you can hear the other properly.
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Michael Cass Baron Moss:
Trying to match my pay scale 🤣
Julie Harris:
That’s a get ya fired comment right there! 😅
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the_hustlin_honey:
To everyone who thought I looked mean but was really just angry about having to be in the office and forced to “people”, I’m sorry…..kind of…..😂😂
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Anon:
Micromanagers have too much time on their hands.
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ButtonKing:
If I ever open a restaurant of my own, this sign will be front and center.
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Tim Hull:
The cash register does the math but they still can't count the change correctly.
Leslie Thorpe:
I don’t shop where they don’t take cash. It is much easier to save when I see every dollar leave my hand.
Paul C. 1 year ago
I went into a busy bakery and bought a few tasty treats. When I gave the young lady cash and waited for change, she had a look of horror on her face. She thrust her hand into the till and gave me nearly as much change back as I'd given her in a note. I quickly worked out what it should be and gave her the difference back. She looked at me as if I was mathematical genius. Not sure how long she lasted.
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Nick FaceonFire Newman:
This is how I found myself working at Taco Bell, but being paid so little that the only way I could afford to eat Taco Bell was to take something home after my shifts.
Michael Arellano Macaraig:
It helps if your employees can become your customers. Ford paid his workers enough so that they could buy his cars given time.
Luke Branwen 1 year ago
A time will come when the insane inflation and stagnant poverty wages will make people not being able to buy anything, therefore corporations won't make profits. What then.
#34
Wesley McClure:
Not about what you know, it’s about who you know.
Paula Barrick Kohrt:
I wish there had been one class where this was mentioned. Brown nosing 101.
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Christine Wheeler:
That’s me 100%.
Multa Nocte 1 year ago
Can't upvote anything with a Kardashian in it unless they are being punched in the face. Sorry.
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Anon:
Places that pay bad have the worst rules posted around, I saw one at a supermarket that threatened to take phones off their employees if they were found using them in the restroom.
Grace Willoughby:
Way to go, Dominos… You give zero f:;$& about your employees, but make certain your branding is intact. I don’t even eat Domino’s, but I will NEVER eat it moving forward.
The Darkest Timeline 1 year ago
How in the world are they going to regulate your behavior when you’re off the clock?
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Michelle C 1 year ago
Most days, I’d be drinking a coffee sized “slept 5 to 7 hours!” There have been days where I would take the “What is sleep?” sized-coffee, though, which I know is not good!
#45
detective miller's hat 1 year ago
One Sunday night I actually tried to make my own death, and that is how I got a 2 week holiday in the home for the bewildered, a pay raise, reduced hours, and an admin assistant. :D
#47
Caretta Brockington:
3 WHOLE DAYS!!?? Whats your secret??
Stacy Lang:
Yep! Work 6 days a week and even have a side job and still can’t make it 😭
#48
Jack Kelly Kost:
It’s called mental health break. If management doesn’t want law suit stay away. Most times the washroom is the only place you can get away.
Caty Morgan:
Yeah this sign would make me go out of my way to find that poop smelling spray and spend 30 minutes in the bathroom every day and spray the hell out of it right before I come out every time. I’m only hurting myself at work by spending extra time in the bathroom so if you don’t want me to scroll TikTok during my normal bathroom visits then this is my retaliation:)
Kenneth Smith 1 year ago
Just note, it is now your job to smell my c**p. Who is in charge exactly?
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DrBronxx 1 year ago (edited)
We do the lottery twice a year. A few months ago, my wife told me she got depressed when I talked about it. That's when I knew I talked and thought about too much - not when I used ChatGPT to get advice to try and invest my imaginary money in such a way that it was low risk but with enough of a yield that my wife and I didn't have to work full-time, but when my wife said that looking that stuff up was depressing. Completely correct, but I still like to daydream.
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Multa Nocte 1 year ago
I thought it was "for fuck's sake," as the sake belongs to fuck, does it not?
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Multa Nocte 1 year ago
I think Auntie can back me up on this, but the last several months before retirement tick by AWFULLY slowly.
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Adam Watson:
What weekend?!
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Lady Eowyn 1 year ago
That's what I did. I was hired to run a corporate library, not deliver mail and water the plants in the lobby.
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SchadenFreudian Psychology 1 year ago
If the company wants to make charitable donations, they can do it out of their own money (that I paid them for the product.) Don’t tack another fee onto my bill.
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Doug Moyer 1 year ago
Four-day weekend ahead! Boom! Already planning to slip out at lunch and not return...
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Renee Fiola-Homen 1 year ago
One winter a blizzard was headed our way. It was due to hit in the morning and I worked 3-11 shift ( when it was still a thing) and the hospital i worked for at the time called the whole shift of us offering to have maintenance workers pick us up if we didn't have vehicles that were good in the snow. ( like anything is during a blizzard) well I had just bought an suv with 4 wheel drive so I declined the offer bc if we did accept the ride we would have to sleep at the hospital until the storm let up. Heck no, I clicked out after my shift and drove 20mph all the way home.
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Mike Rodrick 1 year ago
I want to meet the person who decided the length of the workday & week. I'd immediately strangle them.
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Mike Rodrick 1 year ago (edited)
Being retired & reading everyone else's work b******t makes me appreciate having it all behind me. Or I did until the cost of living became more than I had to survive & I was job hunting.
Mike Rodrick 1 year ago (edited)
Being retired & reading everyone else's work b******t makes me appreciate having it all behind me. Or I did until the cost of living became more than I had to survive & I was job hunting.
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