50 Work Memes To Laugh At While You Ignore Your Responsibilities

My actual experience.

How did you get her on Airplane mode?

Not a boomer, older gen-x. However, I'm a project manager with a 10th grade education. You're level of academic achievement is useless and irrelevant without knowledge and skill.

A degree earned on today's minimum wage

No, they can have a degree. They’ll automatically be rejected from any job they pursue that would use it. :-)

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I laughed at this one because I was laid off in 2010 along with hundreds of others after our division was offshored. I don't have a college degree but I do have a skilled trade that is always in short supply. Was able to walk in cold to a new company and after a 45 minute conversation with the manager was hired at a slightly higher rate than my old job without an employment application or a resume. Anyone who followed my advice over the years can do the same thing. p.s. I also hold a second job as a night class adjunct instructor at our community college in their Applied Science and Technology department passing along my skills. Don't say it's BS because it's basically a trade school and my experience trumps a degree any day.

Why can’t I use my MBA. I earned it by paying all of my tuition and fees myself. Working full time going to university evenings and weekends.

There is actually a show similar to that in Australia, its called "Old People’s Home for Teenagers" and it has a group of teenagers visiting an retirement home over a period of time and they get to know the 70+ year olds and the older generation get to learn about the younger generation and they work together to break down agist beliefs. Its really good, because it provides company for older people who are sometimes ignored and lonely and it helps the younger people who are struggling with independence and self worth. They learn how really the two generations are not all that different.

I love that. I've been complaining about a bunch of these comments, but really, we should be working together.

Yes, maybe a respectful sharing of knowledge and ideas would be a start rather than finger pointing.

I don't blame boomers for the state of the world (much) or for only being able to offer outdated advice. I DO get annoyed at the ones who don't REALISE the state of the world or that their advice is outdated, and assume that if someone of my generation is struggling it's entirely their fault for not following the boomers outdated advice, as opposed to "that advice doesn't work and things are very different now".

You are correct, but if folks are paying attention, there are rarely no indicators. The Greenhouse Effect was first proven twice independently in the late 1850s. And Exxon scientists themselves discovered the most extensive proof of human influenced climate change that ever existed, in the 1980s, and the suits buried it. Apparently those folks didn't find that "useful"

The culture has changed. That sort of approach doesn't work anymore. I once had a boss who would automatically disqualify anyone who called to check on an application because they were "wasting her time".

It's interesting because all of the job opportunities I've gotten farthest with have NEVER been the ones ive written custom cover letters for and tweaked my resume to fit. No one wants that. After searching for two years my jobs have been one click apply. No cover letter. Just a single resume. Then again you have 30 years of expirence, making you inherently more valuable than a 24 year old desperately trying to get ANY expirence. Jeez almost as if having decades of expirence to boast makes you easier to higher... especially considering 90% of companies want you to have minimum 2-3 for any entry level job. Also as people have mentioned... lots of places would immediately throw out your application if you tried to waste thejr time sending a follow up. We are having breakdowns because, well atleast I, spent my first week of job hunting writing CV's from SCRATCH for each job, getting not even a cursory "we aren't moving forward." After spending 30 minutes on the application.

Not if the cat is the one who brings in the food.

I’ve definitely had time periods where affording dog food was not in my budget on occasion. During those times, I would still be cooking for myself so would make the healthiest options possible without ingredients the dog couldn’t eat so that we could both eat from my single serving meals. That and I kept peeled hard boiled eggs in the fridge and no matter what, doggo would get one per day. He loved eggs. And now I’m missing my sweet boy. Damn the hit and run driver that took him from me while I was in the hospital and doggy was being dog sat.

And ironically, you can't declare your cat as a dependant.

I can't agree more! I had to share my foie gras with my cats this week...

My cat is strange. She doesnt like people food. Not even chicken or fish.

So monstrous corporate profits and rampant real estate speculation have nothing to do with any of it?

Thanos is at it again.