Just like work is necessary and never-ending, so are the memes and the sources of them online. You can say that it’s a certain kind of symbiotic ecosystem where one both empowers and leeches from the other and vice versa.
This time around, the memes are coming from @work_problems_, an Instagram page that is very appropriately dedicated to work memes with a following of nearly 11,000 people.
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Or to show you how to get the hard work done by yourself so your boss can claim all the credit
Oh, the delusion that people didn’t work as much in the “olden days”. They did. Let’s look at farm work. My great grandparents had a dairy farm. The animals needed tending all year around and they grew their own food, which had to be preserved and canned. In the fall, the men would travel out west to work the wheat harvest for cash. In the winter, the animals still needed to be tended, snow shovelled, butchering done, buildings built and any repairs done. My great grandmother had ten children so she was pregnant or nursing for the better part of 25 years. For them, they consider leisure if they were sitting down sewing or mending harness. Believe me, with your 40 hours work week (or 50 hour), you are working less than they ever did.
I don't think having to share food with your cat is dependent on income. I think it's dependent on having a cat.
Me: I emailed you the report. Half the people I email: You forgot to attach the report.
Every decade or so, I pick a new theme for my passwords so that I have a relatively limited pool of potential passwords to remember, while still making them more secure than average; previous theme was Star Wars, so I'd have passwords like GENGrievous3#5% or Obi1Kenobi88*! or the like. I have a different theme these days ;)
You know, dress codes in offices make no sense. I mean, if you're not interacting with anyone on the customer end, why should it matter?
That is the correct answer in my opinion. I'm highly motivated by money, you want someone highly motivated, well then highly pay me and everyone will win.
My response in this kind of situation: Go ahead and fire me, I was looking for a job when I found this one.
I was a self employed business owner. My social security income is more than my business income during COVID. Retirement was a no brainer.
They’ll kick you to curb to save a buck while you’re still very much alive.
Case in point - Hasbro. Right before Christmas, they laid off 1500 employees, at the same time rewarding their three top officers with 22M in bonuses.
Nope, hold it until halfway through the meeting, go pee, then just check your email real quick because you can always find something that needs to be dealt with immediately, and show up right before the meeting ends. Do this for every meeting and you'll look like a really dedicated employee and you can get out of going to useless meetings.
Can you explain to me how you came to this conclusion? = WHAT THE LITERAL F**K WE'RE YOU THINKING?!!!
Company glues a sign to the window, "Closed today because nobody wants to work".
Here I am wondering if she remembered to include 9 months for human gestation in her math. (Also covering up some negative comments).
literal tornado outside, people still thinking they could order food at the restaurant I worked in at the time.
There’s always that one with 1 million questions at the end. That’s when I got in trouble for just hitting exit.
Too many years in a career where I never took more than two days off in a row for this very reason.
Me: "Well, all I know is I watch shows on screens and you're on a screen right now. So, you tell me which of us is wrong Mr. Big Shot."
“Everyone” as in you won’t go grocery shopping, eat out or travel during that time? Or “everyone” as in only white collar workers?
Worked here for too many years and learned the meaning of this motto on day 2.
The one thing worse than waking up on Monday to go to work, is waking up on Monday and not having work to go to.
In some ways this makes sense if you really need to play the extreme highs and lows at the same time. It would be hard to reach both ends of a piano at once.
I once had to fly to Puerto Rico for a week, and we all spent the entire week in a room together... on a Zoom call. A Zoom call with each other in the same room. This cost taxpayer money. No offense to PR - the food is killer, though I didn't have a chance to see any sights - but I didn't appreciate that one bit.
I'm guessing USD360k - if so that's about 550k Australian - imagine how happy we'd be if a house cost that?!?! - for those that don't know, we're lucky to find one for double that in a major city.
And "Evian" is the mirror of "naive", so, you're not fully naive until you've bought Evian. Assuming your country has a clean water supply, ofc
"Leaders" where i work want exactly that... They don't want to hear about anything.😐
And thinking “what kind of b******t is the boss gonna start with tomorrow”
The funny thing is a lot of employers only check to see if you really worked somewhere. Getting/providing more info than that is a liability minefield.
Do the hours during the week you aren’t at work not count as “freedom”?
Nver underestimate the advantage of overtime. Wife was SAH, raised 2 kids on working 7 days/wk.
It's been such a long time since I've had an in person interview that I assumed the belly growl was so loud, the mic picked it up.
Or when you have to train your new boss about exactly what you do (double points if they're not qualified to do it themselves)
If there's one thing in life that's even worse than work it's works' social events.........
To be fair, when this was happening, it was either through scamming people or getting into crypto really early. Similar to stocks, it's also hard to cash out on crypto and have it retain its value. Not saying I don't get the sentiment, but the crypto millionaire hype has caveats to it.
That's because we demonized unions. Then made it harder to join and collective bargain. The corporation and politicians have half the country thinking it's the unions who are screwing you. The only reason we all don't work 72 hours 6 days a week is because of unions.
