50 Funny Memes To Help You Get Through The Work Day

I live on Long Island and used to work with a guy who commuted via the Bridgeport ferry across the Long Island Sound to get to work because he lived in Connecticut. Even if he lived IN Bridgeport next door to the ferry, it still takes 20-30 minutes to board (you can drive your car onto the ferry), the trip across the Sound is about 45 minutes to an hour, then another 20 minutes to disembark, and from where it docks on the New York side is another 45 minutes to an hour away from the town where we worked. So his commute was around 2.5 hours ONE WAY five days a week. I think the company may have been paying for him to stay in a local hotel a few days a week because he was a brilliant young engineer and it was worth it rather than losing such a sought after and highly skilled employee. But Matt, I remember you and I tip my hat to you!

What bugs me that nobody talks about is now that everything is computerized or automated, there is so much more information to process, responsibilities, instructions, interactions, orders, follow ups. By making everything "easier" we've got to do so much more...

I had a colleague at one point that had to travel 2-3 hours a day (each way). He only worked from home one day a week. Not sure how he was ever able to do it, I know it wasn't the money.

It also assumed paid breaks.

"Right to work" states = the right for companies to fire you for no reason at all. Quite the conundrum as to why so many people choose to vote against their own best interests.

I found it helps to claim some other familial connection. Tell them you have relatives whose minor children you must help raise.

They're all trying to kill you, some a bit less than others.

My enormous sympathy. Agriculture is brutal business

Agree, and I'll always be silently getting angrier at the lazy ones for getting away with it!

I used to be. But then I changed my perspective. I don't work for someone, I'm selling them hours of my life. If someone else can be lazy for the same wage then I'm selling my time too cheaply and I should do the same

How does the saying go? If you give it your best every day, that becomes your normal, not your best?

Same here.

Yep it’s happened to me too.

Sadly you already have learned but personally failed by not correcting your actions...

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Oh yes you will. One day you will finally have had enough and you'll quit/retire - word.

Doubt

I was working as a cook. 6 am to 2pm. One day i busted my a*s so i could sit down and eat my lunch ( giving breaks is not mandatory in Pennsylvania ). Manager asked what i was doing. Said i was finished my work and was taking a break. Manager told me to help the dishwasher then.

That difficult when you are the only person in that role, or department for that matter!

I agree!! Don't be noticed either way and you will survive

got bosses where i work saying im the "five star employee" heck to the no, get on out of here with that. i refuse

which is code for, " we can take advantage of you easily"

AND the conformation email that you read the dang gone thing!!!

your username is absolutely amazing lol I just wanted to tell you that

"Well if you sent it i never got it", want me to dig deep enough and prove you a liar?

"It's Christmas, didn't you get the memo?"

My manager (we work in food and drink) came in yesterday sick as a dog. I'm livid. Covid is still alive and well and you work around FOOD. What the actual F.

You're renting your time. Act like a landlord.

What sick leave? I work for one of the big 4 banks (US). No sick leave. Zero hours. If I get the flu or COVID I am not allowed to work in the office yet I will get written up and fired for calling in.

What is this 'sick leave' of which you speak?

My boyfriend is always getting sick because the people at his job refuse to stay home when they're sick. It doesn't make you a hard worker, it just makes you an a*****e.

I work for one of the BIG pharmacy chains...where sick people come to get their meds...and we don't get sick time.

for a lot of people its less about being sick and more about not being able to afford to miss work. the job im at offers no sick pay. i know if some of my coworkers called out while sick and missed just a few days of work, they'd be choosing between having gas in their car or food on the table. we've actually collected food for sick coworkers before so theyd have enough to eat. its sad when you have to choose between allowing yourself to heal and eating or having a roof over your head. once those payments get behind its very hard to catch back up.

Please say that louder for the people in the back to hear.

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Sick leave... That's adorable lol. Fortunately I work outside, but it's a "suck it up, buttercup" life when working with animals

My pet peeve. Even years before COVID, we were allowed to WFH if we thought we might be getting sick, but still felt like working. One co-worker in particular kept coming in coughing and sneezing, claiming "it's just allergies". Until the day she had to call the boss and admit she had going to the doctor after being in all day and was diagnosed with strep throat. She got a little better after that.

Am from Scotland, we get 5 weeks paid holidays a year and if you don't use all your days you get paid for them.

I still am that person, but I do it for my patients, not the company.