50 Funny Posts From This Instagram Page Dedicated To Work Satire That Hit Too Close To Home
Office workplaces have long been the cause of mocking and ridicule, but remain quite popular, as, often, prestigious, comfortable jobs to slowly grind your way up the corporate ladder. But this is no barrier for the younger generation to share all the painfully relatable and downright silly parts of 21st century employment.
This Instagram page gathers memes dedicated to Gen Z and Millennials sharing the humorous and sometimes ridiculous reality of working in the modern, corporate world. So scroll through, upvote whatever ends up being annoyingly relatable, and feel free to share your own feelings about the workplace.
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Well, promoting, AND hiring someone to replace the person promoted. Otherwise the promoted person will end up doing two jobs for the price of one!
Discussions over how the various generations see and perform in the workplace have been a business analyst and consultant staple since the first millennial graduated high school and started working. Most follow the age-old cliches of “digital natives, digital immigrants,” and vague terms regarding a “global generation.” More extreme examples claim that young people don’t want to work, disregarding the fact that most people don’t want to work, we want to live.
The reality is that people of all generations are different, with different interests, goals, dreams, and desires. And let’s face it, the “workplace” is not static as well, with the rise of technology companies over the last twenty years absolutely changing multiple industries and economies simultaneously. After all, Steve Jobs was not a Millennial but still pioneered a more casual look at the office.
Change it to "make this an email button" and it would be VERY efficient.
It’s fairly well documented that Gen Z and to a lesser extent Millennials will change jobs very often, with average tenures being around two years. Gone are the days of “company people,” who will stay at one post for over a decade, now young people demand promotions or at least some degree of professional development. Like the question of the chicken or egg, it’s unclear if this is actually the “fault” of younger workers, or the result of how rapidly the business landscape now changes.
How to be successful at 25: Have rich parents/ have a sugar daddy
Took me a veeeeeery long time to realise OOO is "Out Of Office". I was just reading it as "ooooo" like in ghost noises.
If you have older relatives, you have no doubt had the “joy” of helping them set up a new phone or TV or even showing them how to access, say, Google Docs. While for most of us, this is almost instinctual, it’s worth remembering that in the past, technology didn’t jump nearly as quickly, and people weren't used to a total overhaul of everything every few years. Similar processes are true in the modern workplace, so Gen Z and Millennials have no desire to keep doing things a certain way when new opportunities arise.
Managers unable to understand or keep up with shifting demands are often at a loss as to what makes people leave. Instead, they need to be asking themselves, what do I do to make them stay? As often as everyone talks about the digital age, it’s easy to overlook that the internet lets us see inside almost every workplace, from Subway to a day in the life of senior developers at a tech company. This exchange of information allows workers to rapidly evaluate their own work compared to others. It's easy to see how bad conditions quickly lead to labor shortages.
Often, analysts will find it surprising that two global recessions (among other disruptions) haven't made Gen Z and Millenials more risk-averse, but the truth is, they have little to risk. If you aren’t drowning in car payments and mortgage fees, what exactly do you have to lose? Remember, Gen Z and Millennials have also seen the path to recovery after two global recessions and believe that there will be more ups and downs in the future.
I studied Egyptology, I saw this coming. So I switched to the much more sensible English literature. Ahem.
Sometimes people point to the fact that Gen Z in particular prefers “interesting” work, but the actual statistics show that it’s a fairly even split. Given the massive amount of choice and information available, it might be that younger people simply do not know what they want yet, so they actively try different things to get a better idea of who they are. So despite the trappings and “seriousness” of the corporate world, it’s not surprising that many would instead "memeify" it, not worship it.
it's ok to not be ok. Unless that means you need a day off for mental health reasons bc we wont approve that.
Ugh so here’s the thing… tech companies are hoping a percentage of employees will quit when they announce back to office, so they can downsize without the bad PR of a big round of layoffs. They have no plans to backfill those positions.
It’s 2023, ffs. You’d think this would just happen automatically by now. Hell, you’d think a hell of a lot MORE things would be/act/perform/be programmed like we’re in the 21st Century, and not 1990, for f**k’s sake.
Thank you so much for the opportunity, but instead I would like to quiet quit. That means I do none of the work for all of the pay and keep the title.
Pic on the left should be him as a baby. Makes it more accurate and funnier imo
Ye this seems fake to me. If it was really a LinkedIn post, he'd be talking to his dog that he found almost starving on the road that no one wanted, and this would be after the dog failed at reciting Shakespeare. Get your facts straight smh 🙄. (Really hope I don't need to clarify here that I'm joking)
I had a job once where I learned that I made more than my boss. My salary was only 10% under his, and I was also a manager. But since I still did sales, I got commissions on top. My boss didn't mind, he didn't want to do sales and he recognized that neither of us made what we deserved anyway. Difference was he really loved the job and I hated it there.
wrong. working at home is 15% work and 85% getting distracted by your own brain
Why are they all getting paid so much damn (I was joking)
Politicians/ceo s/press: "the pandemic is over!" People with asthma, diabetes, cancer etc :"um,..."
CC my boss to at all get a response from you, head of this particular stuff, because you didn't respond to my last tre mails..! Or as former collegue did, CC the top ceo in swe because the group manager neglected to do the task they had undertaken themselves... 🫣🔥
What I'm thinking: F**k you Darrell. Go to hell. What I say: Of course, Darrell! I'd love to help you with XYZ for no extra pay!!!
If you’re a woman, the other alternative is that you mention it first and only get the deer in the headlights look. A couple minutes later, one of the guys, whose IQ is smaller than his shoe size, mentions it—-word for word the exact same way you just did—-and suddenly HE’S a f*****g genius! What a great idea! You’re going to go places, my boy! You know, typical executive boys club type of b******t. Even if you announce that YOU said the exact same thing first, you just get the deer in the headlights look again. (Yeah, had that infuriating s**t happen to me.)
You know, if we all could work from home, all those empty office buildings could be converted to apartment buildings——and I mean apartments that former non-executive office workers can afford to rent, and work from home in.
Not necessarily a reason to be confident. Seems the smart ones get passed by or pushed out, and the f*****g idiots get put on the fast track for raises and promotions. I have always wondered who those mental midgets are related to, sleeping with (applies to men as well as women, btw), or has some kind of blackmail-level dirt on, to keep them on that track.
E: I'm open to the idea but I'll need time to think it through. What about you [pick on and name another colleague you know wasn't listening]?
Easy, it's the block to right of those 3 blue ones.. or to the left of those red ones if you enjoy p1ssing people.
The suits never can comprehend that the more time we’re stuck in unnecessary meetings, mandatory “motivational” presentations, and constant, unnecessary, and redundant most of the time, emails and calls we’re told we HAVE to respond to within 10 minutes of receiving them, is time that’s taken away from the “head down” total uninterrupted concentration time we absolutely need to finish our f*****g required work, correctly and completely. The more complicated it is, the more time we need to finish it—-unless you want us to do it fast, which will get you work that’s going to be messy, incomplete, and full of errors. Hmmm, the latter sounds a lot like the s****y quality of work coming out of the vast majority of companies these days.
More believable—-because it’s way more common—-would be for the person who shared the idea first to be a woman.
Ha ha, I’ve seen a few of these posts, well, why not? I have had two career jobs that were very hard to get into but before LinkedIn was popular, I’d probably celebrate too!
why does a Friday afternoon meeting mean a bad thing. you sit in a room, not doing any work on the last day of the week. you leave the meeting, oh its time to go home i've done nothing for the last 2 hours
Sadly true, we have some staff who have filled up their 100GB mailbox and their 100GB archive and are expecting us to provide more space despite telling them that it's a hard limit and they will have to start managing their mailbox as Outlook IS NOT A F*****G STORAGE TOOL
When I started work I had a very astute supervisor who passed on a huge amount sensible advice to this raw recruit. One of his observations stuck with me over the years:- "Most large companies are like a huge pyramid with the CEO on top and the most junior on the bottom. Every manager selects his own staff, and when he looks down all he sees is his golden-haired protégés, but when the staff look up all they see is a*s***es." Shocked me at the time, but the longer I worked the more accurate it became.
When I started work I had a very astute supervisor who passed on a huge amount sensible advice to this raw recruit. One of his observations stuck with me over the years:- "Most large companies are like a huge pyramid with the CEO on top and the most junior on the bottom. Every manager selects his own staff, and when he looks down all he sees is his golden-haired protégés, but when the staff look up all they see is a*s***es." Shocked me at the time, but the longer I worked the more accurate it became.
