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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I’m surprised they give you a range before getting to the end of an entire interview process
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!
Management: yes, a promotion! You'll receive same salary and your team mates will just work little bit harder.. /s
Load More Replies...Either that, or just handing out raises, basically dividing up the salary of the manager they don’t need between them, and never hiring a manager for their team—-unless they specifically, and most importantly, unanimously ask you to.
I once had an interim-manager say: "A manager's job is to make himself redundant." Best manager I've ever had.
Maybe you have your workforce configured wrong, and there is no need for a manager. Instead, raises may be called for.
This just happened in my department. Manager left, spot vacant. They decide to hire someone who used to work for the company (in a different department) instead of hiring someone who actually knows how to run the department already.
To stay as far away from me as possible. Now I have Long Covid I really don't want people in close range anymore. Especially collegues who still come to the office clearly ill with something that I will 100% catch and set me back months of hard work in recovery. We live in the EU, you don't have to come in sick. We have unlimited sick days so stay home or work from home.
Working. From. Home. Only without constant interruptions from management that are frustrated they can’t physically breathe down my neck anymore. Worse if there’s more than one manager doing it redundantly—-don’t those f*****s EVER talk to each other first and just send ONE email or make ONE call, FFS? I started that way and left that s**t job. Then my husband decided to start his own business, after talking to me about it for the last 15 years. I still work from home, only now I’m doing it for OUR company, not someone else’s. No micromanaging or any other management/owner b******t, because my husband and I ARE the owners and managers. I have promised myself that I will remember all the c**p I learned NOT to do from years of working for total a******s, because I refuse to become an a*****e just like them.
Not have to go to social events, unless I want. Jack's wedding: Yes! So much fun! Jill's wedding: No! Drama & pretension.
I liked wearing a mask so that people couldn’t see my facial expressions. I still do sometimes.
Demanding some elbow room. Not going to work sick. But also this.
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.
Got my boss a sign for her office that says "another meeting that could have been an email"
Load More Replies...We like to play word BINGO. If a supervisor says a certain word ... and the word was chosen by you ... you get a point . Example "game-changer" ... of course, supervisor not aware of game ... fun for everyone😃
Don't have the bandwidth, above my pay grade, get granular on this, deep dive, I have one more question (said by the person who makes meetings go on and on and on. . .)
Load More Replies...We should be able to push that button remotely before the meeting begins.
Or they can just leave the call because they "have a conflict." My conflict is usually boredom.
I left one today due to a "pressing matter" and had my visiting mother stand in and wrap it up (we're in the same business). "Pressing matter" was my overburdened bladder lol
Load More Replies...Oh noes all the ego tripping managers who realize stuff can be done without them..because ALL meetings will be less than 5 seconds from then on.
I actually disagree. Some meetings are important, but people would push the button even during those. I agree with the idea behind the concept, though.
Those meetings should come with a predetermined agenda and start and end times. If not important enough to prepare for those then it could have been an email.
Load More Replies...NO, NO, NO you can't because this would leave us with less money to spend upon frivolous items that we need to survive..............
Load More Replies...Yep, had to have a convo with my manager at the beginning of this year. I had been getting "raises" but when I really looked at it I wasn't even getting cost of living adjustments so in reality I was making less this year then when I started. I had to put it in numbers and show them for the company to see that to keep me they needed to take action and they did. No bitching or crying or stomping around. I showed them the numbers and they reacted. I know not all companies would but I finally see that I had to change the way I spoke about it to make the higher ups in the company to listen!
And it's like with my ex. U can't say "we don't have any money" and then alway b out spending money and giving yourself bonuses and raises. And if u have "record breaking profits", u can't claim price increases r due to increased costs of making/transporting ur product
my company was one of the ones that bragged about record profits but then refused to give cost of living increases saying the pandemic has been hard. didn't even try to create a connection between the two statements to explain how both could be true just announced record profits and then a month later told us they couldn't afford cost of living increases. Haven't gotten one since before the pandemic
Correction: "If your pay rise TO US is not matching inflation, you're giving us a pay cut." Because you can bet pounds to peanuts that THEIR pay rises *more* than match inflation!
My hubby worked for a company for 17 yrs with sincere loyalty, was paid half a normal salary of a master plumber, & had no retirement benefits. I helped him get a new & better job, in 2 years he doubled his salary, got amazing benefits, & after he died suddenly I got a decent life insurance payout his other employer would have NEVER done. Be as ruthless as any company not willing to pay ur worth.
Just because other companies act s****y towards their staff, you do not have to.
Or just because you started your own company because other companies treated YOU like s**t doesn’t mean YOU have to treat your employees the same way your a*****e ex-bosses treated you. Do some research. You’ll discover there are a slew of other management styles, and the a*****e model you’re using is not only counterproductive and out of date, it’s also going to destroy your company. You won’t attract the best and brightest, and if you do by some fluke, you will not retain them for long. Customers will not get what they’re paying for, and will spread the word that your company is s**t. NO amount of expensive advertising can reverse bad word of mouth.
Load More Replies...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.
Why did this get downvoted? We all know the system is designed to keep the rich in power. Your comment is dead on. It's not like you said the way the system is designed is GOOD, just that it works the way those who designed wanted it to. WTF. Have an upvote to offset whoever is having a bad day and downvoting clear, concise and correct comments.
Load More Replies...I still am I your him or her. I would imagine that most people who work or a relative, especially a parent would not. Put the effort into doing numbers one through four.
Also, Elizabeth Holmes has a very similar list and guess where she’s headed today? The slammer.
Load More Replies...Omg me too! in the middle of my office, cackling like a weirdo.
Load More Replies...I don't understand this post. REALLY good employers, like HP when Bill and Dave were in charge, will treat their employees fairly, and well, AND look after them. Funnily enough, they get a much greater output from their staff. Treat employees as cost units, and that is exactly how they will behave. I absolutely LOVED working at the good OLD Hewlett-Packard, until Carly Fiorina effectively destroyed it (in terms of differentiation from other employers). It was an absolute privilege to contribute to a company with ethics, and excellent products, and which treated employees very well. (Mind you, I had just come from NAB in Australia, which was the worst employer I have ever encountered.) Sadly it is now just another manufacturer of consumer goods (HP) or business products (Hewlett-Packard Enterprise). Most of the brilliant products and technology, let alone the ethos and camaraderie I worked with, are long gone. Vale Bill and Dave! You were brilliant!
Someone doesn't work for a woke company. All the social justice is performative.
Load More Replies...I worked for a place for twenty-five years under four bosses, and in all that time I only received one call at home from one. He had heard that I had had a falling accident and wanted to make sure I was ok. He told me to be sure to take the next day off.
My manager took a 1-month leave. His OOO message said, "the first thing I'll do when I get back is delete all the email I received while gone" and then included a links to instructions on how to schedule an email to resend in the future. I miss thirst guy.
I do the same when I get back from vacation. Ridiculous to go through old requests.
Load More Replies...I’ve left the people covering my job responsibilities, phone number on my out of office. Down below in this feed another person leaves on his out of office. Email that all emails date stamped would be deleted upon his return. Great.
There’s 750,000 other employees. It doesn’t say how much he makes
Load More Replies...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.
And after they apply, they should be required to live at the salary of their lowest paid employee.
Reminds me of an old boss I had. She threatened to take away lunch breaks unless we met this impossible quota. When we couldn't do it she decided to do it herself to show us how easy it is if you worked fast enough and hard enough. She couldn't do it. Did she lower the quota? Nope. She told us she was sure we would find a way to do it with our experience. Then she cut out lunch breaks since we were too slow and not working hard enough. Our work days were usually 10-11 hours so it made for a long day. I didn't stay for long.
It was a three month process when my daughter applied for a trainee croupier role in a casino. As luck would have it, just a few days before she was advised that she had been successful, she had decided moved back home (interstate, thousands of kilometers away from the casino). So she declined their offer. Three months? I ask you!
Especially companioes using the crappiest, cheapest POS software to try and get thru
Or even better, have the home office execs work in the field for like 2 weeks or so. Some of them came up thru the ranks but have long forgotten what it was like. Making decisions that actually disrupt the flow of the people doing the work b/c "Joe had a great idea!"
I want the people working for mass transit to have to ride mass transit.
Load More Replies...They should try contacting a human employee at their company through their website and ask them how their day is going. If it take more than 10 minutes CHANGE YOUR SYSTEM! The World Wide Web was invented to make communication quicker and easier. Not so you could make it harder and more frustrating.
I can think of two companies that will forever have my business: MTD and Water Boss. Both answered the phone in three rings, no phone tree, no "visit our website" .
Load More Replies...The neat thing about Williams' Law is that if you forget the name there's a very quick way to find it out.
Load More Replies...this works in any context. Your boss ignoring your email? send him a completely f****d version of what he last said to you, he will email back with a rant explaining what he said. Bingo, got it in writing.
Probably for an obscure or niche programming language with a tight community. I'd probably go there for things like programming a Dreamcast game.
Load More Replies...Who the f*ck goes to Reddit for programming questions? Stackoverflow is the place
I have ALS so I have to rely on JR voice to text J hard when writing my texts. It is amazing to me how many people will take the time to correct my grandma and punctuation and spelling rather than responding to the context of the post. This is especially prevalent with Facebook And my local Nextdoor app
One day last week I logged on to find someone has sent me a Teams message at after 8pm asking if anyone was online to look at an issue. Clearly there wasn't as it was after hours. I will say that the person did have a legit issue which we resolved in the morning.
Proof that the 8pm “emergency” could wait until after 9 the next morning. So not a real emergency. Boundaries, people. Boundaries.
Load More Replies...I had a customer in the line earlier this morning complaining that his service representative still hadn't answered his messages. Dude, you just emailed three minutes ago. That's not even enough time for the automated system adding it to your active account. Your representative didn't even see it yet, since the messages get sorted every ten minutes and it's really not that pressing to answer your question for your building project that's in three months! Some people!
Had a customer yesterday call complaining that no one was returning his call from Friday. He had called 4:57 on Friday and we were out of the office for the long weekend. He calls again at 9:15 yesterday, I hadn't even gotten messages off the answering machine yet and he's all pissed off that no one called him. I told him we just got back from the long weekend, he says thats no excuse.... people are so exhausting
I like “I’ve been trying to call you all week!” and the one message from them is from just a couple hours ago. Try harder, dingus!
Assuming people are working online 24 hours a day is utterly SICK. At least wait for a response until AFTER they are 'back on deck'. BTW, I hated that I used that nautical reference; my boss asked me how I felt now 'I was on board' the day after I joined. I wasn't aware the company was based on a ship!
Big nope. Anything sent after 4 pm on Friday doesn't get read until mid morning Monday.
2 different people emailed me 1 @ 1837 and 1 @ 2250 to advise they would not be able to attend training next day.......I left at 0700 to travel to training office to find this out at 0915 when I arrived and switched on laptop
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.
You're tired of pulling a massive stone cube around and want more breaks? I swear nobody wants to work anymore!
Load More Replies...It's just a different take on "young people are awful and have no manners" which has been around since Socrates at least!
Along with "[latest media format] is ruining young people's brains!" Pretty sure I read that ancient Greek philosophers said the same thing about stone tablets!
Load More Replies...Translation: "people are getting angry when I barely pay them and treat them like s**t? But I'm sPeCiaL!" -Every CEO
Has anyone ever really "wanted to work"...? Given the choice, we'd all live lives free of the pressures of having to earn money.
Well I think most of us would choose some kind of work even if we didn't have to, just to stay productive. Like if I was ridiculously rich I'd probably still put in a shift or two teaching online or volunteering somewhere cool. But that would be like 8 hours a week instead of 8 hours a day.
Load More Replies...Nobody wants to work anymore for the lowest possible income in exchange for long hours, extra hours, work overload and a stressful / toxic work environment. There, I fixed it for you.
Actually, NO-ONE has ever WANTED to work. Ever. People work only to get the money necessary to survive in this society. If someone comes into enough money to support themselves (e.g. wins a big lottery), what's most likely to be the first thing they do? That's right, quit working.
Then applying and interviewing for jobs, only to have to answer why the pause in employment :)
Load More Replies...Perfect opportunity to micromanage TF outta that a*****e micromanager who made your life miserable before you retired. Sweet! Mess with their head like they messed with yours. Be the bad karma coming back to bite them on the a*s (not literally. Yuck).
Well they have the "Masters" tournament or equivalent in most sports. So why not in employment?
Ok, let's roll that back...right there, she gives her boss a tacit go ahead to take credit for her work. Rookie mistake! Michelle's really gonna have to step up at 4:30 and tell Carl she's not coming in Saturday
It is so their AI can sift through the resumes in a standardized format. You basically need to sneak in as many buzz words from the job posting as you can, just so the AI sends it to a human.
A job I applied for demanded a resume, so I brought one but was told I had to fill out their application. On pretty much every line, 'REFER TO RESUME'!!
Most of our government departments are like this, but not all. Some DO requrie you to retype all this c**p. Which is bad enough. However there's one in particular which is bad, they require you to POST it. Now, as we all know, post in Africa does not function. So you end up having to drive there like it's 1899 and drop it off in person.
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 too have this interest, but it's so difficult to find related activities.....
you mean to escape from it into something that isn't a moving goalpost and soul-crushing? hmm how about AI wrangling? I hear there's openings in that.
Load More Replies..."Tell me how u r passionate about answering calls in a call center to help our customers, but given the call metrics we have, u won't actually be able to help and force them to just call in over and over and over again, getting more frustrated and pissed off each time. We only want people who r passionate about their jobs."
If I could I'd do it at home part time for the hell of it. But it's way better to get paid.
Darn generation Z! In MY days, we'd WORK FOR FREE.
Load More Replies...GOOD managers—-an extremely rare breed, to the point of extinction—-roll up their sleeves, jump in, and help out when they’re short handed. They DON’T pile more work on their employees, who are already stretched way too thin, without even offering them a significant raise to try and justify it, although there comes a point where even extra money isn’t enough to offset mental and physical burnout exhaustion.
"No one wants to work [for a******s] anymore." There, fixed it for you.
this is so painfully true! We just had a person on our team get let go because of reasons.... and the management decided not to replace them for now. What we all took that to mean is they are going to see if we can all absorb his work and keep them from having to hire anyone ever! It's not going to be a great back half of the year for us!
Work to contract my friend. Do your job description and nothing else. They will have to fill the void eventually.
Load More Replies...I was hired for one job. I was stuck with others as those people quit. I quit. I later found out from someone who still worked there that in the few months I'd been gone, they'd hire two people to do my job. Neither worked out. They didn't know when they had it good.
Music is terrible this way. Majors all think they'll get a chair in some legendary orchestra, and when it doesn't happen they resort to making kids think THEY'LL get into a legendary orchestra. 90% of the jobs in music are people who found out they can't make money playing, taking money from people who think they can make money playing
If he started Egyptology, he doesn’t want to work. Same as this lady named Olivia who’s post is below this one
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 an Egyptian Arabic expression that is equivalent to “in your dreams.” It is based on that only your mother will indulge you in such unrealistic demand.
Load More Replies...Most would argue that dogs don't do work and people are allergic to them, but that didn't stop them from hiring my coworkers.
So the Arabic is the equivalent of the American South's "Bless your heart"?
This needs to be normalized. I work at a school, my boss is the principal, I get called to the principals office. Principals use the same phrasing and tone on staff as they do on students, it's nerve racking.
100%! I work at a high school, and to be treated like the kids is maddening, especially in sensitive situations
Load More Replies...My boss prefaces all last minute calls to me with "I promise, you didn't do anything wrong..." or "I swear, its nothing bad...."
This is sooooooooooooooo..............................................
the mental health system is f****d. even here in germany with free healthcare. i was literally in a psychiatry for a few day after TRYING TO KILL MYSELF and i was basically shooed out, because i didnt have the will to kill myself after basically failing at my attempt, i was and still am traumatised, that i really tried it. so now i have to wait MONTHS to get a f*****g psychiatrist to talk to me because everyone and their mother goes there now.. and its good that more people take their mental health serious, but you dont wait months for a physical injury, do you? there is immediate help. not with mental problems. i have it good in germany, because at least you get some money without having a job, but idk what i would do if i was basically forced to even aim for some career immediatly to survive... if i was in america
In America they could care less. If you 5150, they kick you to a county facility when the residents are way worse off than you are and then they give you $15,000 bill (per 72-hour hold).
Load More Replies...This is legitimately what I saw recently, almost exactly. I'm working on going to vet school and, just for future planning of paying off loans and still being able to live, I looked up average salary for veterinarians in my area, and looked at multiple listings in my area, one of which actually being 30,000 to 100,000. X/
it's ok to not be ok. Unless that means you need a day off for mental health reasons bc we wont approve that.
this is literally the argument i am having with my HR right now. in the last 12 months I have 5 mental health related days off. But hey, I won't take one day off now and get better, I'll take off two months with a severe depressive episode, and you will have to pay for a 'replacement' with out all my training so they wont be able to do most of the job anyway.
Load More Replies...Told my boss I've been dealing with anxiety, depression, emotional abusive relationship, breaking up, and currently trying to move out. She had no idea and was sympathetic. I'm like you have never seen my A game because I've been having regular mental breakdowns since I was hired (one breakdown was their fault, union took care of it).
Especially after the pandemic, it's now the "cool" thing to talk about, but workers are TRULY struggling...
I'm surprised something that fantasy inducing wasn't censored! Totally NSFW!
Load More Replies...In 1997 I gave notice with nothing lined up. For two weeks, people kept saying, "I hear you put in your 2 weeks! Where are you going?" I still get a shiver remembering how it felt to say "I don't know"
I had this on the bulleting board in my office. And I mentioned it to a company owner several times. No, I'm not coming in on my day off because you couldn't be bothered to read the email I sent you LAST WEEK outlining this customer's problem.
I had this up and a b***h customer pointed to it and said, "so can you make sure you do my job first up?" Because apparently it meant lack of MY planning etc. still seething 4 years on. AND she tried to sell me arbonne
Apparently this also plays a decent role in gender wage disparity. As pointed out elsewhere, you often have to be the one to bring up raises/etc... We're all kinda socially conditioned to feel awkward doing this, but this affects women disproportionately as men tend to feel more comfortable doing this in a workplace setting. I had a friend who was doing (academic) research on the subject.
And even of the woman does bring it up its seen as "bad form". There is still this mentslity that the man is doing the providing and the woman is earning "fun money"
Load More Replies...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.
But what does it say that this CEO is hiring while others are firing? The best quit knowing they can find something better, leaving the downsizer with the average.
Load More Replies...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.
You know you can change this in an arcane bit of word settings, right?
Load More Replies...Cntrl+ Alt +v is the magic trick. Select unformatted. Double click. You're welcome.
Everyone who works with computers should know this. That also applies to the clipboard history.
Load More Replies...Dear Microsoft Word. I ALWAYS want to retain the style I have copied when using the paintbrush tool. I want to apply that style MORE THAN ONCE.
If you double click on Format Painter, it will stay on until you turn it off
Load More Replies...Does cntrl-shift-V work in Microsoft word? I wouldn't know, but do any pandas here know?
And "And Google Docs," and you just described me doing my homework (I go back and forth on these softwares depending on what I need).
This times 1 billion! The option to place as plain text is NEVER there when you really need it.
Dear Bill Gates: Stop f*****g around with vaciines, world hunger, and preaching, and make Microsoft Word (at least) be a workable program so that us secretaries don't have to scream.
WordPerfect is a better word processor in almost every way. It does, however, do the same thing with copied formats. But you can easily paste unformatted or without fonts & attributes. Plus you can easily see and modify the format codes if you want to.
I did this IRL, about 8 months ago! 4 person panel interview. The manager asked one of those questions, "Tell me about a time where you felt anxious, concerned..." or blah blah blah. It was a *really* long question that she read aloud. I said, "You first". She got defensive then reworded the question. "Now that sounds like a reasonable question to answer". They emailed me for a second interview! I said that I didn't think it was a good fit and wished them luck with their job search. That was the BEST interview I've ever had! Highly recommended! (I had another job starting the next Monday.)
Load More Replies...Haha I'm waaaaay too much of a people pleaser to turn down a job I get offered like that - I'd find myself accepting and my inner voice screaming "WTAF are you doinggggg?????"
Uuuhh... aren´t these just the normal questions when you apply for a job?! I even contacted and interviewed employers of a company before I had an appointment with them.. best to do this in the evening with a glas of wine.. all of them got a little drunk and talked way to much.. lolz.
If you did it only to companies known to be the worst for what they do, or how they treat employees, I think it's cool. If not, you're just wasting the time of the undeserving strangers who have to play your game at the expense of doing their jobs as productively as they want to.
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.
Management’s Favorite Promotion: Way more work and responsibilities, zero pay raise.
This exact same thing happened to me recently. Still waiting on that f*****g pay rise....
Biggest failure of any company is realizing someone is really good at their job, so instead of a promotion or payraise, they give them more work. So much for valuing your employees
Pic on the left should be him as a baby. Makes it more accurate and funnier imo
He was 20 years old when he was invested as Prince of Wales in 1969.
Load More Replies...Oh wow, that's really flattering, but I got tired of waiting so I started a little duchy in Cornwall and it's been doing really well! Hope you find someone
Are they going to stick his mug on British pounds now? What’s the plan?
I have to admit, very young Charles was not too bad looking. He kinda looks like the actor who played Neville in Harry Potter....Matthew Lewis.
But can you do this thing to show you have the knowledge for the job?
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)
Probably good that you clarified, I recently got downvoted pretty hard for not clarifying a joke
Load More Replies...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.
Not me but my dad. He was working for a railroad company out of Kansas and had the pleasure of picking up the president of said company from the airport. Now my dad made good money but not CEO money. He picks this guy up at the airport and they pull into the railyard and the president asked, "what's that?". It was snow. He didn't know what snow was. His bonus that year was 300k. My dad's was 18k. What the hell??
Boss wanted a report. I explained that the software didn't have the parameters to create that report. I could export the data into Excel & create it that way, but it would take a few hours. He insisted the program could do it. Ya'll, I'm a professional bookkeeper, certified in over a dozen accounting programs and told him NO, it can't. He pitched a fit, insisting the program could do it. I finally got up, shoved my chair towards him and said "SHOW ME". Of COURSE he had no idea how. It took me calling our CPA (a man) to inform Boss that NO the system isn't designed to do that. No apology, nothing. I didn't stay there very long after that.
Sadly, I can SO relate to this! Still it is how I keep my lucrative job, by being able to do stuff nobody else can be bothered to work out how.
But why make a spreadsheet into a PDF - do you just want coloured boxes? If this is the best example 'Me' can come up with, they don't deserve more pay!
PDFs are simpler to distribute, but also, a lot of spreadsheets will have a bunch of formulas with information you don't want people to know - just the final product. For example, I built a distributable ratesheet that is (raw price + margins), two things we don't want the people we give it to to know
Load More Replies...My bones are my alarm. Sometimes I wake up half asleep and try to will myself back to sleep before my brain can connect with the rest of my body.
I'm 45 and I still don't trust this to wake me up, since my inner kid is still there and urges me every night to forget about my problems and play videogames or watch movies until 3 am.
... unless your problem is that you just cannot be bothered to wake up any more!
I think that might be my problem. I'll sleep till 11 if I don't set 3 alarms xD
Load More Replies...My biological clock usually refuses to let me sleep past 5:30...but if I hit the snooze button I'm not getting up until noon.
Or: Roses are red - I used to have dreams - work makes me sad - now I have memes.
wrong. working at home is 15% work and 85% getting distracted by your own brain
I have to disagree, this is definitely not the case with everyone. I for one, can finally focus seeing that I am not interrupted every 2 minutes and my productivity has improved because of that.
Load More Replies...WFH I was productive and had a clean apartment. WFO I read the internet and procrastinate so they don't add to my workload, oh my apartment is filthy because I'm never there.
at home: work 50%, food/coffee 10%, pee/poop 5%, distracted by TV 20%, smoke break 10%, me time 5%.
The sitting in traffic they didn't pay you for, are you really working 10 hours a day now? Also, if you drink coffee, that may have grown since it isn't already made. But the others will merge. I do much more in less time working from home. Some days I work overtime, others I get off early. Overall, I'm still turning in more and I appreciate the company for letting me do it on my own time!
I don't agree with this one... I swap out "sitting in traffic" with wasting time on boredpanda... otherwise it's the same.
I worked at home for a year. My experience was that I was totally unproductive, what with chores, taking the dog out, getting lunch/dinner ready, putting clothes in the dryer, and a million other distractions. I drive 55 miles to and from work five days a week and would likely not consider a job that wanted me to work remotely. I understand this is not a popular opinion, but there are those of us who are MUCH more productive in the office than at home.
If this employee did any less, they would need to be planted and watered twice a day
Every single one of these accurately describes certain people in the House of Representatives and Congress...except for the word 'young'.
Be fair. Some of the young ones have wasted no time in matching or exceeding the deficiencies and derangements of their elders.
Load More Replies...I remember this from USENET in the early 90s. Great that it's still circulating!
Yeah and I'm pretty sure it's from an old Jasper Carrot sketch
Load More Replies...Is it bad that i mentally listed off people from my old job that fit each bullet point...?
“You will be very fortunate if you can persuade this person to work at your company”
Why are they all getting paid so much damn (I was joking)
Most companies have an actual value calculation that can work out an equivalent cost per hour including all fixed costs, facilities, benefits etc. This would normally be in the order of two or three times the actual salary of the individual. It is often used to compare the cost of external consultants vs. employing internal staff for the same job.
Load More Replies...This is obviously fake and just a joke, but my first thought was aww Justin must be so sad to see everyone makes so much more than he does
I actually used to do this sometimes. My numbers were based on averages within salary ranges and a total for the meeting, not for each person. When they see how expensive it is, it can help deter some managers who constantly call pointless meetings to make themselves feel important.
Load More Replies...No WONDER we don't have Google Calendar! We use MS rubbish which doesn't work, and certainly doesn't give away annoying details like that!
What I believe now: people who are useless get promoted because they can't do the job. People who are good at their job get held down, because someone has to actually work to produce value.
It is all about the smoozing and the laziest workers get promoted cause they are excellant smoozers as thdy do that to avoid work.
I think some of this depends on what "promotion" means. Is it "the same job but with a pay bump" or is it "a new job with different responsibilities"? Because the two are very different beasts. Working hard won't guarantee the new job because ability/education can be more important than effort. Someone may work great on their current job, but if the new one requires skills they don't have then it doesn't make sense to promote them. As for the other type of promotion, I believe it's reasonable to have a ceiling to the pay. Annual increments that keep up (outpace) inflation is fine. But I don't see why I should be paid 100k a year because I'm really good at photocopying. At some point you need to move to a different job if you want more money. Good organisations help by training you and giving you experience in higher roles along the way.
I feel that promotions are like a popularity contest. Not based in any other reality.
If only. If you are good at what you are doing and relatively hard to be replaced - your chances on promotion are precisely zero. You might beg a bit of increase in salary but in order to get a real rise or higher position - you need to hop companies every 3-4 years.
Load More Replies...Not want, NEED! Because you can’t pay rent with friends. Landlords want money.
Load More Replies...I heard that potatoes are now 5 friends we made along the way per pound!
True, but should not be true. People still need to eat, live, enjoy themselves once in a while, and raise children if they have them.
The only actual person I'm "friends with in my whole company, I work for a county, is my mom who's in a different department.
“Work hard, play hard” can also mean work 80 hours a week, and spend the rest of the time in the bar drinking yourself to unconsciousness with your coworkers and the owner, who are doing the same. So you end up exhausted, burnt out, and an alcoholic.
Sounds like Japan (except you end up a chain smoker too).
Load More Replies...My last job had 8 weeks of PTO. This one has no amount. I give them credit because my boss takes plenty of time off and encourages us to do the same. But I'm still left feeling like I'm either losing our because I'm not taking off as much as I could, or I might go too far and take too much and have that hurt my job. So I take more like 4 to 5 weeks most years.
Politicians/ceo s/press: "the pandemic is over!" People with asthma, diabetes, cancer etc :"um,..."
From the point of view of government it is over. Serious case rates are at manageable levels so hospitals won't be overwhelmed. If the hospitals were overwhelmed the death rates would have been far, far higher. It's a big part of why countries where the spread went unchecked had higher death rates per 100k people than ones that actively controlled it.
Load More Replies...For a second I thought BP had censored "covid" and I thought they'd finally gotten it right.
It's much easier to come up with 6 to 8 sentences than a whole book!
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... 🫣🔥
Make it a BCc, so your manager won’t think you’re a snitch. Well, at least not immediately think it.
Load More Replies...I CC people because its information they need to know. if you work in a company long enough you know who needs to be CCd on email.
i cc my boss when the bastards won't reply to me and i need to name drop to get an answer.
I ask about weekend plans on Tuesday...as every day is Friday when you do what you love!!!💕 (Sarc)
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!!!
There is this nice tool called aText that automatically substitutes anything you give it as a shorthand whith the given text when you type the shorthand. So you can create a snippet that exchanges the shorthand pleasedie with 'I hope I could help you with this information and I wish you a happy week.'
People in this case are those who have interests in commercial properties. One such person being dinosaur Lord Sugar
Con: being stuck in your house working. you live there, you eat there, you poop there... its your house. you spend most of your time here, now your spending nearly 100% of your time in your house.
This is an absolute pro for me. I love my house. My cats are here.
Load More Replies...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.)
Sat on a board for 9 years. Repetitively had this exact experience but couldn’t really process it for what it was at the time. Only looking back did I understand. I’m still awed at how blatant it was and how naive I was.
Load More Replies...This is why I don't share solutions for common problems at work anymore. I will suddenly be the only one responsible for it without the appropriate raise in compensation.
"Initiative is punishable by extra responsibilities."
Load More Replies...Mental Health has to come first .. you look after number 1 before anything else
Too bad capitalism isn’t open to any innovations except total s**t like unnecessarily wasting money that could’ve gone into raises or bonuses by hiring “motivational speakers” to conduct corporate pep rallies, or “efficiency experts” to make totally s****y draconian suggestions and f**k up beyond repair the work environment, sky high morale, and totally excellent thing the company already has going on. Metrics are utter s**t, and should be dropped as gauges of performance. People are not machines, FFS.
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.
That's how we did it. Even in elementary school (ages 5-11) basic geometry is introduced at age 9 and basic algebra is typically age 11. Then full geometry at 14-15 and and algebra at 15-16. I'm sure it varies by location but that's what happens in my US state.
Load More Replies...Lunch with the team, that the boss who makes 100 times their salary then hands them the bill for.
I am impressed how it was possible to grow a full beard in less than 3 hours during Covid.
Maybe accelerated facial hair growth is a symptom of Long Covid? (Just trying to be funny, not insulting people who actually have Long Covid.)
Load More Replies...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.
Ukrainian here. For me it's "no rockets and drones exploding on the vicinity of the office". I miss people and free lunches.
yeah, the company I work for has a "collaboration" day where one day a week everyone has to be in office. At first everyone did come in on that day... now it's about half of the people show up on that day..... every company is so untrusting that their employees are working geez
Vlookup is an excel formula (vertical lookup), which is very useful for combining data from multiple tables. They're saying don't date coworkers.
Load More Replies...5. I find that "Good day" is always a winner, you don't have to worry if it is morning or afternoon and it sounds professional.
Which does not make for the lightning fast reply the suits seem to always want, without realizing it takes time to write a reply that’s worded in a way they’ll actually understand.
1. Go to ChatGPT. 2. Prompt: "write an email to a coworker telling them that I am late with a spreasheet and make it sound like it's their fault, in polite office language".
i don't even bother with greetings anymore. i'm straight to the point, and i think people appreciate that. "do you have an update for this please?" is the politest i can get anymore. and no thank-you's until i get an answer!
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]?
F: I'm not sure I'm understanding you correctly, would you mind giving me an example?
Load More Replies...The main part is missing, Halli has a disability and Elon claimed it's a fake one, so he need not to work. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/mar/07/elon-musk-twitter-employee-feud-haraldur-thorleifsson
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.
Or make it a thing to kick the scheduler in the face. If every business does this then people will be too scared to schedule on Friday, unless they like kicks to the face.
*Company immediately puts "masochist" in job requirements.*
Load More Replies...Work ruined Fridays. We have a meeting every Friday that starts before half the staff regular lunch ends so we all have to go to lunch early but can't because the office closes later than regular time.
Once, during a meeting on Friday I said, just for fun, that "People who schedule meetings for a Friday are probably communists." People chuckled, but never again did any one of them schedule a meeting for Friday.
our plane is broken, and we will be overbooked by 15 tomorrow, we must find a solution tonight or we'll be paying out 150,000$ in compensation..... pretty sure that's self explanatory.
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.
I once put this oldie as my OOO message "I am currently conducting an experiment in time travel and couldn't take my cell phone. I should be back early yesterday afternoon at which time I shall disable this outgoing message. So, if you get this message... that would not be good." My boss's boss in the Chicago office got this OOO message and must have told everybody there about it because I got this flood of emails from people in Chicago I had never heard of.
when I put my out of office message on I always say "I will not be checking email" just to let everyone know that you can email me but I will not see or respond to it until I get back. I make it very clear to my manager and my coworkers that when I am on PTO I DON'T work. Period. Drawing those clear lines might keep me from promotions at this company but I won't be overworked! And if I really want to advance and the company won't let me I can go elsewhere. More people need to take their PTO time and get away from the work!!!!
More believable—-because it’s way more common—-would be for the person who shared the idea first to be a woman.
hmm, carbon monoxide excel, carbon monoxide excel, carbon monoxide excel, .... tough choice!
I am thankful I am the stage in my career now where if anyone was unlikely enough to ask me one of this type of question I could just stand up and say "I'm sorry this position is not for me" before walking out!
Load More Replies...I became even more passionate about eating and gained 20kg (no joke) and I still haven't lost it
During my furlough period I personally developed a sun tan and cleared up my psoriasis by lying in the garden as we had a heat wave for practically the whole time I was off work. I felt so good after the first few days in the sun I passionately lay in the garden doing nothing for 4 and half months.
So much cringe. I didn't stay home because I work in an essential business. Many people who were home were busy worrying about making rent/mortgage and affording food. I worked at a chemical company with low staff (the office people worked from home) so I got lucky. Healthcare and retail workers or anyone else interacting with the public had a really terrible time and many died. (Which is why anyone b!tching about less healthcare workers or retail workers is dumb.) On the plus side, this question is a good red flag that the company is out of touch with reality.
I'd respond with "no, obviously I levelled up on my professional qualifications and became even more of a team player" (puke)
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!
If it makes you happy and doesn't harm anyone, you should celebrate it if you want!
Load More Replies...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
I suspect it very much has to do with agenda and who you're stuck interacting with. I don't mind like informative or monthly team meetings (depending on the team) but actually trying to solve issues at 3pm before a weekend would suck or if I'm trying to finish somethimg before I leave and I have to waste time instead.
Load More Replies...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.
