This Facebook Group Shares 50 “Work Related Funnies” To Help You Get Through The Work Week
"Sunday scaries" does not sound all that scary, right? But to millions of employees, they are a common nightmare that hits like clockwork as soon as they want to relax in the last hours of the weekend. The anxiety and dread that creeps in on the eve before a workweek often makes us obsessed with one thought — in 12 hours, we’re back at our desks yet again. Heck, even the most fortunate people who love what they do can have a hard time returning to the real world after a pleasant break.
Thankfully, there's an entertaining corner over on Facebook that serves as the perfect antidote to the dreary and gruesome 9 to 5 grind. Aptly titled 'Work Week Memes,' this group is all about capturing hilariously relatable work moments to temporarily let employees forget about their worries, one meme at a time.
We at Bored Panda have gathered some of the best "funnies" from this online community to boost the mood of any desk-bound poor soul out there. So enjoy scrolling through this list, upvote the posts that made you laugh, and be sure to share them with your friends who need it most! When you’re finished chuckling at these memes, check out our previous piece filled with corporate humor right over here.
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Let's count the number of people who said "I wish I had spent more time at work." on their death bed.
Whilst this is a very admirable sentiment, isn't this thread called "workplace funnies"? I don't see a joke here.
Same goes for school system. The factories don't need more slaves....let them be creative, not mentally broken
Reading your post made me think of Pink Floyd’s The Wall…….”Hey Teacher! Leave them kids alone!”
Load More Replies...So this happened yesterday. My boss has been trying to get me to work OT all the time. When hired when asked if I’m willing to work OT I told them no not at all. Well my company agreed to produce 20% more parts per year for a vendor. So asked me if I would come in on Saturday for an hour or two. (Not worth my time in travel or gas) so I will propose to them today that I will work 8 hours Monday, 9 hours Tuesday-Thursday and 5 on Friday and leave at lunch. Gives me 40 hours and increases their production by 40-60%. Let’s see how that works. FYI I am a machinist and the program to make 1 part is 8.5 hours.
I work 80 hours a week. I'm a hero. Just like a blind Hawkeye.
Once again corporate greed has shaped our society and we should not like it, like shaving
Some years ago I worked with a pharmacist from Greece, he was pissed because he was expected to work a 12 hour day. He told me in Greece you close the business go home eat lunch and diddle the wife. He said he was going home because Americans are insane.
I say this all the time, I've gotten better responses from people closer to my age then those closer to death/retirement.
This is why I work enough to cover bills and a little fun. 32hrs a week is still too much. Why can't we get paid $30hr and work 6hr shift 4 days a week or so mething similar. Like high pay, short hours, so it balances out our bills and freedom after work. There's more to life than working!!!!
Because that's not economically viable. You're saying you want a 24 hour work week which would earn you $720 before taxes. Can you live on that? I couldn't. Also for arguments sake, Let's just say you're a cleaner. You're going to be low paid because the work is unskilled and anyone can do it, which makes you expendable. To make you highly paid, the business employing you would have to pay you more and therefore clients either won't be able to afford the service or will find a cheaper alternative. All societies, regardless of which way you lean politically, are designed around each full time worker doing a minimum of 30-40 hours per week. Because the other thing that falls short if you don't is taxes, which means fewer services and support systems. Personally I'm anti tax, unless it's a low, set rate regardless of income, and individuals are able to choose what it's used for.
Load More Replies...You know what the problem is? Making the overachieving outliers the norm, and expecting everyone to follow it. It's such b******t. Same thing with schools.
Maybe these guys are just having a little fun at work, and it has nothing to do with burnout.
This is so true... I worked 15-18 hours a day, 6 days a week when my kids were growing up. I'm a single mom, I missed out on so much! I wanted them to have what I didn't have, then it turned into giving them everything they wanted. I ended up completely exhausted, destroyed my back, and a hysterectomy by the time I was 37. All from working 4 jobs at the same time. My kids are 33, and 34, and are spoiled, and uncaring. It Wasn't Worth it!!!
Yeah, why is this on the list? It’s not funny. BP needs a copy editor.
I was like that for many years, first was a career in the military, where that came before friends and family. After retiring from there went back to school, got a good career in hospitals, but still had the same attitude and approach to work. Fully retired now, and finally realized that there is more to life then work, or the badge of work/career before life, family, and friends.
Honestly, and sorry to bust your bubble, I would rather be working. "Time" at home is a prison sentence.
Whether you work from home, in a hipsterish office, or in a tiny and dull cubicle, there are many frustrating things about corporate life that can make you feel anxious to start a new week. But fear not, you’re definitely not alone. A 2018 survey commissioned by LinkedIn found that a whopping 80 percent of Americans worry about the upcoming work week on Sundays. When the researchers broke down this alarming number by generation, it revealed that over 90% of Millennials and Generation Z reported feeling the "Sunday Scaries."
The survey also showed the main reasons for this phenomenon. "Professionals say worrying about your workload (60%), balancing your professional and personal to-do’s (44%), and thinking about the tasks you didn't finish last week (39%) are the top causes."
Another study conducted by OnePoll and commissioned by luxury home brand Charisma revealed that the "Sunday Scaries" usually start at 3:58 PM. But the good news is that there are ways to fight it. Slightly less than half of the respondents revealed that they deal with this dread by taking time for themselves. They sneak away for about four hours of 'me time' throughout the weekend to binge their favorite shows (50%), read a book (40%), pamper themselves with a bath (37%), or take a snooze (27%). "Taking time for yourself over the weekend is an important way to prepare for the week ahead," Lauren Steinke, senior vice president of one parent company of Charisma, said. "Whether that be watching TV or taking a bath to relax and take your mind off all the other tasks to be done."
One more way that participants mitigate the "Sunday scaries" is by getting a full night’s rest on Friday and Saturday. Unfortunately, not everyone has a perfect sleep schedule, with 71% reporting they usually mess it up by the end of the weekend. "Getting quality sleep during the weekend can help you be more productive with your to-do list and reenergize you for the upcoming week," Steinke added.
Sadly, some employees feel this existential dread throughout the week. Whether their job leaves them with zero energy or motivation to enjoy life or their giant workloads and horrible bosses take all joy away from them, some workers are in great need of a midweek pick-me-up to maintain their level of sanity.
Joshua Klapow, Ph.D., psychologist and creator of MentalDrive, told Bored Panda in a previous interview that every single one of us needs comic relief. "Laughter is the polar opposite of the stress, distress, frustration, and fatigue we can often feel as we work our jobs day in and day out. An intermittent dose of humor that results in a mood shift, even temporarily, can reset us emotionally and give us more emotional strength to carry on in our work," he explained.
There are like five people that can contact me after my normal work routine and they're all family. Everyone else is blocked thanks to "Do Not disturb" and "Silence Unknown Callers". Work likes to use blocked numbers, so guess where that gets them...
If our work makes us feel exhausted and constantly swamped, it can quickly lead to higher levels of stress, anxiety, and even burnout. Sadly, many people fail to notice they’re overwhelmed and emotionally drained, and they glide through life without even realizing they experience it.
Klapow explained that burnout is a condition that is officially recognized by the World Health Organization as an occupational hazard. He listed some of the most important symptoms of burnout people should be aware of:
- Fatigue related to work
- Emotional disengagement and/or apathy for the job
- Dissatisfaction with the work environment despite any changes or positive modifications
- Difficulty concentrating at work, diminished productivity and efficiency, greater frequency of mistakes
- A general dislike for the present work with no optimistic view of changes in the future
Moreover, some companies create toxic work environments for their workers. The psychologist mentioned that once people recognize their workplace could be labeled as one, they need to do what they can to resolve these harmful situations. "That being said, if it is a larger toxic culture, or a work structure that is inappropriate or unhealthy for you psychologically, then it is crucial that you begin to look, if possible, at other work options. Working in a psychologically toxic environment doesn’t get better, it will make you psychologically worse," Klapow said.
Yes, you should use the middle finger, while making eye contact with the source of your anxiety.
If you find yourself experiencing these signs of burnout (general dissatisfaction, fatigue, apathy, no positive outlook about change or the future), Klapow suggested it’s time to take action. First, you could consider a job or career change. “The change may be within the same organization — it may be a different job position or different job duties." Also, you can “spend some time thinking and writing down what would make a job feel more engaging and healthier. You can’t move to your ideal job if you don’t know what it is." Lastly, Klapow stressed it’s important to pace yourself, step back if possible, and take some PTO.
"Ultimately, this is about earning money and living emotionally healthy. If you are earning money but burning yourself out psychologically then the money earned is having negative consequences on you and those around you."
When you’re in bed contemplating how small of a paycheck can I get away with this month so I can just stay in bed and call in sick.
During the pandemic when my office went wfh, they had a tracking app installed on our laptops that took a screenshot every 2 minutes and determined employee efficiency based on the keyboard and mouse movements. So I'd just open a work related document and tape the right arrow key so it was pressed down at all times and the cursor shifted on its own. Ah, good times!
Luckily for us, work-related memes and jokes have a way of helping us unwind from the daily stress. The creator of MentalDrive told us that these funny images mainly serve two purposes. "They often connect us in a humorous way to the not so humorous situations we may find ourselves in at work. They are a way of both acknowledging the difficulties we may be having at work and pointing out the absurdity of them in a funny way."
Klapow pointed out that they can "validate our frustrations and irritations but at the same time put them into perspective by lowering the negative emotional intensity. In this way, they can at times help us to communicate our frustrations or desire for change at work."
He's in a critical condition *beep* *beep* *beep* Oxygen stat! Nurse, injection! Defib charge to 300. Move! Move! We're losing him *beeeeeep*
After all, every employee aims to find joy in their jobs, and one way to do that is to put that work into perspective. Klapow told us that our jobs are the place where we spend the majority of our days. "Even if the pay is good, you have to constantly be checking to see if the pay is justifying the emotional impact," he noted.
"Money alone will not buy happiness at work. Having friends, a social connection, a purpose for why you are doing your job, [meaning] from the work. These are all the paths to happiness at work. If they are not there, it is time to consider changing your job description or possibly moving on," Klapow concluded.
“I’m not great at the advice, can I interest you in a sarcastic comment?”
I've called out because my dog wouldn't poop. Not for medical reasons, he was just being a jerk.
"Yeah..I'm in surgery " " but you'll come in today" " ....f**k you, I quit"
I don't understand the concept of having limited sick days...If you are sick you are sick? You're supposed to go to work being sick? That sounds like a health hazard...
Probably close to 30 years ago my boss was a Polish concentration camp survivor, a beautiful man with a lot of stories to tell. All you had to do was ask after his family and you would get a couple of hours off. RIP x
My coworkers have seen my whole range from gross to cute and everything in between
I did it, not because of vacation days, but because he handled me an (unloaded) gun to deal with four punks. The punks beat and kicked him to the floor while I retreated to safety behind a counter. I quit the next week.
Lol, the number of interviews where college grads ask me "do you get free lunch?" Only if your momma is cooking.
20 years ago we likely wouldn't have admitted this, even in sarcasm. Work culture may not have improved much over the years but I'm glad we can express this now and openly relate.
Personal goal: To get myself a sugar daddy, who don't want no sugar!
That's me 100%. I never call out and I'm never late, but by the casually discarded foreskin of Jesus I WILL bounce early.
Nope! I worked night shift just to stay Away from the "suits"!!! F*ck em!
I literally did this last night, lol. Felt like shít. Manager knew that. We had PLENTY of people. She'd already let some go home early, to save labor. But, and I don't know why, Important Reasons, I'm sure, she wouldn't let me go. So I thought, 'Okay then. If you're gonna waste MY time, the I'm gonna waste YOURS, too.' And I did. No regrets.
Jesus the Nazareth from this site is the least positive and most unfunny person ever. I am an atheist, but isn't Jesus supposed to be nice?
The historical Jesus would encourage confrontation of authority and putting the powerful and wealthy in check. But the maga asshats and white evangelicals have distorted and pervert the real message and created a bastard religion that is merely a self fellating coddle network for overpriveledged white men or the mentally feeble. Which group does this whack job troll belong to?
Load More Replies...Commented on a lot of the posts being rude
Load More Replies...Today, a customer came and proceeded to stand in line, at the back, while telling everyone within earshot her husband had Covid, but she wasn't sure, yet. She gets the call, while in line, and puts it on speaker phone. They tell her she is positive. Then, she wanders all over the store, stops to chat with someone she knows, does some more shopping, then goes up front to check out, amd tells the cashier she just tested positive, so she might want to wash her hands afterwards. 😤😡🤬
Jesus the Nazareth from this site is the least positive and most unfunny person ever. I am an atheist, but isn't Jesus supposed to be nice?
The historical Jesus would encourage confrontation of authority and putting the powerful and wealthy in check. But the maga asshats and white evangelicals have distorted and pervert the real message and created a bastard religion that is merely a self fellating coddle network for overpriveledged white men or the mentally feeble. Which group does this whack job troll belong to?
Load More Replies...Commented on a lot of the posts being rude
Load More Replies...Today, a customer came and proceeded to stand in line, at the back, while telling everyone within earshot her husband had Covid, but she wasn't sure, yet. She gets the call, while in line, and puts it on speaker phone. They tell her she is positive. Then, she wanders all over the store, stops to chat with someone she knows, does some more shopping, then goes up front to check out, amd tells the cashier she just tested positive, so she might want to wash her hands afterwards. 😤😡🤬