No matter what your specific job, most employees have probably dealt with similar problems. They’ve had to weather incompetent managers and tantrum-throwing bosses. They’ve had to deal with toxic workplace cultures and office gossip while fighting for better pay and less overtime.
That’s where the ‘Eff Workipedia’ Instagram account comes in. It’s a social media project that collects and posts some of the most relatable memes about work life. We’ve collected some of the funniest ones to share with you. Scroll down to take a peek. Pssst, Pandas, make sure you send a few of these to your coworkers while your manager isn’t looking! They could probably use a break.
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Rejection letters at least make me feel respected and acknowledged as a human being. The silence just hammers in how little my need to survive crosses their minds.
I'll correct this, everyone who is affected most by these problems are too busy trying to survive that they don't have money, time, or energy to do anything else. This is my experience from watching those around me
I recently got a raise, after telling my boss i was being offered work else where. He was very adamant that i didnt tell anyone because then everyone would want a raise. So naturally i told every one i work with. 3 other people also got a raise, and he dosent know its my fault.
Everyone’s needs and priorities tend to be slightly different. However, generally speaking, employees tend to want fair pay, to be treated with respect, a good work-life balance, and not have to burn out just to put food on the table.
Throw in some career growth, replace micromanagement with more autonomy, and you’ve got a solid foundation for a healthy culture at work.
Thank you for coming in for the interview, but we are going with another candidate.
I work 36 hours - Fri-Sun overnight. Have four days off every week and love it.
Mighty weird comments on this one. Firstly: normally companies like to know why someone is leaving so they get to know if there's an issue that might cost them more employees. Or just an acknowledgement that the message was received is bare minimum. Secondly: The manager shouldn't interrupt her own leave, even if it's a nice gesture. Making sure the person subbing for her knows there's a new employee coming and is ready to welcome them and show them the ropes is more than enough.
However, good pay and decent career prospects alone might not be enough to motivate your staff. As we’ve covered on Bored Panda very recently, recognition can have a lot of positive influence in the workplace. Being understood and appreciated by your coworkers and superiors can do wonders. (But all the other things like compensation have to be there as well.)
Something else that workers value very much is clear and transparent communication. To put it simply, people want to know what’s going on. They want feedback on their work. They want to feel seen, as though someone’s taking an active interest in supporting them and helping them grow.
Totally true. Knowing you can sleep in tomorrow gives you a better night's sleep tonight.
Flexibility is also becoming an increasingly important issue. Many companies are trying to get their workers to reduce the time spent working remotely and return to the office, whether full or part-time. Hybrid workplace arrangements are a pretty good compromise for both parties.
However, some employees won’t want to give up cheaper rent outside of town and the extra time they spend with their loved ones just to commute to the office.
Wrong. You don't have to be tired to want to leave work on time. In fact, nobody is entitled to a reason why you want to leave and you don't have to justify it. You have a life outside of work that is important to you. Your choices are as valid as anyone else's.
I'm holding out for "patient zero" but that is a little lofty, I must admit.
I found out 2 weeks ago that I was given bad information by the company that bought us out and my last check of year would not include the 5 days of pto that I didn't utilize and if I didn't use it I'd lose it. (I really wanted the double check as my deductible starts over). Immediately put in for the last week of year off. They tried to tell me it wasn't doable. Ok. They could either do one week without me or accept my 2 week notice. Somehow it was now doable! I will never pile up my days off again, I can feel the stress and hatred towards customers melting away with each midday nap
Good managers will try to look at everyone’s unique situation and results and see what does(n’t) work, instead of applying a one-size-fits-all solution. Some folks work great remotely and want more peace.
Others thrive surrounded by the constant hustle and bustle of their colleagues. It’s vital to recognize that even though people work in the same teams and on the same projects, the way they approach their tasks can be very different.
You know... if you'd read through your Conception Options instead of just checking, "Yes, I agree" without reading it, you'd have noticed there was not just an option to be born a duck but the specific species of duck as well as the location you wanted to be born. It was all in there.
"Something like this happens only once in a lifetime" is a sentence I heard more than I would like. It is in the news every month. Record inflation, war in Europe, pandemic(s), floods, fires,... can we have a break finally?
Employees who find themselves chronically overworked and burning the midnight oil need to reprioritize their lives. They need to start putting their physical and mental health, as well as their relationships, higher than their jobs again. Work gives us purpose and pays the bills, yes.
But you can’t do your job well if you barely sleep, eat poorly, and ignore the most important people in your life.
When I call off I don't give a reason. Ever. I just say I'm not coming in. Manager: "Thanks, Paul. I'll take you off the schedule." It's that simple. If your boss makes it harder than that you have a bad boss.
Not to be a humourless person who works with semantics for a living, but you prefer discussing the TOPIC of exploitation rather than burnout. Burnout is to exploitation as broken bones are to assault, with the same partial overlap in a Venn diagram (burnout/broken bones are not always caused by exploitation/assault, and are not the only possible outcome of exploitation/assault) and it is not wrong for the term itself to exist. The problem is the refusal to acknowledge when exploitation IS causing it.
Establishing a healthy (or, well, at least a healthier) work-life balance comes down to boundaries. To put it simply, you need to start changing how you approach work if it’s all you ever do and think about.
That might mean that you stop reading emails and taking calls after your office hours end. It might mean putting your phone on flight mode so you can spend a wholesome dinner with your family, without any distractions.
Part of the problem is current democracy. When everybody can vote for some dumbass, who just said "I will fix this" without telling how, for how much or anything else. Or for some big mouth that shouts "everyone else is a [pick slur], we have to stop this" and offers nothing than shouting. In our country three biggest political parties are led by those populistic bastards, that care about no one but themselves.
I have 1 grey hair. It surfaces every year with a certain work project and disappears half a year later. I dropped the client a month ago. Fingers crossed next August it will stay gone.
No matter how important you are at your company and how much money you rake in, you need to have other things to occupy your time. That might be art, dance, music, athletics, travel, or absolutely anything else.
You might want to consider using some of your days off to go on a proper vacation. You can use that time to recharge and remember what you enjoy in life, other than making strides in your career.
And when you get back to work, ask for a raise, join a union, or consider looking for better opportunities at other companies.
I’m happy with my country’s progressive party’s stance, which is effectively “everyone gets a plate before anyone gets seconds” but for time off work. It’s not that reducing the hours of people on 40 hours a week isn’t good; it’s just that helping people who have to work more than that in order to make ends meet is a more pressing issue.
Was a few minutes late and the boss was standing by the time clock. He says "If this was a plane to Hawaii I bet you'd be on time". I said " Yeah, but I'd WANT to go to Hawaii" Even he had to laugh.
At the end of the day, it’s time spent with our loved ones that matters more than what’s in your bank account. That might sound cheesy, but it’s true. Research has unequivocally shown this. An 80-year study from Harvard has found that it’s our positive relationships that make us happiest and healthiest. So it only makes sense to prioritize them instead of leaving them on the back burner.
In my country (not US) most jobs ask for university degree for basic jobs with minimum wage.
I don't know, but watching the news makes it worse, so don't try that.
Even worse when you're forced into these meetings that shouldn't involve you in the first place..
The ‘Eff Workipedia’ account was created in early 2020. Over the past 3+ years, the page has garnered 61.8k followers on Instagram.
The curator describes the project as a collection of ‘antiwork’ memes, referring to the movement that is incredibly popular on Reddit. People who embrace the antiwork mindset generally want a new way of looking at work. As something meaningful, purposeful, and lucrative, not just based on exploitation and fear.
For thousands of years, normal was working a field from sunrise to sunset (70-90 hours) just to feed and house yourself, and hoping blight or drought doesn't kill your crops so you won't starve during the winter. (No air conditioning, electricity, running water, television, phone, padded furniture...….). Yeah, being stressed out all the time at an unfulfilling job sucks. Working for pretentious pricks that are taking advantage of you sucks. But get some perspective. Working 40 hours a week for living conditions that a medieval monarch would envy (during one of the most peaceful eras in human history) is abnormal. Just not in the way you meant.
For years I've had to get up at 4:30am to get to work at 6am. I have cats. Cats do not understand days off or weekends. If you want to wake up at the same time every day without an alarm, I recommend cats. They are very schedule oriented, and no on can sleep through having an eyebrow gently bitten or a cheek repeatedly tapped.
Which of these work memes did you relate to the most, Pandas? Which ones made you laugh the hardest? Did you send any of them to your colleagues while they were busy with their work deadlines? What would you change about your workplace culture if you could? Feel free to share your thoughts in the comment section. And remember to take some time off!
Yes, and… that’s why the question is asked. Folks to make sure you weren’t fired 30 times, too. 🤣
lol. I had one we had to donate to a charity to be entitled to wear jeans on Friday.
In most countries a positive "credit score" is achieved by avoiding them. The US is, to my knowledge, the only one which demands getting into debt and then deciding on the score on basis of the discipline of paying it off. And without a credit score it is impossible to get a lot of important things in daily life done.
Yep, very little time for gaming while earning a paycheck. Bummer but now I can afford the expensive ones! Irony.
F**k LinkedIn. It's where people who can't separate their job from their personal identity go to circle-jerk
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