The workplace is many different things for many different people. For some, it is a location of misery and persecution that they dread putting themselves through every day. For others, it’s a refuge and a place where their professional dreams promise to come true. For most, it is simply the place they go to and do stuff in exchange for a salary that they hope will allow them to live their lives without too much of a struggle. Society tells us that we have to work to earn a living, and so that’s what we do.

It is a system that every employee is acutely aware comes with its downsides. It isn’t all bad, though, and one of the benefits it allows for is to be able to relate to work memes. Their accurate and amusing musings on what it means to exist in the workplace are enough to stave off the clockwatching for a little longer.