‘Sometimes I spend whole meetings wondering how they got the table through the door’: The best relatable work memes this week (March 18, 2024)

By and large, I’m happy not to be twenty years old anymore. You know what I do miss, though? The fact that I was a student and had all those precious hours of free time that went along with it. Oh, how I would use those hours differently with the gift of hindsight. You see, …
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‘Ma’am, you do know Google is free right?’: Hotel clerk gets fed up with demanding guest who expects clerk to be an encyclopedia

Do you even stop to think – how on earth did people manage to live their lives before the internet existed? Sure, it might have been more peaceful and carefree times, but how did they go places without GPS? How did they find information without Google?  I know this sounds completely ignorant of me, but …
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40+ Memes to Help You Through the Ups and Downs of Employment

Beep, beep, beep… That’s your alarm going off. Your hand reaches over groggily, trying to press snooze. Instead, you knock the small lamp off your table, which makes more noise than your alarm clock and boom, you are wide awake, and angry. Why is it that we are so much more irritable when we’re tired? …
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‘They raise morale in jail like they do at work’: The best relatable work memes this week (March 11, 2024)

Intrepid is the soul who can get through a full working week without feeling exhausted. Don’t get me wrong, those of us who have cushy laptop jobs are a world away from those making a living doing relentless manual labor, but it still takes a lot out of you mentally to be focused on this …
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«In a Work Hotel, you did not pay for one of life’s greatest joys’: ‘Corporate girlie’ gets chastised for complaining of hotel boredom on a business trip

I’m fortunate in a lot of ways when it comes to my job, but one perk I wouldn’t mind having is being able to take work trips. Pretending you’re important in a couple of meetings, then enjoying the spoils of your all-expenses-paid hotel? Don’t mind if I do. OK, so I know things aren’t always …
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Management takes away employee’s sick day if they’re 1 minute late for 4 shifts; ‘Is this legal?’

I am not someone who is cool when people are late all the time. My time on this earth is valuable, and I don’t appreciate having to wait for 20 minutes outside of a restaurant in the cold because my friend’s «train» was «late.» At the same time, I’m not a wholly unreasonable person. I …
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‘We are all mercenaries. Act like it’: Cold-blooded company fires employee on their 2 year anniversary

Being fired has to be one of the worst feelings in the world. Sure, if you’re doing it right, a job is never everything to you, but it is a whole lot. It means stability, routine, and an income upon which to build your life. But aside from the logical concerns, getting fired can also …
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‘Sorry, can’t come in today’: Employee Calls in Absent for 11 Years After Getting Disciplined for Arriving 22 Seconds Late

Why are micromanagers allowed to manage people, systems, or anything at all? Who put them in charge? They need to be fired, asap. One employee was fed up with their strict office administrator who wrote them up for being 22 seconds late without notice. Suddenly I feel better about my own managers… 22 seconds? Is …
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Coworker demands employee come in unpaid on his day off to check freezer temperature: ‘Yea, I ain’t doing that’

To work or not to work when you’re not being paid? That is the million-dollar question many employees have to ask themselves daily. In my honest opinion, I think whether you can or should work off the clock depends on what kind of job you have. If you have a coffee shop MacBook gig paying …
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Bittersweet Memes for Hard Workers Who Make Lemons Out of Lemonade

In the corporate business world, life is challenging. I mean, we work long hours at the office—some of us even drive a significant distance to get there every morning—and there is an incessant flow of work to be done. As I like to say, we have two choices: laugh or cry. In my experience, laughing …
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