Porcelain Safehouse: How ‘bathroom camping’ became Gen Z’s mental health break in the workplace

You’ve only just walked into the office and your boss is already on your back about next month’s deadlines. The chattering voices of your coworkers waft over the cubicles, and the tinnitus in your ears rings over your manager’s muffled nagging. Your aching mind wonders how, after six months, you’re still juggling three specialized office …
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‘This and your HR manager’: 26 Best Memes Roasting That Cheating CEO at the Coldplay Concert

HR is supposed to protect employees’ rights in the workplace. Often, with the company guidelines in hand and waving around the latest Code of Conduct in the faces of the employees, the work of an HR manager usually goes unrecognized. Employees will hem and haw about their duties with the HR office, but the CEO …
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30-year-old employee gets paid $27K a month to sit around and do nothing for 7 hours a day, asks how to deal with the boredom: ‘A good paycheck doesn’t cancel out mental burnout’

Where are all these jobs where you sit at a desk all day and do nothing? I’ve known so many people who have full-time jobs where they barely do anything, and are able to get away with it for years at a time. It’s normal for a company to have busy seasons where employees have …
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30-year-old employee has quit 9 jobs in 11 years, starts to hate himself for it: ‘I think it goes deeper than laziness’

We’re told we shouldn’t tie our self-worth to our ability to work, but that’s easier said than done. When you meet a stranger, one of the first things they ask is, «What do you do?» which is a fantastic question to answer when you work for a meme website, but it’s more challenging when you’re …
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25 Restaurant Memes for Workers Who Live Off Tips

If you work in a restaurant, odds are you probably live off tips. It’s both a blessing and a curse. Back when I was a server, my coworkers and I made $3.25 an hour. How is that even legal? I don’t know but apparently, it is, thanks to the magic of tipping. I don’t understand …
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Remote employee berates coworker for asking CEO why they can work from home and she can’t, refuses to apologize despite making her cry: ‘I would never do what she did and now she won’t do it again.’

There’s a social code among coworkers. Nobody wants to be the person who rats out every mistake a coworker makes to a higher-up. Sometimes, small mistakes can be corrected at the lower level, and no CEO, CFO, or Editor in Chief cares to know about it. We learn this lesson very early on in life. …
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Entry level employee does nothing at work for 8-hours a day, has lasted 7 months without issue: ‘My bosses respect me and even thank me for my work’

How many of you know a guy like this? He makes tens of thousands of dollars more than you do, and all he does at his job is sit around, stay «on call,» and watch TV all day. I’m guessing at least one or two of your friends have a job that allows them to …
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‘Keep it, Merry Christmas’: Holiday loner spends Christmas Day gifting cash-back to gas station employees, making strangers smile with random acts of kindness

Almost nothing is open on Christmas day, but if you’re an unlucky employee forced to clock into your ‘essential’ workplace on December 25th, odds are, you’ll be spending the day lamenting your own boredom and cursing the manager who scheduled you. This holiday loner decided to spend their typically lonesome day greeting those unfortunate Christmas …
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25+ Memes for Retail Workers Struggling Through the Busy Season

If you’re a retail worker this time of year, bless your soul. You are out here fighting demons every day. And by demons, I mean overzealous Karens with a little too much time on their hands and a paucity of empathy and compassion. With everyone doing their holiday shopping, things get majorly busy around this …
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Work Laugh Balance: 28 Office Memes That Touch Base With Your Bandwidth for LOLs

Attn: Office employees, meme lovers, coffee refillers, et all.  (BCC: CEOs, micromanagers, and hovering HR-types), It has come to my attention that a certain je-ne-sais-quoi has come over the office. Overworked and underpaid employees wallow in the pits of the break room, afraid to take their mandatory 10-minute break for fear of getting behind on …
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