14+ Pics That Will Make You Laugh If Your Job Is A Hot Mess
We're not kids anymore. We're money-making, child-rearing, coffee-whitener-using adults without facial tattoos trying to make that coin so we can buy the good ice cream at the grocery store. You know the one, the German one. We need a good laugh to keep ourselves and our bosses sane.
Tap into your 9-5 angst and get ready for some memes that will have you laughing or breathing slightly harder at your desk. Send them or don't to your coworkers. Not like anybody actually opens the email threads anyways.
Sneaking Into Work Late With A Coffee
Listen, some of us just aren't made to be work machines. There's no point in showing up to work if you're not spiritually ready to show up to work. So, if that means grabbing an iced latte before work so you can be mentally present, so be it. Oh, and you're leaving early too by the way.
Don't let the stares of your jealous coworkers dull your shine either. They're just peasants who know nothing about the good life. Now make sure to keep your sunglasses on indoors so they know that too.
You Know The New Guy's Spirit Will Break Eventually
He's just hopped off the promotional video track and is using the word "team" with reckless abandon and you just stand there waiting for it all to come to an end. The new guy's so young and ignorant and ready to please - just wait until he's had his soul sucked out by his first rude customer.
You're older, wiser, and more used to everything. When he finally breaks you'll be able to pick him up and invite him to the "cool" work parties. But until then, he shimmers too brightly.
The Clock Is Against Us
Some days just feel longer than others. Ok, most days feel longer than others. This meme is exactly how we all feel when you've only been working for 30 minutes but it feels like an eternity!
However, you can't argue with the clock, so you just gotta keep on going. This feeling is even worse when you realize that on top of the clock coming to a stand-still, it's only Monday!!
Have A Breakdown At 1pm To Spice Up The Work Day
When you start you're probably given a plethora of tools to help you with any questions or concerns you may have. That toolkit includes manuals, online info, training videos, and several senior coworkers willing to help. Why use any of that though when you can just have a breakdown?
Sometimes the workday is long and hard and the quickest way to 5 o clock is to just mentally check yourself out at the first sign of a minor inconvenience. Bonus points for demanding a raise after you threaten to quit.
Only Top Tier Grocery Store Cashiers Have Every Code Memorized
The order goes God, Jesus, Saints, and then grocery store cashiers who've been working the till longer than 3 months. They magically have the code for every single vegetable and fruit memorized. Seriously, you hand them a dragon fruit and they punch 37627 without even blinking - and you thought you had a good memory.
Whenever you line up you always try and choose a till with one of these monsters or else you're going to be there forever. When you spot a "trainee" badge just run. Dragonfruit isn't worth dying of old age in line for.
Waking Up At UnGodly Hours For That Paycheck
When work is the only reason to be up at the crack of dawn it can be hard to get out of bed. So you hit snooze. Then you hit it again. You hit it so many times that now you're late and you have to scramble for the door. But those extra 10 minutes were so essential weren't they?
We all can relate to the serious mood this picture is giving us. Throw in a half-eaten bagel in her right hand and pajama shorts tucked into dress pants and that could be any one of us.
The "Don't Do This" But Actually Do This
Whenever you start a new job you basically get trained twice. The first time is by a senior staff member and it's so brutal you start thinking you're not cut out for the position. The second time it's by the part-timer who's been there for 5 years and takes 20 minute smoke breaks and he teaches you what's really up.
It's not cutting corners, it's increasing efficiency and customer satisfaction in the end. Just make sure you don't do your second training anywhere near your boss. That's an awkward situation.
We All Have The FM Radio Control Monster Inside Of Us
We've all got that one coworker whose taste in music is abysmal. They're also always the one that gets in the earliest and tunes the radio to the station they like and subjects us to their awful music. Just use headphones, Karen, please.
The vacuum is a formidable contender for the most stressful part of office radio listening. You don't want to show your dark side, but the janitor just made you miss the "scattamoosh scattamoosh" part. Take deep breaths and a 15-minute break to play it on your phone in the parking lot instead of screaming.
Don't Let The Inanimate Objects In The Office You Feud With Win
Office signs are a lesser-known art form that takes a real grown-up class clown to master. They have to be subtle but relatable and make everyone laugh while still being angsty. It's a delicate balance.
At the Van Nuys post office, they know office sign humor and human-machine war better than anyone. No matter how often machines rise up and try and thwart our fun with their breakages and sinister power outages, we must stay strong. So next time you plug something in, you tell it that it better charge or else.
A Job Half Done Is Still Done?
Look, I'm not here to judge. You know, and I know, that every once in awhile your heart just isn't in it and you hand in a job that you know is done but like, not great.
Will it stop you from you advancing in your career? Hard to say. But will it stop you from being asked to do extra work again? Probably.
Hiding With Your Coworker From Your Boss So You Don't Have To Work
This is the reason why they invented water coolers and conference rooms. Just make eye contact with your favorite coworker and you both silently drift away from your desks to go stand somewhere and act busy. Cough a few times and yell out the word "report" and you should fool anybody.
Spongebob's and Patrick's calculated blank faces are very relatable to us all. They're the standard go-to if you're not innocent but you want your boss to think you are. If only they were holding papers or something they could gesture at to further throw Squidward off the scent.
Proofreading Emails Because You Can't Actually Cuss Someone Out
Sometimes you don't have your trusty coworker to look over your shoulder and critique the polite hate you're sending to Janet over in accounting. Sometimes all you have is yourself and you have to practice that thing called empathy so you stay employed.
This tactic also works if you get the Google-robot to read over your email in its weird voice. That way it's like the inner monologue in their head. After a couple of rounds of that, you might choose to take out the part you called them a "donkey." Or not.
Get There 30 Minutes Early To Get Your Morning Cry In
We've all done it. We've all sat in our cars before our shift starts trying and failing to not be miserable. Maybe you've shed a tear. Maybe you've shed 20. But no matter how much you cry before, it will never measure up to how much you cry after.
When your boss asks you why you sat in your vehicle for so long instead of coming in you can always tell him you fell asleep. You're tired and that's why your eyes are red. Now make your way to the bathroom to have a post-cry-cry.
It Feels Like You Never Get All The Instructions
Why is it that when your boss gives you something to do they only give you half the instructions and act like it is going to be some kind of learning experience to figure it all out? Sure, it usually ends up being a great learning experience, but at what cost?
Only Those In The Medical and Service Industry Fields Will Get It
First responders, nurses, surgeons, and ER staff can relate to the feeling of being always on call and ready to suit up and trek out at a moment's notice. The rest of us with 9-5's and regular schedules just look on in awe and wonder how they ever make it to a bank that's open.
If you're in the service industry you can definitely relate too. You've probably long given up on telling friends and family you're working 6pm-2am and then opening the next day at 7 am. Now you just send a picture of your schedule.
This Has Been You If Your Boss Comforts You Instead Of Helping
We've all had moments at work when you feel like you're on fire. Not literally or in the sports movie doing a great job kind of way, but a stress fire in your brain way. There's no Rocky Balboa on the stairs montage moment here. It's only a chaos tornado that your boss calmly watches from their office.
This face perfectly sums up the feeling when you tell your boss you're struggling and they tell you "it's going to be okay" instead of helping. Yeah, you know it's going to be okay but it's very far from okay right now.
There's Never Any Privacy
Something about working that is both good and bad is the workplace best friend. At some point, the person you sit beside at work ends up knowing more about you than anyone else in your whole life but you only speak Monday - Friday between 9 am and 5 pm.
If You're The Parrott Guy In Meetings We All Hate You
We've all settled into our meetings ready the be bored and let our minds drift off into space. That is until our peaceful boredom is interrupted by the one guy who just repeated exactly what you said. It's okay to feel murderous as long as you don't do it.
This meme should make you angry because there are enough people out there doing this that it got popular. If you do this to other people you should stop because you're making everyone's day worse.
When Your Boss Makes You Work Over Christmas
Maybe the busy 4th quarter madness has set in or maybe you work at a restaurant that doesn't know the meaning of the word "holiday." Seriously, your boss looks at you like you're crazy if you ask when the place is closed.
This office worker is definitely grinding out a Christmas shift and is 1000% over it. He's dressed to play the part of the elf for his kids' Christmas party. Hopefully, he remembers to take the office lanyard off before getting into character as Jolly The Happy Elf.
Hands Up If Angry Yelling Customers Still Rattle You No Matter How Many Times It Happens
Life has ups and downs. Sometimes you drink the milk and other times you're lactose intolerant and drink the milk anyways. We've all been there. But if you work in customer service it can be a real spiral downwards when a bad customer wanders in and starts yelling at you for no reason.
What did you do wrong? Probably nothing, but maybe it was the wind changing directions or their Spotify playlist repeating the same song twice in a row that set this angry customer off. Regardless, you're probably going to take it personally while crying in bed.
When You Walk Past A Coworker's Desk After You Sent Them An Angry Email The Day Before
We've all done this. We've all pressed send before taking a second to ask ourselves if what we're typing sounds aggressive or not. Now that you've reflected on your tone and usage of "personally" in the email, you kind of regret it. Only kind of though - you still meant it.
Just throw a neutral face on and some large sunglasses when you walk past their desk and act like you didn't just drop an inbox bomb on them the day before. Just don't breathe too loud and maybe they won't spot you.
This Man Who Made His Chair More Ergonomic After It Broke
Life is all about turning lemonade into more ergonomic and lumbar supportive office furniture. Twitter account @MPSStamfordHill knows this all too well when they tweeted that, 'there was an incident in our #Office this afternoon.'
This man and this chair just weren't meant to be together and that's fine. Sometimes the chair you love doesn't love you or your spinal disks back. Hopefully, he can find the confidence to pick himself up and start looking for a new chair in the Ikea catalog soon. The Millberget model seems like it would support him through anything.
Just A Break
We all plan and hope for our vacation to give us the mental break that we deserve. Long weeks of work pile up and before we know it, we've become burned out. But after seven days off, mornings spent sleeping in, and a healthy amount of sunshine, we feel better.
That is, only to go back to our employer, where no doubt, a larger than average pile of work is waiting.
