“Work Sucks, Let’s Laugh About It”: 40 Relatable Work Memes

If you’re lucky enough to work with colleagues you like, the office can feel like a place where you’re paid to hang out with your friends, eat snacks and work on projects of common interest. But some days can be tough even in the best work cultures, and we all have those off moods when we just don’t feel like doing anything as Bruno Mars once sang.

The Instagram account, “ Work Memes Officia l” has some fun posts that anyone with a job can relate to. So scroll below for a humorous collection of clever epithets by some extraordinarily witty folks. These meme creators cleverly manage to convey what we all feel in some measure through their succinct observations and it is absolute comedy gold.

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Brendan : If you can WFH, you’re not allowed to be 100% sick.

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Paul C. : Always remember a customer that I had fitted carpets for saying, “lucky for you it was such an easy job” I said “after twenty years it’s weird how the more I do the job the easier it gets”

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Brendan: Hands down, best thing about having kids.

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Peppy : I like to go that extra milestone and add retirement 😘

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Lee (edited): No. How about we take some of those productivity gains technology has given us, and instead of it making more profit for the 1%, it gives us all better work life balance. Let’s move to a four day work week and/or 6 hour days instead of 8. Let’s not set rigid “must be a morning person” hours to any of that.

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Mary Ellen McCarthy : How do I get myself said demon?

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wowbagger : You just type back “STOP”. Duh.

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SuperChicken : Truer words have never been spoken.

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Lexekon : OHHH… you mistook that for a REQUEST….

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SuperChicken : BAHAHAHAHAHA! Love it.

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Multa Nocte : Evil but satisfying.

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BrownTabby : I bring a kind of “I spent 5 days a week surrounded by people who made me traumatised when I WAS a kid” vibe to these kind of conversations that the OPs don’t really like.

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Papa : There’s a name for that. It’s called Rectal Glaucoma. It’s when you just can’t see your a*s coming to work today.

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Aileen Grist : Yep questions like do you take milk – no I’m. vegan. Would you like. biscuit – are they vegan? Would you like a cake/chip/ most anything going round in an office. You can take something and just throw it in the bin – and they get upset. You can just say ‘no thanks’ and you’ll be asked why not. Can’t win really.

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Luke Webber : I work on contract basis. Grab a rate rise practically every time I switch employers.

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Vasana Phong :

10 minutes of pre-dread warmup, then the actual time to do so, then really get up ( to turn off the alarm)

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Kate : At my job if the power went out for two hours we got to go home and it went off for like an hour and 40 minutes we were so excited haha

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badger: if there were no taxes, your employer would still only pay you the same net pay.

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Brendan: I love this! “She sent that email before checking it over. It’s not a mistake you can afford to make at this level.”

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Jill Rhodry : I always return back to work on a Wednesday or Thursday – no way I’m doing a full week straight after a break.

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Madre_Dr4gnZFly : Explosive Ordinance Disposal.

Shanilou Perera

Shanilou has always loved reading and learning about the world we live in. While she enjoys fictional books and stories just as much, since childhood she was especially fascinated by encyclopaedias and strangely enough, self-help books. As a kid, she spent most of her time consuming as much knowledge as she could get her hands on and could always be found at the library. Now, she still enjoys finding out about all the amazing things that surround us in our day-to-day lives and is blessed to be able to write about them to share with the whole world as a profession.