25 Dark Humor Work Memes for Holiday-Minded Employees 'Circling Back' in 2025 (December 30, 2024)

Jesse Kessenheimer • Writer and Editor

Dec 30, 2024 1:00 AM EST

The whole month of December is an abyss for productivity.

Emails go unchecked, calls go unanswered, and your boss is probably living it up in their Hawaiian beach house for the holidays, so why should we even bother working hard? Holiday bonuses were skipped despite record profits and just as the pizza party slices are getting stale, the entire C-suite goes on an extended vacation to the Alps, flaunting new ski gear and a total disregard for the workforce.

That's why we're just going to circle back in 2025.

It seemed so far away just a few short weeks ago, but suddenly, the new year is around the corner, enabling procrastinators, exhausted employees, and the entire working class (apart from retail workers) to kick up their feet a little, turn on their away message, and let Q4 fizzle out to a close. We gave it our all, fellow workers, and we deserve a little bit of an on-the-clock holiday. So scroll onward to waste some work time checking out some dark-humored memes that match your energy right now. Because every 'urgent' work project starting to sound more and more like a 2025 problem...