27 Employee Burnout Memes to Get You Through Your Winter Work Slump (January 17, 2025)

Lana DeGaetano • "Show me to me please."

Jan 17, 2025 2:00 PM EST

The January scaries are in full effect this week, and we're sure you're feeling it. It seems like the month of January contains an entire year's worth of time and drags on until Valentine's Day. Though it might be easy to complain about all of the exhaustion and stress you're feeling, sometimes the best way forward is to become a robot until the month is over. What do I mean, you ask? Well, take to cubicle rotting and corporate automaton-ing. After a certain point, you might not feel anything at all!

Some folks despise their jobs in the summertime, but many folks feel similarly in the winter. It's cold and dark, and by the time you get out of work, your body clock tells you it's okay to skip dinner and scroll for five hours until sleep takes you away. Maybe that's just me. Even still, you have to make the most of every winter because it makes up a good chunk of the year. If you've seen Severance, think of your workday like that. I don't know, I haven't seen the show. Maybe I'll do that tonight once my work brain shuts off.

Do what you will with this information, but nothing will get you out of your winter work slump like some memes to help you laugh through the pain.

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Isn't it funny how much our brains try to help us get through stressful situations? Two hours versus one hour and 59 minutes: One evokes a sense of fear and the other, relief. The rational part of our brains knows that one minute doesn't make much of a difference, but seeing that “one” instead of a “two” tricks us into thinking the workday is almost over.
A watched pot never boils, but we both knew that. We'll continue to watch the clock, waiting in agony for the clock to hit 5 PM.
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