21 Employee Burnout Memes to Get You Through Your Late-Week Work Slump (July 18, 2025)

Employee burnout tends to get us all at some point, like the flu or the common cold, but it's important to find a way to laugh through the pain. Memes exist for that very reason; They provide us solace in moments of hardship because laughing truly is the best medicine. That's true, at least, for work stuff that we can't seem to get off our minds.

Our darkest moments often occur in the space between 9 am and 5 pm. When you think about it, we spend most of our lives making a living at a desk, or behind a register, or in a recording studio (and many other places, obviously). The key to coping with this somewhat grim reality is realizing that making the most of it, truly, is the only thing we can really do. So, yeah. I'm going to bring my Rubik's Cube to work and listen to my True Crime podcast when I'm doing busy work. Who's going to stop me? Well, my boss might, but…

Let's laugh about it, shall we? All the stress, the "circling backs", that one coworker who can't seem to stop distracting you. It's all the same at the end of the day—life is what we make it. After all, we just have to make it until happy hour…

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