Your Weekly Monday Morning Meeting of 24 Work Memes to Help Employees Kick Off the Workweek With a Laugh (September 7, 2026)

Celeste Mello • Writer and Editor

Sep 7, 2026 6:00 AM EDT

There is something almost too perfect about our Monday morning meeting landing on Labor Day. A holiday meant to recognize workers should be celebrated by leaving workers alone, right? Still, our meme meeting won't be cancelled.

Sorry to bother you on your day off, but it's for a good cause: memes! The good news is you don't even need to open your laptop for this meeting. If you are lucky to have the holiday off, protect it at all costs. Don't open your laptop "just to check one thing," because one thing leads to another, and suddenly you've spent an hour checking your inbox and responding to your emails. An hour you will never recover. So, today, no more computers. No more emails, no more important quick calls. For a while, just memes.

Not everyone gets to log off, I know. Retail employees, restaurant workers, healthcare staff, customer service teams, and plenty of other people may be clocking in while everyone else posts pictures from home. For you, today, your efforts are enough even if they're not much. Do what you can, and if there's something you can't, just leave it like that. The Tuesday version of yourself will figure it out.

Whether today is a holiday or an ordinary shift for you, workplace humor remains the same. You can still gossip with your coworkers. So consider this the only important meeting you will attend all week. It doesn't require much effort on your side. You only need to scroll, laugh, and maybe send the most accurate one to the coworker who makes the day bearable. These work memes won't solve all your daily tasks, but they can confirm that somebody else has also stared at the screen, wondering what, exactly, they were being paid to understand. Personally, I can understand whatever I set my mind to, except for spreadsheets. I will never understand Excel in my life.

If you are off, enjoy your freedom without checking Slack. If you are working, I wish your customers patience with you and that your shift passes quickly. Either way, we should all postpone work seriousness until Tuesday.