HR memes for all people looking for a job and all employers trying to find the right employees

Giuliana Tiscioni • Writer

Oct 10, 2026 6:00 AM EDT

Looking for a job is never easy, and being on the hiring side has its own problems.

Anyone who has ever had to look for a job knows how hard it is to deal with the HR department. And anyone who has worked or still works in the HR department knows that dealing with crazy people constantly is one of the toughest jobs out there.

Even if most of the time we don't like them very much, HR people are needed. They handle negotiations and conflicts between managers, employees, and even between the owners and everybody else. They are in charge of all the hiring processes (the firing process, too). They receive everybody else's complaints and try to keep everyone happy enough to convince them to keep working. That can't be easy. No wonder they always look like someone stole their sandwich. They have to absorb a whole bunch of negativity. And yes, sometimes they also underperform at their jobs, but who doesn't?

I've never worked in HR, but if they are the ones giving out the performance reviews of all the other employees, who reviews them? Do they review each other? Or do they have their own sub-department? I need answers, so please, if any of you work in HR, I'm asking you to let me know how all of that works.

In the meantime, both you and us can enjoy these memes. Everybody has had an encounter with an HR person, and we can all laugh about all the misunderstandings that happen in a big company!