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23 Employee Burnout Memes to Get You Through Your Late-Week Work Slump (June 20, 2025)

Lana DeGaetano

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Company lays off senior employee 2 weeks before Christmas, asks her to redo part of an old project 6 months later: 'They barely gave me any severance. I was unemployed for 6 months.'

Emmy Pratt

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Employee discovers that they're doing the majority of the work for their team, boss refuses to intervene and distribute the workload: 'Started tracking my workload out of curiosity. Turns out I’m handling roughly 70% of what our team produces.'

Brad Dickson

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Employee finds loophole in company's tracking system, takes 2 hour breaks that are only marked as 30 minutes: 'I did exactly as I was told'

Ben Weiss

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Rental car company tries to charge customer $91 for extra day despite turning in car 10 minutes early: 'If I'm getting charged an extra day, I'm using it'

Remy Millisky

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Entitled employee in her 60s "accidentally" retires: 'Pinnacle level pettiness'

Remy Millisky

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Supermarket stock worker sets a precarious chocolate bar trap, deliberately overloading shelves after a snarky demand from a manager: 'Like a cocoa avalanche waiting to happen'

Jesse Kessenheimer

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'Don't come back': Opportunistic employee goes home early when a scheduled fire drill makes management second-guess their instructional wording

Jesse Kessenheimer

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Employee 4 months into their new job loses 2 days of PTO over an 18 minute lunch break disagreement: '[Boss] told me I took time off on company time and there would be discipline to follow'

Brad Dickson

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'I'm just doing my job': Front desk receptionist detains the CEO in the lobby for security approval after a company-wide email puts them on blast for the new 'NO EXCEPTIONS' policy

Jesse Kessenheimer

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18-year-old retail employee gets scolded for being 6 minutes late to work, then takes their manager's demands literally as payback: ‘If you can’t be here on time, don't come in at all—so I didn't'

Jesse Kessenheimer

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Boss takes 15 minutes off construction worker's pay when he was 1 minute late, his refusal to work sparks chain reaction with other staff: 'I'm not getting paid until 6:15 so I'm not doing any work until 6:15. I enjoy what I do but I don't do it for free'

Brad Dickson

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Employees discover coworker is pretending to have a twin to skip meetings: 'The only difference was that he wore glasses and a beanie'

Remy Millisky

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'Time off and extra cash!': Long-standing employee uses their absentee boss's negligence to score a free 2-week vacation and still get paid PTO

Jesse Kessenheimer

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Manager orders 23-year-old kitchen worker to stop helping with other tasks, causing restaurant to fall behind and customers to lose their temper: 'I’m only following his orders'

Ben Weiss

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'He showed up 45 minutes late, wearing shorts and Crocs': 20+ Bosses who got stuck with bizarre employees

Remy Millisky

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