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'I've stopped trying [and] suddenly I'm promotion material': Burnt-out office ‘try-hard’ refuses to continue going above and beyond, ends up finally getting a 15% raise from the boss after setting healthy boundaries

Jesse Kessenheimer

Husband secretly supports his mother with 50% of his salary, then begs her best friend not to tell her when they find out the truth, drama ensues: ‘He needs to come clean’

Jesse Kessenheimer

20+ Job Interview Memes for Folks Who Can’t Stand Being Asked What Their Greatest Strengths and Weaknesses Are

Ben Weiss

Coworker throws a fit and delivers a mini TED Talk on teamwork after being politely refused help with a task she was perfectly capable of doing herself: ‘I told her that nothing would have happened to her too if she wrote it’

Etai Eshet

23 Employee Burnout Memes to Get You Through Your Late-Week Work Slump (May 9, 2025)

Lana DeGaetano

‘Still fills me with joy and pride': Boss disrespects and underpays beloved manager, so entire staff quits on the spot and 1/4 of their business closes within a year

Elna McHilderson

Employee uses a paper trail to set the record straight when their petty supervisor begins to “performance manage” them out of a job: ‘I responded with facts and data. No response’

Brad Dickson

'We were audited and fined $80k': 25+ Workers whose brainless bosses left them speechless

Remy Millisky

'An extra 0.50 is what this promotion is worth to that company': Worker chases salary increase for 6 months only to be rewarded with a 50¢ raise

JR Atkinson

Quality control supervisor tells fruit-robot-checker to stop reporting issues that she sees and to just do her job: 'Your job is only to count. Count, count, count, and count. That’s it'

Brad Dickson

'How dare you make my son work past office hours?': 30-year-old employee's mom won't stop calling him at work, he finally stands up for himself after she demands to speak to his boss

Isabella Penn

'New boss gives me an impossible task': Overworked IT employee stands up to boss, demands guarantee of never working overtime again

Remy Millisky

Coworker dumps her work onto executive assistant, tries to make her cancel her day off to do extra work: 'That's not happening!'

Ben Weiss

Slacker coworker lightheartedly jokes about never completing job duties, employee seriously agrees and coworker explodes: ‘"You have issues!"’

Lana DeGaetano

Husband gets in trouble with entitled, disapproving in-laws after he turned "their" guest room into a home office: 'They didn't take it well!'

Ben Weiss

'There's ‘no room’ for me, but I'm still expected to drop $200?': Employee gets uninvited from their coworker's wedding at the last minute, then guilt-tripped into contributing $200 for a gift from the team, she refuses

Jesse Kessenheimer