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A young confident employee wearing a sweater stands in the hallway at the office after asking for a lofty raise

Employee doing the work of 2 people asks company for a $40K raise: 'It would cost the company $120K to hire another employee to do my previous job.'

A coffee shop worker smiles as she hands a customer a paper bag over the counter

Boss demands lowest-paid employee spend $100 on lunch for customer, she worries she won't get paid back: 'Is it not etiquette to pick up the check?'

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A burnt out employee sitting at the desk after coming back from three weeks of vacation

Employee takes 3 weeks of PTO, returns to work feeling as burnt out as he did before the vacation: 'My motivation for work is basically gone.'

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Remote employee quits, boss forces them to travel across the country and stay 3 months to finish their work: 'No is a complete sentence'

A smug boss sits at his desk, hoping that his former employee will come crawling back to him after he laid her off two weeks before Christmas

Boss lays off employee 2 weeks before Christmas, asks her to do unpaid work for him 2 months later 'as a friend': 'The only other employee, his wife, left him and the business.'

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Employee leaves job of 5 years with no fanfare, regrets spending years in a toxic environment: 'I left like a ghost'

Employee giving presentation in conference room an hour after she was told to start said presentation

Boss asks employee at 8 AM to make a presentation for the whole company at 9 AM: 'He is the same guy that passed me over for a promotion.'

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Employee makes half-joke about asking for 'allowance' when boss calls them family, boss retaliates and buries him under projects: 'It was clearly tongue in cheek'

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The Best Relatable Work Memes This Week

The Best Relatable Work Memes This Week

Young female graphic designer working on her laptop at home

Job seeker steals roommate's portfolio to land a new job, roommate tells their new boss the work was stolen: 'They rescinded her offer within 2 hours.'

A boss and an unqualified employee writing on a white board at work

Unqualified employee pretends to do job for 8 months, fears she'll get caught when her boss asks her to lead a meeting: 'I've been surviving entirely on confident nodding.'

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Boss reprimands employee for leaving at 5:10 when his hours are 8:30-5: 'It's the worst work culture I've ever encountered'

A man sitting at a table using a laptop computer

Boss asks employee why she didn't respond to the message he sent at 10 PM on a Tuesday: 'When did we all agree that being available 24/7 was normal?'

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Computer store boss ignores $110k debt, gambles at the casino and ignores employee concerns: 'The creditors are lining up to seize the equipment'

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A hand holds a paper plane as if to throw it, with blue sky, trees, and high rise buildings in the background

Printing company demands manager increases morale while mandating 12-hour days, gets annoyed when he hosts paper plane competition: 'You did what?'

Senior businessman using smartphone in formal clothes with grey hair and beard

Job fires beloved 70-year-old boss who has been at the company for 50 years without giving any severance: 'They gave people who worked here for 2 years severance in December, but not him.'