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A young woman wearing glasses sits at her laptop at night, surrounded by piles of papers

Employee is expected to show up 15 minutes before night shift, coworker gets annoyed she doesn't arrive 1 hour early: 'You aren't considered late until after 6'

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Employee refuses to finish his coworker’s work after she missed a deadline and expected him to cover for her: 'I told her she needed to finish what she agreed to do.'

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An employee is writing in her coworker's notebook while she's away from her desk.

Employee snoops through and writes in her coworker's notebook, gets offended when she asks her to stop: 'She said I was overreacting because it was just a notebook and not anything sensitive.'

A young man, wearing socks and flip-flops, goes to work without seeing the problem with his attire.

19-year-old employee shows up to work 2 hours late wearing flip-flops: 'How is this not a fireable offense?'

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Man in a gray suit talking on the phone while drinking a beverage by a large window

Employee rejects promotion that paid him 35% less than what he's making now: 'More responsibility, higher expectations as higher management, but significantly less pay overall.'

Happy woman leaves her old job, confident that her new business will make her a millionaire in two years.

Employee quits job because ChatGPT told her that her business idea will make her a millionaire by 2028: 'ChatGPT told me I would win the lottery by 25 after I asked it enough questions.'

A tired female employee rests her head in her hand while sitting at her desk in her home office

Manager insists remote employee of 21 years attend 90 minute, 6:30 AM meeting three times weekly: 'I am genetically inclined to be a night owl'

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A young college student works as a barista when she's not in class.

Boss schedules student employee for 7 AM Monday shift, even though he knows she has class at that time: 'I can only work the late shift on Monday.'

A young female employee looks over her bank statements, which show she's being paid less than she was before her supposed “raise.”

Boss tells employee she's getting a raise, gives her a $12K pay cut instead: 'Every paycheck is $488 less than what it used to be.'

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30 Work Memes Working Hard to Reward Hardworking Workers With Laughs

Jesse Kessenheimer

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A woman sits cross-legged in bed, holding a mug and with a pillow between her knees, looking at her phone

Employee continuously calls coworkers out of hours, gets blocked for calling before 7AM on day off: 'She thinks she's helping us, but she isn't'

A young female employee works at her laptop after getting denied the promotion that she deserves.

Employee refuses to help her new boss, whom she has trained, with something she's taught her how to do 3 times already: 'I'm sure you can figure that out. It's above my pay grade.'

A woman waters a collection of houseplants on a table

Employee curates desktop plant collection, gets annoyed when coworker continually 'takes care' of them: 'My pothos got repotted [and] my succulent got moved'

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The boss scolds his employee for arriving at the office 2 minutes late.

Boss writes employee up for being 2 minutes late, even though she stays late at work every day: 'I never get paid overtime for it.'

The legs of a woman walking along the floor of an office at night while holding a bucket of cleaning products

Employee takes on second night job to save up, quits without notice when they halve her hours unexpectedly: 'I got no heads up'

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Mom who cut contact with her kid for over 6 months, breaks the silence to complain they didn’t text on Mother’s Day

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Manager hesitates to criticize high-performing employee who refuses to document work: 'The rest of the team is stuck'

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18-year-old refuses to invite his stepmom to his high school graduation because she locked him in a room when he was 6: 'She just doesn't know how to act.'

18-year-old refuses to invite his stepmom to his high school graduation because she locked him in a room when he was 6: 'She just doesn't know how to act.'

Remote job asks employees to video their work-from-home space for social media, employees bristle at invasion of privacy

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