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40 Hilarious Memes For Frustrated Underpaid Employees, As Shared By This Instagram Account
Some people are lucky enough to love their jobs. Or at least they don’t mind spending 40-plus hours per week at their workplace. You see, office life can often be a real challenge where only a handful endures the petty drama, lousy coworkers, dictator bosses, and seemingly innocent whispers by the water cooler.
So if there’s any chance you’re feeling down because you’re overworked, underpaid, and undervalued by your employer, we’ve got just the treat to brighten your day. Enter Underpaid Employee, an Instagram account dedicated to sharing memes and jokes about the misery of having to work our lives away.
"My bonus this year was an oatmeal cookie," the creator of the page writes and offers a collection of posts to bring us some comfort. Since everyone needs a midweek pick-me-up every once in a while, Bored Panda has collected some of the funniest memes from this account you might have no trouble relating to. Continue scrolling and upvote the ones you enjoyed most!
Psst! If you’re in the mood for some more employment madness, check out our previous posts about work-related memes and jokes that sum up the 9-to-5 grind all too well.
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ravina nimje 3 years ago
dont listen to them, its most fun activity an adult can do which keeps you sane at work.
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Felkey Felkey 3 years ago (edited)
But sleeping is fun... On Saturday I usually get up after 9 hours of sleep, go work out, eat lunch, then take a 3-4 hour nap for good measure...
Roadkill The Brave 3 years ago
Every time I finally take a vacation everyone wants to know what I'm going to do. I'm going to Club Home, they have this new DJ called Sleep, I can't wait to hear it's hit re-mix called Bed. (I do more than sleep but Sleep is usually the first two days.)
Micah 3 years ago
I'm partial to the playlist that shuffles deep sleep, nap, eating, lounging, and TV.
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Eddsworld_Encanto 3 years ago
Don't forget the anime and ramen in complete darkness in a blanket cocoon
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Tee with a Twist 3 years ago
I did this before. Thankfully I had to go to the bathroom and something told me to look at my phone. Still on the calculator screen.
Diedre Barlow 3 years ago
I wish I was that lucky. I wake up at 5am even on my weeks off. I go straight back to sleep smiling though obviously.
Chances are, you've already heard that the labor market is a mess right now. Companies are watching millions of their employees walk away in droves, leaving employers and recruiters scratching their heads in confusion and wondering how to fill all the empty positions.
For decades, many workers have felt they are being mistreated with poor wages, long hours, heavy workloads, unrealistic expectations, and skyrocketing levels of stress. After all, there’s only so much a person can take, so many decided to stand up for themselves and look for better opportunities elsewhere. In fact, the mass exodus of employees leaving their jobs after Covid broke out called the Great Resignation shows that workers truly have the upper hand.
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Scagsy 3 years ago
I have to say Raven, that you have captured the bitterness beautifully in those three words. I feel your pain.
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Blackstone 3 years ago
Not if the boss pressures the new employee into giving free overtime "just like everyone else" because it's a "non-profit and we all have to do our part". Looking back I was soooooo naive. 🤦♀️
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MediumPimpin 3 years ago
At my last job I fully intended to only work there until something better came along.
Andy Frobig 3 years ago
Maybe I'm cynical for thinking all jobs suck, but I never thought any of my jobs was a dream job & I don't think most people would
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PenitentEyeball 3 years ago
The meme says “He”, but even if you didn’t know “they” is a perfect (grammatically correct) replacement for ”he/she”…
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Catlover129 3 years ago
I managed a call center for a Fortune 500 company. The idiot VP of Operations, my boss, sent everyone an email at Christmas thanking them for working so hard so he and his family could enjoy a "month in Europe and this fine new vacation home in Tuscany" (photos of course attached!). 37 people in my Dept. quit the next day. I left two days later when I learned "Our budget is not allowing holiday bonuses this year...".
Aussie Bloke 3 years ago
I remember about 20yrs ago, the company I worked for bought out about 6 other like companies, then listed on the stock exchange. The next day each manager drove into work in their flash new cars - Ferraris, even a Bentley...
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Falcon 3 years ago
This is so true. Had a new hire assigned to me to "show them the job" We talked a bit and turned out our project manager lied about the pay. You'd get that salary if you worked every day about 12h and on the weekends. So yea, there is potential, but it's not realistic. Haven't seen the guy since.
DrGirlfriend 3 years ago
Every time , I'm high energy and everyone hates me for it. Makes being the new person a living hell.
Almost 69 million people quit, were laid off, or discharged in the US last year alone, with 47.4 million leaving their jobs voluntarily. If you’re wondering what were the reasons they felt pushed over the edge, a recent Pew Research Center survey found the main ones. It turns out that low pay, lack of opportunities for advancement, and feeling disrespected at work were their top motivations to quit.
Their survey also found that those who left and found a new job are more likely than not to say their current employment has better pay, more opportunities, more work-life balance, and flexibility.
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Wistiti 3 years ago
There used to be a guy like that at work. I was on his team and he took full credit on his own. Each one of us left his team and we told new people to becareful about letting the guy going on meetings with the boss on his own. He was the type of person that sent emails to a hundred people to make sure everyone knew he was doing something.
Micah 3 years ago
I feel like there's a person like that at most companies. Mine was a woman who has been with the company literally longer than I've been alive yet she knows little about how to do the job. Every now and again she would make a big deal about getting a task done and tell the manager. I would say to the manager, "Do you know why you don't hear me congratulating myself for doing my job? Because I'm busy doing my job."
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Catlover129 3 years ago
My old boss would do the same thing. He did nothing all day long except hand out assignments, which were all HIS assignments he'd been given by HIS boss. We all knew he did this. Finally, I handed him a report with totally false information I made up. He never checked it! It was for a board meeting, info his own boss had requested. Needless to say, once the report was reviewed by the Board it was questioned and found to be totally baseless in fact. He was fired! As he was escorted out of the building by Security, we all lined the corridors clapping as he left, hanging his head in embarrassment.
DrGirlfriend 3 years ago
Every single time, at the end of my shift I'd tell the incoming officers what happened overnight and one of them would immediately send an email to the boss before I was able to write my reports out. And everything I did she got credit for. I caught on about a month or so in kept my mouth shut. Hard when you have to pass on info to incoming shift.
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von Funnyname 3 years ago
that's oddly specific... you've had experience here, i like your style
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Daniel Marsh 3 years ago (edited)
I'm guessing he's got fresh legs while they just ran 26 miles? But links please... this sounds hilarious!
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Michaela Riedrich 3 years ago
There is even a video of a Chinese cameraman running as fast as sprinters in the 100m race despite a small camera in his hands. It’s from 2021.
While everyone wishes to be paid fairly for their work, a study found that when it comes to comparing paychecks with other workers, things remain a mystery. Research from Payscale reveals that employees tend to believe they are underpaid when apparently they are not. Their analysis was conducted using over 383K responses to their online survey where respondents had to provide their salary, job title, and demographic information.
Workers also had to answer several questions about how their pay compares to other employees, whether they plan to actively seek new employment in the next six months, and evaluate whether pay determination at their organization is a transparent process. To say the least, the results came as a surprise — employees have no idea whether or not they get a fair salary.
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John Smith 3 years ago
I had a college that went spare when you responded to an email that didn't specifically reference you. So a general question to an email group was only to be answered if it specifically asked you personally a question.
august is mentally unstable 3 years ago
please there are so many meanings for cc I don't even know what they mean anymore. i mean there's content creator, custom content, etc. I'm literally going to cry wtf
V Michael Lazar 3 years ago
"CC:" stands for "carbon copy," harkening back to a time when a memo had to be physically typed out and physical copies were made using carbon paper. Email structure directly mimics corporate memos on paper. The only difference is the CC: line is now at the top instead of the bottom.
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Nicole Weymann 3 years ago
...so here's your inspirational coffee mug aaaand a warm handahake on top!
Marco Hub-Dub 3 years ago
Really? How about you TRY to express it with money? Let ME be the judge if I took your sentiment correctly.
RafCo 3 years ago
That literally happened to me. I worked out a $2.7 million guaranteed sale for my company with a client in Latin America. I got a $5 gift card to Starbucks in thanks. The assigned "salesman" got ten percent. He never spoke with the client. I never met with him, the client had no idea who tf he was. I never worked so hard again. Lesson learned. That was twenty years ago. Honestly, the "bonus" was a slap in the face.
More than a half (57 percent) of people who are paid at market said they are underpaid, and 42 percent of people who are paid above market believe it as well. However, this false impression makes them consider looking for better opportunities elsewhere. According to Payscale, the biggest problem is that most companies don’t engage in pay communications and pay transparency, which means that a lot of their effort to provide proper pay goes unnoticed.
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Mike Loux 3 years ago
András Arató - he has a TED talk and everything about being a meme. It's actually pretty cool. He seems like a heck of a nice guy.
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Jeff Striks 3 years ago
Hot take: the ones who are tired of working from home have dysfunctional personal lives and escape to work instead of working on it
King Kashue 3 years ago
Only three groups want everyone back in the office: Gasoline companies, commercial real estate landlords, and foolish, insecure, control freak employers willing to pay extra costs just so they can peek over employee shoulders and micromanage.
However, employees also tend to underestimate what others are earning in similar jobs at other companies, one study finds. "Workers wrongly anchor their beliefs about outside options on their current wage. In particular, low-paid workers underestimate wages elsewhere," the researchers wrote. They added that if workers were better informed about the wage disparities, at least 10% of jobs in low-wage firms would not be viable at current salary rates.
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Scagsy 3 years ago
This is your boss! Get back to work or I will revoke dress-down-fridays privileges. You have been warned.
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Jeff Striks 3 years ago
When one person on the team flags an error, the rest of the team ignores it, and then the clients explode. Guess who gets blamed? The one who flagged it
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This might hold people back from seeking better-paid jobs or starting conversations about higher earnings for their current roles. "When it comes to asking for a raise, it's crucial to define the value one is adding to the company, the reasons for a raise (inflation, extra responsibilities, is it a competitive salary within an industry), and be able to communicate this," Evelina Vilke, a career coach, job search strategist, and personal branding expert, told Bored Panda in a previous interview.
She explained that "lack of willingness to address employees' requests and have discussions around pay rise from senior management demotivates staff and potentially can create a toxic working environment."
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TrickQuestion 3 years ago (edited)
Animaniacs years ago had an ad for rosebud frozen peas. "Full of country goodness and green peaness"
Francine Govan 3 years ago
YES! with Brain as Orson Wells ... "Oh, that's terrible ..." as he walks away shaking his oversized head! LMAO.
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"One of the reasons why people want to change jobs is to get a pay rise," Vilke added. "Sadly, it's still much easier to secure a new role with a significantly higher salary than to get the same pay rise at the organization where a person worked for an extensive period of time. Hopefully, leadership training programs will change this, and more CEOs will understand that employees are the ones that make their company a success."
But while we wait for the company owners and department heads to put in the effort to understand their staff's wants and needs, we can at least try to poke fun at our unfortunate situation. We just hope that this compilation of funny pictures and jokes courtesy of Underpaid Employee will help you unwind and let out a few genuine laughs.
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Mistralok 3 years ago
I haven't seen that type of pasta. Does anyone know what it's called? Would make a good Halloween dish.
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Katherine Boag 3 years ago
Think you missed their followup tweet about increasing gender pay equality in cooking professions but ok
King Kashue 3 years ago
As did tons of people because a massive chunk of folks don't click through to read the whole thread. Which is why this was such a colossally stupid way to present the "message." Whoever thought to do it the way they did should have been fired, not because of the content of the tweet, but because you don't want a PR/Social Media 'specialist' who fundamentally misunderstands how Twitter is used. The way they did it was the equivalent of making a massive error in on the front page headline on Monday and then printing a correction on page B27 on Tuesday.
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If more people learned how to cook then more women AND men wouldn't have to choke down all that fast food garbage.
ravina nimje 3 years ago
its not about cooking skills, its about amount of efforts , time and money needed to make food.
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Monday 3 years ago
Only because they took it out of context. There was a follow up tweet.
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Felkey Felkey 3 years ago
Plot twist, they're all in the same office already.
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Olga Aftyka 3 years ago
Nobody taught me not to use perfectly good words I learned in fear of being treated like a snob
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ButterflyMcQueen 3 years ago
Me in the monthly safety committee meeting cuz I hate being there, and I've been trying to get kicked off for the last year😐
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Eddsworld_Encanto 3 years ago
That explains why i always eat so much on the first day of the school week
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ButterflyMcQueen 3 years ago
I would take dinner with my manager, he has good taste in food and always pays!!
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iffypedia 3 years ago
my back after going back to back-to-back useless zoom meetings and then going back to my bed
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River Webb 3 years ago
not gonna work, i need the asteroid that took out the dinosaurs to land on my back, maybe then it will stop hurting
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Adagar 3 years ago
If you're going to censor the meme why use the meme at all? The meme literally has ONE word, and it's apparently unacceptable.
Spork420 3 years ago
Agreed. This censorship is out of control, and has completely ruined so many memes and posts on this site.
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Gummy_wormz 3 years ago
Round and round and round we go and round and around we go (round and round!) 🎶
Alma Muminovic 3 years ago
Well s**t just think, if it collapses while your on it and you somehow survive you can sue!
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Lynette Foxen 3 years ago
It was the opposite for me. 18 yrs on the same job and NOTHING was what it was like in 1999. Potential employers Texting My Phone?? Trolling during job interviews then using it against me for not catching it as the 2 managers shot side glances and stifled smirks? First job I got was in a Bistro where the owner had zero management but ran her business from her phone while stalking the 30 cameras she had installed. After I quit and called about tax forms I was told she'd be in Texas for a Month. Tax forms arrived in the mail with her foot print stamped in dirt on them. I think this can be properly surmised as devolution.
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River Webb 3 years ago
does cause drama though, which can be interesting to watch if your not involved
Dan Padgett 3 years ago
Just drop the bomb and walk away to watch from a safe distance :)
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Chris Osborn 3 years ago
Ahhh ... but karma is a b***h. I was on the receiving end of it at one time, quite unfounded, unable to provide any different perspective and lost my job. It all worked out in the as I'm now making thre times what I was. But, lesson learned. I wasn't part of the group, liked, or wanted around.
cybermerlin2000 3 years ago
Watching someone get told off by the boss for being lazy and work-shy will give you a few minutes break. Being told off by the boss for being lazy and work-shy can give you 10 to 30 minutes break. Yes, boss, you telling me off for not working is stopping me from working. Don't forget about my excessive toilet breaks
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Maya Baggins 3 years ago
Why would you do that? Isn't it worse than setting the last alarm and just wake up?
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John Smith 3 years ago
Plenty of room for more damage there.. his hand is still below the top of his head.
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Weim Central 3 years ago
Double space is perfectly fine after a period. Yes, I'm one of those!
Chris Osborn 3 years ago
Double space is correct after a period. Thank you.
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martin734 3 years ago
How about posts from people who actually enjoy their job? I love my job and find it extremely rewarding. I will admit that, like most other jobs, there are times when I get home from work feeling low and occasionally unappreciated but those are rare and there are times I think about quitting and setting up on my own but I have worked and studied hard to get where I am.
DDmaybeandor 3 years ago
I’m lucky I guess because I love my job too. It’s a struggle going in most days because I also love being in bed or being with my family, but once I’m there it’s great.
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whodunnitfan2013 3 years ago
I hate that society encourages sacrificing your health and happiness for a job. Everyone is just another cog in the machine.
martin734 3 years ago
How about posts from people who actually enjoy their job? I love my job and find it extremely rewarding. I will admit that, like most other jobs, there are times when I get home from work feeling low and occasionally unappreciated but those are rare and there are times I think about quitting and setting up on my own but I have worked and studied hard to get where I am.
DDmaybeandor 3 years ago
I’m lucky I guess because I love my job too. It’s a struggle going in most days because I also love being in bed or being with my family, but once I’m there it’s great.
Load More Replies... whodunnitfan2013 3 years ago
I hate that society encourages sacrificing your health and happiness for a job. Everyone is just another cog in the machine.
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