Funniest Memes We Saw This Week About the Joyous Job Application Process

As much as we all love to complain about our career choices and annoying positions, it's definitely safe to say that we prefer this boring stability over the high-stress environment that is the job-search world. When you're searching for a job, whilst being unemployed, it is virtually the only thing you can think about. You see all of those negatives in your bank account, and suddenly you lack the energy to care about anything else. We think this must relate to some hierarchy of needs. But who knows, we're definitely not experts on anything about here.

 

Whether you are currently searching for a job, or simply reminiscing on the good old days when you were unattached to any single corporate company, these memes will surely serve as entertainment for you. Will they help you get a job? Unless of course, you're thinking of possibly applying to FailBlog. Cough Cough - Wink Wink.

New Manager Cancels Overtime, Supervisor Leaves Them to Wrap-Up Alone

This newly-promoted manager made the classic blunder of trying to implement change before first understanding how things worked at their new job. It's a mistake you see made repeatedly throughout your life, but it just keeps happening. Someone somewhere needs to start training their new managers to observe before making changes. 

This thread was posted to Reddit's r/MaliciousCompliance subreddit by Redditor u/scifielder, who was more than happy to leave when their shift was over and not work the overtime they were no longer being paid for. 

Readers, as always, reacted in the comments and offered some advice.

"This is why if you start a new job as a manager, you don't touch anything for at least a month so you can see how things do or don't work," offered highfatoffaltube with some sage advice. "If you are thinking of changing things ask some of the people who have been around for a while what they think first."

HR Professional Sparks Conversation on Whether Not Getting the Job or Being Ghosted Is Worse During the Interview Process

"If hope is dead and you k*lled it, let a b*tch know! "

Bar in New Zealand Sparks Controversy, Roasted For Posting Job Ad With Requirements For 'Double D Breasts'

Photos have surfaced of a wanted ad allegedly posted in a bar in the South Island of New Zealand, calling for a part-time worker who "Must have double D breasts," among other qualities. 

The ad appears to have been posted in the window of Stumpers bar in Hokitika, a small town on the west coast of the South Island of New Zealand. The ad reads as follows.

"WANTED:
Part-Time Bar Staff
Apply with-in-
Must have Double D
Breasts, A Great
Smile & A Good
Attitude, But Men
Can Also Apply!!!"

Photos of the job posting have been making rounds online and drawing the ire of the internet wherever they are posted. The images eventually wound up on Reddit's r/antiwork community, which often deals with issues of employment and hosts discussions about the problems workers face in the modern workplace. Unsurprisingly, commenters within this online community were outraged at the posting, pointing out how sexist and demeaning its requirements were.

"The owner's trying to hire Meatloaf," user mannygay jokingly remarked.

"Men with Double D breasts, this is your time to shine," quipped DontSubtweetMe.

"Don't know New Zealand law but I am guessing that might not be quite legal," said autisticsh*tshow.

Commenters on the Facebook posts of New Zealand news stations were not quite so sympathetic. 

"Not sexist, good bit of humour, people have got to chill out!" remarked one commenter.
 

Scroll on for images of the ad and reactions from the r/antiwork thread. What do you think? Sexist malarky or just a good bit of humor? 

Wife Serves Fake Meat to Meat-Loving Husband and Son, They Freak Out, Sparks Voracious Online Debate

This wife and her daughters decided to play a trick on the male members of the household, who held a ridiculous disdain for any meat alternatives. (They clearly have been taking one too many pages out of Ron Swanson's book.) The wife slipped the two a meat alternative without their knowledge in their spaghetti sauce. They loved it until the plot was revealed, after which they proceeded to lose their minds.

To be completely honest… If your masculinity is so fragile that it can be destroyed by a tomato, then you need to take a seriously good look at yourself. That being said, I agree with the argument that you should never put unknown things in people's food.

This thread was posted to Reddit's r/AITA (Am I the A-Hole) subreddit by Redditor u/cheekylilbooger, who was wondering if she was in the wrong for tricking her husband and son.

Whether or not the poster was the a-hole in this situation was a divisive topic of conversation. Most seemed to think the poster was an a-hole for messing with people's food without telling them. This seems to us to be a very valid point. Others felt that "everyone sucks" for the aforementioned reason, combined with the fact that the father and son acted like immature a-holes. Others still thought that the poster had done nothing wrong since the father and son didn't have any allergies or moral objections to what they were being fed.

Here are a few examples of the takes offered in the comments, although arguments got more heated and multi-faceted than this. 

"This is not really a meat eater / vegetarian issue," said RatioNo1114, voicing one side of the argument. "Tricking someone into eating something other than what they thought they were eating is a massive breach of trust, the fact that the substitution is harmless is irrelevant. That your aim was clearly to shame or embarass them over their dietary preferences does not help. Would it really be that different if they cooked meat and fed it to your daughters, telling them it was soy? YTA."

"Stop comparing what op did with feeding meat to vegetarians," advised CuteHoodie. "It is not the same at all. Father and son eat vegetables, vegetarians don't eat meat. Plus eating animals (aka things that were alive and sentient) [is] way different than eating plants, things that were never sentient/ never felt pain. It is not comparable. OP may be an a-hole but it is absolutely not the same as if her husband was feeding her -and her daughters- meat."

"NTA. They don't have allergies," stated ntrrrmilf. "Their concerns are not with the moral or environmental impacts of the fake meat industry, so it is not a flipside of being vegetarian or vegan. They are just being stupid. Make them cook their own meat."

Update: Supervisor Fired After Forcing Cancer Patient to Turn on Their Web Camera

This university student was a member of their student ambassador program; essentially they had to work a few hours a week and help out at university events to promote the university in exchange for their tuition. Like any organization, the positions that managed these ambassadors attracted some real power-hungry a-holes —case and point… u/rainier-cherries' supervisor, Ms. M.

The original thread was posted to r/MaliciousCompliance by the cancer patient, u/rainier-cherries, who shared their story to a HUGE reception, with the post earning over 60k upvotes.

"Would love an update on this," commented xoxoLizzyoxox on the initial post. "I'm sure she will be reprimanded as you have proof you said you would be medically busy long before the meeting in which she chose to ignore. If I were you, I would make a formal complaint as it is exposing your medical information to everyone in the meeting. Also, you rock; keep on kicking butt."

The original poster followed through and submitted a lengthy timeline and update to r/MaliciousCompliance (from item #16 onwards.) There they explained what took place after the original post, a series of events that culminated in Ms. M being sent packing.

Scroll on to see screenshots of the tale and some of the reactions below. Again, the update starts on item #16. 

For more student stories check out this student who decided to sink their group project after they were left to do the entire thing.