Fresh Memes and Tweets to Keep You Feeling Positive During a Stressful Work Week

When you're in the thick of the work week, it's hard to feel like there's a silver lining. Any positive spin on things can feel like a bit of a stretch. However, now that it's almost Friday and there's a light at the end of the tunnel (albeit a temporary one considering that next Monday is right around the corner), it's easier to find those laughs…or at the very least, to laugh at yourself. These memes and tweets, which were compiled by @ObsessedWithAnimals, will hopefully do the trick and provide you with some much-needed levity. If not, at least we will have given you something to send to your friends or your work bestie to make you seem cool and funny. We will gladly provide that service for you. Keep scrolling below for this fresh batch of content. For more, take a look at these compelling memes about your most annoying coworkers.

‘I’m a Latino Engineer and I Have to Use a Fake Name Just to Get Interviews’ - Grad Student Gets Repeatedly Rejected, Ends Up Taking Position As Janitor

A Latino grad student took to Reddit to share his misfortune while job hunting and claims he began receiving interviews (only to get ghosted) when he modified his last name to sound less Latino. Serious job offers ensue in the comments.

Scammer Pretends to be CEO in Failed Phishing Attempt, Gets Trolled

Phishing is a very real threat —so why does it seem so ridiculous every time you see a story about it? Every time it makes news —or happens in your own workplace— the story is always somewhere along the lines of "Bob from accounting bought $100,000 of gift cards for fake CEO" or "Deborah from HR gave all the company's passwords to someone impersonating her boss."

You always walk wondering just what in the heck these people were thinking… How on earth did they fall for that? 

Usually, phishing attempts are clear and broadcast. There's broken English combined with general misattribution of workplace phrases, and it feels like something Nathan Fielder would have attempted to produce as a business venture. "Hello, it's me, your CEO. Sorry I died. I miss you so much." (Reference for those wondering.)

Yet, people fall victim to these phishing attempts every day… But this guy sure wasn't one of them.

Keep reading for the screenshots of this exchange. For more, check out this guy who reported all of the IT Director's emails as phishing attempts after he was forced to endure a 2-hour training as punishment for clicking a fake phishing email.

Brother Proposes at Guy's Wedding, Guy Ruins Brother's Whole Relationship

Mess with the bull… Get the horns.

There is little love lost between these two brothers —and absolutely not an ounce of chill either. From a complicated childhood to an entirely hateful adulthood, these brothers have been at each other's throats. That's why when Reddit user u/Neither-Glove-4355 discovered that his brother "Todd" was planning to propose during his wedding, he made all attempts to put it to an end. 

When he brought it to their coddling parents' attention, he was met with inaction, resistance, and excuses —ultimately meaning that the proposal was allowed to go ahead. 

Lo and behold, "Todd" proposed during u/Neither-Glove-4355's wedding DURING the father-daughter dance. All bets now off —u/Neither-Glove-4355 devised the perfect way to exact diabolical revenge. 

Keep reading to see the screenshots of this story, as posted to Reddit's r/pettyrevenge subreddit. For more revenge, check out this guy who got uncomfortably close to the dude who stole his seat on an airplane.

Professor Fails Students, Students Tell Dean, Dean Fails Professor

As a wise man once said— "There's always a bigger fish." But despite originating from one of the greatest thinkers of our time, that concept —that idea—has prevailed throughout human existence. There's always a higher power that we need to call to, no matter who we are: Such as a king—who holds supreme executive power because some watery tart threw a sword at him. 

The idea of being beholden to something greater was something that this humanities professor had forced down their throat after they decided to fail half of their class on a machiavellian final project that, bizarrely, seems like it was inspired by the Stanford Prison Experiment. The Standford Prison Experiment isn't supposed to be an inspirational tale to teachers for their next group project; It's supposed to be textbook for what not to do for an ethical experiment. Although, the idea of likening the SPE to group projects is extremely poetic. 

Anyways: Teacher fails students, students get dean, dean steps in and sorts it out. 

Keep reading for the screenshots and reactions. For more, check out this student who reported their professor (hmm, sounds familiar.) 

 

Chaotic Father Turns His Son's Crayon Drawings Into Realistic Renderings and the Results are Haunting

Whenever a father cultivates the passions of his children, people are usually in awe— that's just good parenting. One father, a graphic designer by trade, encouraged his son's quirky drawings by turning simplistic, disproportional, animal sketches into what looked more like the real thing… at least sort of like the real thing. 

Tom, the dad, asked his son to draw cute little animals for him, and using big-boy tools like Photoshop and AfterEffects, he created distorted, contorted, weirdly haunting versions of the drawings. It's entertaining, to say the least, and surely a fun activity to take part in with your child, however, the resulting images are not only cursed, but they're chilling. Some of the animals are completely unrecognizable, and without the help of the comments section, they're unidentifiable. But that doesn't stop Tom. He's created hundreds of these renderings and is pressing on, hopefully working on improving his child's motor skills with the goal of improving animal proportions. 

Or maybe it's just art at this point.