20+ Coworker Memes for Understaffed Teams of Employees With One Foot Out the Door

Each workplace comes with its own unique issues, especially nowadays. You might find yourself to be a part of an understaffed team, with an awful boss, in a toxic environment… the possibilities are endless. You work and work and work… and your bank account stays on the same number. Proper compensation for said work? In your dreams.

It's frustrating to deal with such negativity on a daily basis, and the one thing that makes it better (aside from memes) is your coworkers. Well, some of them at least.  The others can hop on a train to wherever isn't here. We all have that one person at work who whines all day about how much they work, yet are ironically never seen actually working. 

Scroll down for some of the best memes I've scoured the internet for, that'll have you relating hard (and perhaps wanting to quit even more). You're also welcome to check out this story of petty revenge — a woman found out via office gossip that she was going to be replaced by someone else from a different department. Awkward much?

'Moms are a different breed when it comes to getting tattooed': Tattoo artist shares epic story proving moms handle pain better than any tatted up tough guy

If you have never gotten a tattoo before and somebody tells you something like, "oh it doesn't hurt on your thigh" or "oh it huts more on the ribs than it does your feet"—that's BS. First of all, it is different for everybody so no one place is going to hurt less than the other. Also, yes, of course it is going to hurt, you're getting jabbed with a needle a million times over and over again. How you handle pain is what matters. Tough dude "alpha male" wannabes are always acting like they can handle anything because they were in one fight when they were blackout drunk in college. But get them under the tattoo machine and the are squirming and crying like little babies. You know what type of person can usually handle pain better than any other? MOTHERS. Giving birth has been related to going to war in past cultures, it is THAT painful and traumatizing. After you go through that, you can handle a little one-two-jab under the epidermis. 

One tattoo artist took to her social media to share one of her favorite tattooing experiences. She said she had a group of early to mid 20 something girls come in to get matching Playboy bunny tattoos on their butts. The tattoo artist says she loves tattoo girlfriend groups because she basically becomes one of the girls while she works and it's always a nice fun time. All of the girls had precious tattoos except for the youngest. She was so afraid to ago the entire time and her friends basically just kept telling her to stop complaining. The tattoo artist was kind of feeling sorry for the youngest because nobody was validating her fear of getting her first tattoo, until on of the girl's friends told her she will be fine because she literally just have birth without an epidural a few months ago. When the tattoo artist heard that she knew it was going to be a breeze because moms handle pain the best out of all of her clients. 

Check out the entire story below!

'He immediately asks me when I’m going to do laundry since he’s very nervous': Woman screws up BF's important interview on purpose

This guy prepped for an interview for weeks, but it still didn't go perfectly!

Interview prep involves a few things: printing out a few copies of your resume, mapping out how to get to the job site, and preparing your interview clothes so you make a great first impression. This woman shared her frustrating experience with her job-searching boyfriend, who didn't quite get around to the clothing step of preparation. Instead, he tried to get his lucky blazer cleaned on a regular laundry day by his student GF, who routinely handles that chore. He didn't give her much warning though, and she ended up sleeping through the time period she could have laundered the blazer. The BF was mad, and has threatened to move back with his parents. 

Commenters urged the GF to leave this man-child, but others claimed this was an ESH situation. After all, if the GF didn't think she could handle the blazer laundering before the deadline, she should have said so. But also, the BF is seemingly not pulling his weight while unemployed, and letting his busy GF handle even these time sensitive errands. Commenters agreed that she should dump him ASAP. 

Next, this person asked if she's a Karen for mulling over this random moment at Disney — and people assured her she is! 

'The entire class is fed up': Veterinary students take a stand against their tyrannical teacher's unreasonable demands

The illusion that all teachers are benevolent beings—there to teach you the shining light of their ways and the depths of their infinite knowledge—is shattered when you reach higher education. There you become faced with the reality that is a world of disgruntled, entitled adults with domineering attitudes who are determined to pass on—with unfettered rage—the types of institutional wrongdoings that were done to them. 

It's the type of attitude you face time and time again as a young adult: "I had to deal with it, and now so do you," an ageist ritual of ensuring that no young upstart usurps the natural order by stepping on their neck quickly—and as often as possible. It doesn't matter what novel ideas you have to share or personal experience and skills you have to offer—the institution requires that you face this time and time again until you relent to your place in the world.

There's often little, or nothing, that you can do to remedy this course… unless your entire class decides they aren't putting up with it any longer, as these students did when faced with the autocratic culture of their veterinary school.

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Keep reading for this thread, as it was shared on Reddit's r/maliciouscompliance subreddit. For more, check out this terrible teacher who gave a flatulent team detention.

Wholesome Children's ICU Nurse With a Hardcore Mohawk Draws New Designs in His Hair Everyday to Entertain His Kiddo Patients

Critical care units at the hospital can be a bleak place, but one post-punk ICU nurse has one way to keep everyone smiling: his elaborate mohawk. Some people were just born to bring color into the world and Zach is no exception, expressing himself every day at work with the mega-fin on his head and colorful bursting designs. At the beginning of the pandemic, Zach struggled to find ways to keep his own kids at home entertained so to pass the time (and have some fun_, he shaved his head into a 6" mohawk, glued it upwards into the classic fan-shape, and let his sons go nuts on it with stencils and paint. This crafty home project turned into something much more wholesome and meaningful when Zach started wearing his wacky hair designs to work. He found that he could entertain the kiddos in the ICU at his children's hospital, bringing laughter into every hospital room he walked into.

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Every day Zach would walk in to check on his ailing patients sporting a new mohawk design, bringing smiles to everyone's faces with colorful drawings of whales, flowers, bears, sunsets, holiday themes, cartoons, and sports team logos. Zach has gotten infinitely more creative as time has gone on and even shocks his coworkers with new stencils and colors on a regular basis. Sometimes, a nurse like Zach is all you need when you're tired, sick, and healing in a hospital bed. 

'Call the cops? If you insist': Guy makes a scene at the reception of job interview, leaves in handcuffs

I think it's safe to assume here that this guy did not, in fact, get the job… but—hey, job interviews are stressful experiences, and each of us handles that stress in different ways. I, personally, make it through a job interview by completely blacking out from the stress and dissociating from my body; I couldn't tell you what happens in the time that follows, what I say or do—or even who I become is completely unknown to me. 

Now, I wouldn't recommend this strategy for coping with interview stress. Still, it is probably superior to shouting down the receptionist of the place you're interviewing because they asked you for simple identification. It's safe to say that if this is how you react to a simple request, you will be an absolute nightmare to work with.

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For more, check out this interviewee who walked out of an interview before it even started.