The page popped up back in 2018 and has since then posted nearly 900 memes in image and video form.
Like its peers, the main overlying theme is humor and anti-work, but you will see glimpses of pain, wholesomeness and flat-out savage stuff on there too.
While it’s hard to pinpoint particular reasons as to why folks these days really, really, really hate work, reasoned deductions and speculations have been thrown out there on a number of occasions. Some of them are plain obvious, while other reasons do leave food for thought.
Back in 2017, Gallup concluded that of one billion full-time workers worldwide, only 15% of them were engaged at work. The metric is a bit better in the US with engagement reaching 30%, but in either case, 70% to 85% of them are not really all that committed to the work they do.
Many folks just want a good job, but a lot of employers fail to deliver one. And millennials are getting one of the shortest straws out there.
Most of them come to work hyped up and ready to work only to have their souls crushed by old management practices and toxic work cultures.
Gallup suggested that it’s time for organizations to start moving away from command and control management to coaches who’d focus on fostering performance.
This would mean getting rid of wasteful practices and, in turn, would satisfy an expectation most millennials have for jobs—opportunities for development.
This is not to say that it’s necessarily personal development, but just progress in general. Progress for everyone and everything.
But the idea that employees don’t quit jobs, they quit bosses isn’t the only underlying problem. And no, it’s not just the jobs themselves—it can also be the employees that are the problem.
