Funny work memes you can play

Funny work memes you play with one button. Every day has ten, the same for everyone, and they get faster as you go. Mute before the dog barks, leave at 5:00 on the dot and never reply all.

Ten memes, one button. Do what the slip says.

Normal week. Ten memes, faster as you go.

Take your timeHalf speed. A hold is a press on, a press off. Points don't count.

How to play the work memes game

You play ten work memes in a row, a few seconds each. Each one opens with its word on a slip over the picture, the same word as on the button, and counts you in: 3, 2, 1.

There is one button. Press it, or press Space, when the line under the picture says so. You can also tap the picture. Two memes want it held: the coffee and the team photo.

Meme	What to do
Mute	Mute once the dog’s ears go up, before it barks
Clock out	Press when the office clock reads 5:00:00
Bin it	Drop Friday’s 4:55 invite in the bin
Hide	Flip your screen when your VP stops to look
Reply all	Never press it
Jiggle	Press each time your dot turns yellow
Stamp	Stamp each form that turns over blue, never a red one
Type	Press fast until the screen is full
Grab	Press fast to pull the last slice your way while your coworker pulls back
Pour	Hold to pour, let go between the marks
Smile	Hold your smile through the flash

Good to know

The memes speed up twice, so the last few are the fastest.
Some days change the round. On Crunch time everything runs a step faster, and a Short week plays seven memes.
Turn on Take your time and everything runs at half speed. A hold becomes one press to start and one to stop.

How the work memes game scores

Each meme you win scores points, winning it well adds more, and your bonus multiplies both.

What you do	Points
Win a meme	100
Win it well: an early press, a pour near the middle of the marks	Up to 50 more
Lose a meme	0

A win that earns most of those 50 gets you kudos, and kudos raise your bonus by 0.5, up to ×3. A lost meme drops it by 1, never below ×1. Each win’s points are multiplied by the bonus you played it on.

Ten wins with kudos in a row make 3,750, the best possible score. At the end you get the meme of your round, one frame with its line.

Daily and solo rounds

Everyone who plays today gets the same ten memes in the same order. Solo deals a new run for practice.

Work jokes and office rewards

Work jokes

Each of these work jokes fits in one chat message.

My manager’s door is always open. It leads to a meeting room booked until Friday.
Reply-all is how the whole company learns one person’s lunch order.
Per my last email means I have the timestamp and I’m ready to use it.
We’re told we’re a family here, which explains the group chat nobody can leave.
Every all-hands is a round of buzzword bingo nobody admits to playing.
The deadline was Friday, so the quick review starts Friday at 4:30 pm.
The team told the organizer the Thursday game was great. It’s now every Thursday.

Office rewards instead of a raise

When the raise isn’t coming, the office hands out one of these instead.

Pizza. One slice each, counted before the box opens at the office pizza party.
Branded lip balm. Handed out in the year profits broke the record.
Socks. For the most productive person on the team, who is less productive from then on.
Employee of the Month. A framed photo near the elevators. Payroll never hears about it.
The ice cream social. It’s on Friday. Please bring your own ice cream.

Funny work memes

Office memes

A woman crouches on top of an office desk while sheets of paper fly through the air around her. — Inbox zero, the paper edition.

Three men in gray suits sit at desks, and one tosses sheets of paper into the air while the other two keep working. — Day one of the paperless office.

A young man in a gray suit leans back with his shoes on the desk, holding a cup, beside crumpled paper and sunglasses. — Friday, 4:50 pm. Every ticket just moved to next sprint.

Coworker memes

A man in a dark suit and red striped tie holds a black mug while a colleague, seen from behind, holds a paper cup. — The coworker with a full cup of coffee never has a quick question.

A man in headphones and glasses raises both hands at a laptop on a white desk, next to a mug and printed charts. — Four minutes of talking before anyone says you're on mute.

A man in glasses and a dark suit rests his chin on his folded arms at a wooden table, looking at an open laptop. — Waiting in the lobby for a coworker to let you into your own team's call.

Funny memes about work stress

A man in a black shirt rests his head on his arm on a wooden desk, eyes closed, below a monitor with a green sticky note. — Three back-to-back meetings, then a sticky note that says call back Elena.

An older man in a blue striped shirt and red tie grips his head with both hands and grimaces at a laptop. — The spreadsheet had one formula holding it together. Someone typed over it.

A man in a gray suit and tie pinches the bridge of his nose at a desk covered in papers, with a desk lamp, a mug and numbered binders, in a dark office with a corkboard of photos and red string behind him. — Red string on the corkboard: finance, tracing who approved the offsite.

Questions about memes

What are some meme ideas?

The reply-all chain, the 4:55 pm meeting invite and the ice cream social where you bring the ice cream. Use a photo you have the rights to, and leave coworkers out of it unless they agree.

What is the most iconic meme?

Drake Hotline Bling has the best claim. It tops the all-time list of most-used meme templates, ahead of Two Buttons and Distracted Boyfriend.

What are the top 10 most famous memes?

The all-time top 10 meme templates open with Drake Hotline Bling, Two Buttons, Distracted Boyfriend, Left Exit 12 Off Ramp and Change My Mind. The back five are Batman Slapping Robin, UNO Draw 25 Cards, Running Away Balloon, Waiting Skeleton and One Does Not Simply.

What are some funny work jokes?

My manager's door is always open, and it opens onto a meeting room booked all week. Reply-all is the way one person's lunch order reaches the whole company.

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