40 Burnout Work Memes For Anyone Whose Two Milestones Are Lunch And Leaving

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There’s a very specific moment every workday where the performance ends and the real countdown begins, usually somewhere between the first coffee and whatever’s happening in the Slack or Teams chat by 10am. Nobody mentions it directly. You just start measuring the day in smaller and smaller units, four minutes and nineteen seconds left on lunch, three more hours until you can lie down, the exact number of times someone’s said “we’re like a family here” today and meant it less each time.

These memes cover it all, the slow leak of motivation, the donuts that don’t help, the LinkedIn posts that make it worse. All of them will feel a little too accurate.