28 Mildly Infuriating Work Pics From People Who Are Definitely Having A Worse Day Than You
I once spilled an entire cup of coffee on my keyboard twenty minutes before a deadline and just had to keep typing through it and hope for the best. The keyboard survived, and I got my work done, but I do not recommend the experience. That was my worst workday in recent memory, and looking at these pictures, I realize I had it pretty good, actually.
These mildly infuriating work pics are from people who showed up, tried their best, and had the day decide it wasn’t going to cooperate. Every single one of them is relatable, and they’ll make you feel significantly better about whatever is happening at your desk right now.
1. “Insanely frugal employer”
“Gotta pay for water from the water cooler”
2. “Coworker decided to air out their musty socks and make the entire break room reek.”
3. “I could have parked anywhere at work”
“What did I do to the seagulls to deserve this?”
4. “I’m a slightly squintier than average person, and my work dashcam constantly reminds me”
5. “The way my coworker wraps the cord on the vacuum.”
6. “For the past 4 months, I’ve been drawing on the protective wrapping of my whiteboard.”
“I was struggling so hard to rub out the markers, I had to press extremely hard with my eraser, to the point that I thought I had permanently damaged the writable surface and exposed the layer beneath.
Turns out that I’d actually exposed the real whiteboard and it rubs off like a dream. Four months.”
7. “Poster my boss hung up at work”
8. “Tried to adjust the mirrors in the work van today and the knob snapped right off”
“Our company only had one van available to use for this evening, and I had to make a drop off.
Whoever was using it before me sat way lower in the seat, so the mirrors were looking at the curb from my perspective.
I tried to adjust the mirrors but I gave it one jiggle and the knob snapped off. I think the plastic wore down in the 95° heat the past few days.
To make matters worse the backup camera screen is completely broken, so I’m going to be reversing this thing on a wing and a prayer.
Oh well, I got this lol.”
9. “Got a new job where I have to wear a uniform and gloves while working outside, now I look like this.”
10. “Right as I about to start my handyman job”
“Arrived at my client’s place, open my truck and misc tool box spills out. Had to reorganize nails, screws, and drywall anchors each of its own specific size after the task was done which took almost an hour.”
11. “Bought a nice shirt. Thought I could button it up more for work. Wait…why can’t I get the buttons through the holes??”
“I mean I get annoyed enough with fake pockets, but fake button holes?! It’s so ridiculous. It would have literally taken the people two seconds to make them real. It’s not the biggest deal, but it’s definitely mildly infuriating.”
12. “Started a new job, told them my name is ‘Michelangelo’ and this is the name tag they gave me”
13. “One of my coworkers used their finger to scoop margarine out of the tub”
14. “I’m waiting for the elevator at work after walking the dog, going to the store and taking a bus and then the subway!”
15. “New work laptop no longer has a right CTRL key”
“Now I have to use 2 hands to CTRL+ALT+DEL”
16. “We ordered 100 plastic trims for work, and this is how they were delivered. I can only assume it was someone’s first day.”
“They were all individually packed in tubes that were too short, so some bold visionary used weak tape to put two tubes together. The result, as you can see, is broken trims.
And apparently someone ran out of caps, because on some of them, the end of the tubes were just taped shut.”
17. “When a coworker locks a door that clearly says ‘don’t lock’ and I don’t have a key”
“I guess I’m waiting 30 minutes for security to show up.”
18. “This is all I could see of a tailgater while driving my 5-ton work truck”
19. “My work has a sign posted urging is not to seek medical care”
20. “The customer has to refuse the delivery of the item…”
“I talked to the driver who told the warehouse manager not to load it on his truck in the morning, but the manager made him take it to my house in order for me to refuse the delivery.
He said if I wasn’t home, he would have had to just leave it on street next to the curb and have me deal with trying to get someone to come back and pick it up.
This package went halfway across the country, through multiple facilities in this condition and every one of them just kicked the problem to the next person.
If anyone wants to take on the task of writing the ‘Big Book of Common Sense’ we all desperately need, I’m first to fund you on Kickstarter”
21. “Got my boot caught on on a gate while out doing my job.”
22. “The shelf next to the toilet at my job”
23. “Haven’t missed a single day of work this year and this is all my PTO so far…”
“For reference, I haven’t missed a single day of work this year, I work 7 hours of OT every week (never came to work late once this year), and I took a half day of PTO for a pretty serious health emergency last month.
I also work for a staffing agency and they are notorious for not giving PTO to clients but I’ve worked with them for 5+ years and still had to negotiate a PTO plan with the agency and all my higher ups.
This sucks, I haven’t taken a full day off in over a year and a half, and I can’t fly to London to vacation because flights cost a small fortune due to America’s war crimes messing up the fuel economy around the world. Just all-around terrible.
Am I overreacting? My girlfriend in London gets 25 days off to start the year and here I am slaving away in America for what?”
24. “Coworkers leaving their power bricks on their days off”
“Why don’t people just take their crap home instead of leaving it cluttered on the desk”
25. “Glassdoor said I was making up my salary, because it was too low when I reviewed my employer”
“I always knew my salary was well below most companies paying for the same role. But I’m fully remote so I haven’t complained too much, and it’s more than I’ve ever made.
But as I’m looking to leave ( C-level execs got replaced and now we are a sweatshop) I went to review the current state of my employer, and Glassdoor just decided to slap me in the face with a “‘nuh-uh, you can’t be making that low of a salary, don’t lie to us.’
So it’s good to know that Glassdoor doesn’t have accurate salaries, only market based competitive salaries.”
26. “Coworker is too good to throw away paper towels in trash can”
“I dont get how hard it is to throw it away. The can is 2 feet away.”
27. “New colleague reported me sleeping on my lunch break, lost a whole shift w/ overtime as a result”
“For context, I am a full-time hospital security officer who works graveyard shifts, and I often fall asleep on my lunch break because I can’t consume caffeine like a normal person. I cannot leave my site. There’s an unused place in the old part of the hospital that has virtually no foot traffic from anyone other than fellow security personnel checking the emergency exit door nearby, and I use it to rest in because it’s more comfortable than the break room we have.
Recently, we’ve had a few new hires that joined our team. One of them saw me as I woke up to my alarm, and he advised me that I really shouldn’t sleep there, telling me that the client would probably report me if they ever caught me (they never did care, even when a random client did discover me). I just kind of figured that he was just legitimately concerned for me, but too inexperienced to realize how little anyone really cares. I assured him that it probably was going to be alright, and went back to my post.
This morning, I received this text from my Post Commander telling me to take the night off. I had overtime lined up for me tonight, and I’m going to miss it because of that new guy who was so concerned that the client would report me that he reported me himself.
I understand that we have a no-sleeping policy for a reason, but I think it’s b.s. how I’m being reported for something literally everybody does. I’ve seen nurses sleep in the ICU/Med-Surg waiting rooms, for Christ’s sake, and nobody gave a crap about that when I called my supervisor. The nurse even chewed me out for waking them up, and they didn’t care about that either.”
28. “One coworker took all the snacks meant for the team”
“I went on vacation and bought some snacks for the office. Ideally it’s for everyone over the course of the week because people come in on different days.
When I left on Mon, the tin was still 80% full. Then I come in on Tues and everything’s gone except a single snack.
Turns out one guy just took everything before he left yesterday.”