Xennial Memes

Topics Adulting

Office Politics

Hand-drawn iceberg with a small boat beside it. A person on the boat says: "What say you first mate? O ideal days...?" Above water: "This Stuff..." with checkboxes "Level of Effort" and "Complexity". Below: "And... Other Stuff..." with 24 checklist items such as Multi-tasking, Handoffs, Approvals, Meetings, Morale, Compliance. Hand-lettered 3x3 chart titled "E-MAIL LIKE A BOSS @danidonovan". Each cell has a blue situation, a red X weak phrase, and a green check stronger phrase. 1: "I took a while but you can deal": X "Sorry for the delay", check "Thanks for your patience". Other cells follow similarly. A slide with a dark teal background and a small red tab at the top right. White capital letters read: "THERE IS NO "DIGITAL STRATEGY" ANYMORE, JUST STRATEGY IN A DIGITAL WORLD." Black borders surround the slide. A man with tousled brown hair in a dark pinstriped suit, dark tie and white shirt glances sideways while adjusting his cuffs against a gray backdrop. Black panel text: "Smile, Listen, Agree, and then do whatever the fuck you wanted to do anyway... - Robert Downey Jr." Footer: "NO REGRETS, JUST LOVE ON DAMNLOL.COM". Infographic titled "Find & Cure Common Writing Flaws", subtitle "A guide for editors". A three-column table: Problem, Symptoms, Treatment. Writing too long: Prose meanders and bores the reader. Suggest what to cut; reorganize what remains. (4). Buried lede: Partway in, you spot the main point. Cut opening paragraphs; move main idea up; rewrite title. (5). Passive voice: It's not clear who's doing what. Rewrite… Six-panel Doonesbury comic by GB Trudeau. A man in glasses on a bed asks a translator: "Tell me, honey--since you're the only translator in China who can still understand the Chairman, how faithfully do you actually carry out his wishes?" She replies: "Well, sir, he changes his mind a lot, and although his word is absolute law, I have to account for that. For instance, last Monday, he told me to have the Great Wall… A 5x5 grid of photos. Column headings across the top: DEVELOPERS, DESIGNERS, PROJECT MANAGERS, QA, SYSADMINS. Row labels down the left: SEEN BY DEVELOPERS, SEEN BY DESIGNERS, SEEN BY PROJECT MANAGERS, SEEN BY QA, SEEN BY SYSADMINS. Each cell shows a stock or pop-culture photo, such as a scientist, a toddler with paintbrushes, a man in a black turtleneck, a prisoner behind bars, and a cartoon man flipping the bird. Three-panel Cracked.com graphic. Top: text reads "In 1980, Mel Brooks produced "The Elephant Man", based on the tragic story of Joseph "John" Merrick, tapping avant garde filmmaker David Lynch to direct. After seeing a cut of the film, nervous studio execs requested that some of Lynch's more abstract scenes be removed." Beside it is a black-and-white photo of a man with tousled hair wearing headphones. Middle: a… Retro poster of multicolored triangle tiles in muted red, orange, green, purple and teal on a parchment border, with cream capital letters reading: I REALLY LIKE THE COLOUR BUT CAN YOU CHANGE IT Hand-drawn diagram with "ORGANIZATION" in a cloud at the center and arrows to eight sketches: 1 "AS MACHINE" (gears), 2 "AS ORGANISM" (tree), 3 "AS BRAIN", 4 "AS CULTURE" (bottle, music notes, cake), 5 "AS POLITICAL SYSTEM" (pyramid: "SOCIOPATHS, CLUELESS, LOSERS"), 6 "AS PSYCHIC PRISON" (barred cell), 7 "AS CHANGE, FLUX" (waves), 8 "AS INSTRUMENT OF DOMINATION" (pistol). Caption: "The 8 Metaphors of Organization…