HR may be a critical part of strategic business growth, but it can also feel like a circus at times, right!?
Maybe your boss thinks you know every person’s employment contract by heart, or they want the next worker safety seminar to happen on a Saturday morning. Just like a moment's peace and quiet in your life, it’s never going to happen!
We have the answer! This curated collection of the best HR memes to make you giggle, gasp, or nod in acute affirmation. We've also added some happy work anniversary memes (thanks for the request; we listened!) And, since these are published on the SSR blog, you can technically browse through them at your leisure and call it “professional development”.
So, between hiring the next team of interns, doing workforce projections for the next 2 to 5 years, and hanging balloon garlands for Jenny the receptionist’s office baby shower, take a minute for yourself. You deserve a laugh.
Humorous HR Memes
1. The real MVPs: HR
2. What’s going on in HR’s head?
3. HR: We're like a therapist, a lawyer, and a cop all rolled into one.
4. HR: Where the work is never done and the notifications never stop.
5. The recommended reading for anyone thinking HR is all about coffee and photocopies.
6. When you're so underpaid that your paycheck is a joke.
7. When you’re having one of those days from hell and have to take a minute to pray to the HR Gods - if they ever exist 👀
8. Good ol’ day!
9. I love HR….aren’t I?
10. First day in HR vs. 5 years later.
11. When you're so tired from work that you can't even make it home.
12. Do I love my job?
13. When you’re trying to keep your zen but the pitch deadline is in an hour.
14. What the manager did vs. what HR advised.
15. When you realize that doing well at your job also means you get to do others.
16. When was the last time you had a 40-hour work week?
17. Very easy money indeed.
18. How is HR these day?
19. Sleep tight!
20. When people ask how you handle this job.
21. Exactly, how many hats have you worn?
22. HR on holiday.
10+ Funniest "Recruiting" Memes
23. When you extend an offer to a candidate and they say they need to 'finish out a few other processes' but you know they're just stringing you along.
24. Recruiters when starting the search vs. one month of the search.
25. Recruitment department when the new hire actually shows up on their first onboarding day.
26. When a new hire asks you to show them around.
27. When a candidate literally burns up all your energy but you gotta stay positive.
28. What’s it like to be a recruiter?
29. When a candidate cancels their interview right before it starts.
30. Every candidate according to their resumes.
31. Is Adele an undercovered recruiter?
32. How do recruiters find the best talent?
33. TAs and recruiters’ theme song.
34. Thanks for checking in, email sender.
35. Resume vs. candidate.
36. Who said it?
37. Stay strong, fellow recruiters!
38. Does a happy ending ever exist?
39. Dear hiring manager, finding the right talent starts with the right job description.
HR Tech Memes: When AI and LOL Collide
40. When you don’t have the budget for a new HR system
41. How impressive!
42. When your HR system fashionably fires all employees
43. When the learning curve can’t be more steep
44. When you realize your favorite HR tech is never going to be the same after acquisition.
45. Some HR tech can be real jerks.
46. Happy, or crappy with your HR tech?
47. Fill in the blank: Most HR software…
Job Interview Memes Any Recruiter Can Relate
48. How to answer “Why should we hire you?” in style
49. Thanks for the interviews, we’ll be in touch soon!
50. They must have been working the same job in their past lives.
51. Slay!
52. How to answer the interview question “Why so you want this job?”
53. Workforce scarcity
54. How to answer: When do you find you’re most productive?
55. How to negotiate high salary when you have no prior job experience
56. How to answer “What’s your weaknesses?”
57. How to persuade the interviewer you’re a multi-tasker
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58. How to prove you’re a responsible employee
59. How to answer “Why did you leave your last job?”
60. When a candidate doesn’t show up for the interview
61. Goodbye my love!
62. So all this time I’ve been talking to a ghost, huh?
HR Budget Memes: Making Cents of Humor
63. When you actually get a proper HR budget
64. The CEO must have meant to have another 0 at the end of the approved budget. That must be it!
65. Manager: Let’s stretch our $100 HR budget to buy an ATS, a payroll tool, a performance management system, and an HRIS. Feasible, isn’t it?
66. Can’t go over budget if you don’t have a budget.
67. When you take your first look at your approved HR and recruitment budget.
Funny Monday Memes to Lighten Up HR Workday
68. HR’s Monday survival kit.
69. HR: Monday is the day that my coffee needs coffee.
70. Happy Monday!
71. When your boss asks if you have a minute to chat on Monday morning.
72. Monday mood: Can I get a 'nope' and a 'never mind'?
73. Monday morning checklist: 1. Coffee 2. More coffee 3. ☕
74. Monday deadline
75. Victory Monday
76. Here’s Monday
77. How was your Monday?
78. Everyday is Monday!
79. When Monday hits you out of nowhere
80. How Mondays come at you:
81. Trust me when I say I don’t hate Monday 🙂
Hillarious Work Anniversary Memes
82. How long has it been?
83. James’ work anniversary is coming!
84. Let’s celebrate your 2-year work anniversary!
85. Happy work anniversary buddy!
86. Work anniversary is fun while it lasts
87. When LinkedIn says happy work anniversary to you
88. When you realize it’s your colleague's 5-year work anniversary
89. It’s your 3-year anniversary…
90. Happy one-year anniversary
91. How to say “Happy work anniversary” in style
Conclusion
Now that you’re refreshed by meme therapy, we guess it’s time to get back to those workforce projections. After all, who will look after the team’s well-being, career trajectories, and balloon garlands if not you?
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