office life Archives

February 18, 2026 at 2:22 am

Office Worker Refuses Letting Building Maintenance Turn Up The Thermostat For Her Coworker Who Gets Cold Because It Would Make Her Hot

A small office with chairs behind and in front of the desk

The frozen impasse

January 22, 2026 at 11:35 am

Devices At The Office Seem To Have Minds Of Their Own, And Then An Helpful Employee Figures Out What’s Going On

People at meeting desk looking at devices

Devices gone rogue!

November 13, 2025 at 12:15 pm

Worker Is Fed Up With A Rude And Annoying Coworker, So He Put Beef Gravy In His Coffee And Enjoyed Hearing About The Expletives That Followed

Coffee cup on a table with glasses and a notebook

Beef drip coffee

October 14, 2025 at 1:55 am

Young Employee Gets Distracted By Coworkers Who Spend Hours Chitchatting At Their Desks, So He Reports Them To The Manager For Slacking Off

coworkers talking to each other by their desk

Sometimes the loudest distraction isn’t the chatter—it’s the coworker who can’t tune it out.

February 3, 2024 at 2:41 am

IT Department Is Told To Cut Their Budget, So They Make Sure The Pain Flows To All Other Departments

Well done!

September 19, 2021 at 5:47 pm

This Adults Returning to Work Sketch is Perfect

A brilliant sketch from De Ideale Wereld

December 20, 2018 at 11:25 am

The Actual Meaning of 11 Common Email Phrases

Is “Per my last email” the most passive aggressive phrase ever?

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Office Worker Refuses Letting Building Maintenance Turn Up The Thermostat For Her Coworker Who Gets Cold Because It Would Make Her Hot

Devices At The Office Seem To Have Minds Of Their Own, And Then An Helpful Employee Figures Out What’s Going On

Worker Is Fed Up With A Rude And Annoying Coworker, So He Put Beef Gravy In His Coffee And Enjoyed Hearing About The Expletives That Followed

Young Employee Gets Distracted By Coworkers Who Spend Hours Chitchatting At Their Desks, So He Reports Them To The Manager For Slacking Off

IT Department Is Told To Cut Their Budget, So They Make Sure The Pain Flows To All Other Departments

This Adults Returning to Work Sketch is Perfect

The Actual Meaning of 11 Common Email Phrases

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