Wrap up the year with these 20 December memes for work

December: the month your email inbox doubles in size, your patience for coworkers shrinks, and the office thermostat can't decide between setting Arctic tundra or tropical rainforest. As the year winds down, so does everyone's motivation, replaced by dreams of holiday cookies and PTO. But fear not! Before you completely check out, we've rounded up the perfect antidote to end-of-year chaos: memes. Those glorious little squares of humor speak truths we are all too professional to utter, or at least most of the time. Be it battling through the spreadsheets that seemed to mount up in some fever dream of an accountant gone awry or dodging team-building activities masquerading as holiday cheer, these December memes will make you keep a tinge of laughter in your belly as we crawl towards that glorious finish line.

1) It's called director's cut

Canceling all OTT subscriptions since Janet and Karen's microwave drama keeps me hooked.

2) Brutally honest emails

This guy looks like he has been in a meeting since 1998, but who hasn't? We are all carrying that existential dread.

3) Act II, Scene V

Do they need a favor? Did they poison your coffee? Suspicious doesn't even begin to cover it.

4) See no evil

Management thinks if they wait long enough, you will solve it yourself. If you don't, they are ready with Hubble-level vision to zoom into your mistakes.

5) Set the bar too high

If you are good at what you do, you need to do more of that. It's simple.

6) Early retirement

I am mentally halfway out the door and in anticipation of hitting that log-off button one last time.

7) Don't burn bridges

Watch me throw gasoline on every bridge out there.

8) Art of getting neither

You can have neither and still survive... sort of.

9) Sick day leave

My soul is on life support. Does that count?

10) Why am I trending?

Do these job posters only want to know if we are alive? Or are they window shopping?

11) Give it up for Rachel!

Go ahead, judge me - I deserve it.

12) Monday's sneaky cousin

Tuesday is the quiet office villain. It's the real enemy.

13) Guilty as charged

*Slowly puts it in the I will deal with it later folder.*

14) 100% food coma

Right now, I am all about the pie.

15) Why am I like this?

So you are telling me I was here last week? Strange!

16) My calendar is full

Work-life balance, they said.

17) Sounds nice, right?

If that's not special, I don't know what is.

18) My bad

Totally on me for the confusion.

19) Goals for 2025

Rolls eye so hard I pull a muscle.

20) Is this a joke?

Now, I am just rich in experience.

So bookmark this page, share the laughs, and keep the spirit of humor alive as we close out another trip around the sun. After all, if we can't laugh about work, what's the point?