I Just Had To Turn Off My Camera In The Company-Wide All-Hands Because I'm Cackling So Hard At These 24 Painfully Accurate Jokes About Corporate America

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Kids are constantly asked, "What do you want to be when you grow up?"

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But what they don't tell you is that your answer barely matters, because there's a 99% chance you'll end up in a career where everyone is a stakeholder, everything is a deliverable, and your days are spent touching base and circling back until you die.

That's why Threads user @danidonovan hilariously imagined a world where we were all born fluent in the corporate jargon that we all somehow end up learning. "ever since i was a little girl, i've dreamed of creating deliverables for key stakeholders," she joked.

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Let's just say people really ran with the bit and piled on with their own versions in the replies...

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You deserve a break from your cubicle, so here are the 24 most hilarious fake dream jobs people shared:

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@marsupial1866 / Via threads.com

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@zathrus1 / Via threads.com

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@missusgalloway / Via threads.com

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@terrymilesinfrance / Via threads.com

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@acromanu / Via threads.com

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@reflexfilms / Via threads.com

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@novakain4u / Via threads.com

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@mark.rechtin
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@yargle_blargle / Via threads.com

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24. And finally:

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To all the corporate weapons reading this, I hope you got a much-needed chuckle.

Welp, here's to another day of crawling toward that retirement date...

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...and praying not to be impacted by the next "restructuring." 🫠

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Now, if you'll excuse me, I have a few stakeholders to align, but let me know what job you dreamt of as a kid in the comments.

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