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There Are Two Types of Office Workers: 45 Cubicle-Life Jokes

45 'There are two types of people' jokes for office workers: meetings that could've been emails, reply-all chaos, 'per my last email,' Slack threads, and the 4:45 EOD deadline.

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45 'two types of people' jokes for office workers: meetings that could've been emails, reply-all chaos, 'per my last email,' Slack threads, and 4:45 EOD.

What are "There are two types of people" jokes? They are a short humor format that contrasts two opposite workplace habits or types in one punchline, usually opening with "there are two types of people."

45 There Are Two Types of People: Office Edition

There are two types of people in a meeting: those who could have sent an email, and those who did, and scheduled the meeting anyway.

There are two types of office workers: those who say "per my last email," and those who deserve it.

There are two types of office workers: those who mute on the call, and those breathing directly into thirty headsets.

There are two types of office workers: those who reply-all by mistake, and those who reply-all to ask everyone to stop replying all.

There are two types of office workers: those who say "let's circle back," and those who never, ever circle back.

There are two types of office workers: those who join on time, and those asking "can everyone see my screen?" for four minutes.

There are two types of office workers: those who end the meeting early, and those who say "while I have you all" at minute 59.

There are two types of office workers: those who set a realistic deadline, and those who said "EOD" at 4:45.

There are two types of office workers: those who take notes, and those who ask "what were the action items?" the second it ends.

There are two types of office workers: those who say "quick question," and those whose quick question is a 25-minute saga.

There are two types of office workers: those who read the whole email, and those who replied to line one and missed the deadline in line three.

There are two types of office workers: those who put it on the calendar, and those who say "I didn't see the invite."

There are two types of office workers: those who use Slack threads, and those who send eleven separate messages, one word each.

There are two types of office workers: those who book a room, and those holding a meeting in the hallway you have to walk through.

There are two types of office workers: those who decline the optional meeting, and those who attend it resentfully.

There are two types of office workers: those who refill the coffee pot, and those who left a thimble of coffee to avoid making more.

There are two types of office workers: those who hit the deadline, and those who discover the deadline the day after.

There are two types of office workers: those who reply "thanks!", and those who reply "thanks!" to "thanks!" forever.

There are two types of office workers: those who put an agenda in the invite, and those whose meeting is a mystery box.

There are two types of office workers: those who schedule across time zones carefully, and those who booked it for someone's 5 a.m.

There are two types of office workers: those who finished the project, and those still "syncing" about it.

There are two types of office workers: those who use the shared drive, and those who emailed "final_v3_REAL_final.docx."

There are two types of office workers: those who say "let's take this offline," and those who never take it offline.

There are two types of office workers: those who did the mandatory training, and those clicking Next without reading since 2014.

There are two types of office workers: those who block focus time, and those whose calendar is one solid block of meetings.

There are two types of office workers: those who keep the meeting to 30 minutes, and those who booked an hour and will use every second.

There are two types of office workers: those who unmute to speak, and those who talk for a minute on mute and start over, defeated.

There are two types of office workers: those who CC the manager strategically, and those who BCC HR and mean it.

There are two types of office workers: those who clear the inbox daily, and those with 19,000 unread and a clear conscience.

There are two types of office workers: those who use Zoom, and those who use Teams, and they will never agree which is worse.

There are two types of office workers: those who set OOO and disconnect, and those answering email from the beach and ruining it for everyone.

There are two types of office workers: those who say "no worries if not," and those who very much have worries.

There are two types of office workers: those who keep standup to standing-up length, and those who turned it into therapy.

There are two types of office workers: those who finished the slide deck, and those building it live during the presentation.

There are two types of office workers: those who book the 1:1, and those who skip it and call it "giving you autonomy."

There are two types of office workers: those who say "ping me," and those who got pinged at 11 p.m. and regret the offer.

There are two types of office workers: those who use the meeting chat for notes, and those posting "good morning everyone" gifs.

There are two types of office workers: those who respect "we're at time," and those who say "I know we're at time, but..."

There are two types of office workers: those who read the room, and those who scheduled "fun" team-building for Friday at 5.

There are two types of office workers: those who say "happy to help," and those who are not.

There are two types of office workers: those who leave when the meeting ends, and those who stay on to "debrief the meeting."

There are two types of office workers: those who answer within the hour, and those whose autoresponder says "twice a day" and means twice a week.

There are two types of office workers: those who say "great question," and those stalling for the answer.

There are two types of office workers: those who escalate calmly, and those who added "URGENT" to a subject line about snacks.

There are two types of office workers: those who finish the agenda, and those who already booked the follow-up to finish the agenda.

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Ishan Karunaratne

Software Systems Architect · Senior Software Engineer · Engineering Leadership

Software systems architect and senior software engineer with more than two decades designing, building, and running production software, Linux systems, and DevOps infrastructure, and lately working AI into the stack. Now a CTO, though what I write here is drawn from the full arc of that work, across architecture, engineering, and operations, not any single job.

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