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Awkwardly listening to coworkers praise the employee you replaced

This meme features a solid black background. At the top, white sans-serif text reads 'Listening to coworkers talk about how great the person you replaced was.' Below the text is a widely used 3D yellow round emoji face with wide, staring eyes and a strained, forced polite closed-mouth smile. The meme humorously captures the relatable, awkward, uncomfortable feeling of being a new employee who has to politely listen to their colleagues gush about how good the former employee in their role was, while internally feeling awkward or discouraged by the comparison.
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Listening to coworkers talk about how great the person you replaced was.

Overview

This meme features a solid black background. At the top, white sans-serif text reads 'Listening to coworkers talk about how great the person you replaced was.' Below the text is a widely used 3D yellow round emoji face with wide, staring eyes and a strained, forced polite closed-mouth smile. The meme humorously captures the relatable, awkward, uncomfortable feeling of being a new employee who has to politely listen to their colleagues gush about how good the former employee in their role was, while internally feeling awkward or discouraged by the comparison.

Origin notes

This meme was sourced from an RSS feed of the Reddit Meme subreddit, where it was posted with the original title 'It’s been almost a year.' It uses the popular 'uncomfortable forced smile 3D emoji' asset that is commonly circulated online in relatable memes to express suppressed awkwardness or discomfort in social or professional situations.

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