That week goes by too fast

This is a 3-panel relatable meme featuring the same bearded man wearing a light blue button-up shirt, showing three different facial expressions corresponding to three stages of the job process. The first panel shows the man looking tired, frustrated, and unhappy, with the text label 'UNEMPLOYED APPLYING TO JOBS' above him. The second panel shows the same man looking extremely happy, excited, and smiling widely, with the label 'THE WEEK BETWEEN ACCEPTING A JOB AND STARTING' above. The third panel returns to the man looking tired, frustrated, and unhappy again, labeled 'STARTING THE JOB' above. The joke plays on the common experience that the short, stress-free period between accepting a job offer and beginning work feels like it passes extremely quickly, contrasting the unpleasant stress of job hunting and starting a new job against the very brief pleasant in-between phase.

This meme was sourced from an RSS feed for the Reddit Meme subreddit, where it was originally posted under the title 'That week goes by too fast'. It uses a widely shared 3-expression reaction photo template of a man showing sad, happy, sad expressions, with custom text captions added via the Imgflip editing platform, evidenced by the imgflip.com watermark at the bottom left of the image, to create a relatable workplace joke that resonates with people going through the job application and onboarding process.