Funny 88: The Bored Baker
Oh my god this is so funny. A baker who works for Sainsbury's (a UK supermarket) has been writing haikus about his job dissatisfaction and hiding them inside biscuits. The most famous one is:
Enjoy Your Cookies
Every Bite is a Minute
I'll Never Get Back
And then there is also:
The First Victim Of
Retail Customer Service
Is Sincerity
and:
Taste the difference
I can’t taste the difference
Maybe its my fault
Hahahahahahahhaa.
Possible reasons these are hilarious:
Relatable. Shit jobs make you die inside. Everyone's been there, or is there . Except for the majority of UK cabinet ministers, most of who got their first job after they graduated from Oxbridge university (having previously been educated at Eton), in party politics.
Unexpected. Shit jobs also usually also kill all creative urges, leaving you just enough energy to watch TV, eat comforting foodstuffs, and sleep.
The passive aggression in the first one. 'Enjoy your cookies' followed by 'every bite is a minute I'll never get back' is hilarious. Who can enjoy their cookies when their production has rendered a worker so miserable? But they will enjoy their cookies because cookies are delicious - there is a kind of resentful resignation here as well. However good his haiku is, capitalism will go on.
The one about Taste the Difference is relatable as well. It's been described in the past as a kind of challenge - a command to taste the difference, rather than a statement that the difference in money you pay for the more expensive version is worth it. It's a funny description of internalised oppression as well - instead of protesting that the classy biscuits are no different from the cheap ones, you start to think that the problem is inside yourself.
And 'the first victim of retail customer service is insincerity' is relatable, and funny because it's true.