Training New Employee While Remembering Official Rules vs Your Made-Up Ones

Description

A meme showing a glowing orange translucent humanoid figure clutching its head in an office cubicle environment with blue dividers, desks, and computer monitors visible in the background. The figure's brain is visibly illuminated in bright red/pink, indicating intense mental strain. The top text reads: 'Me when I have to train the new employee but I have to remember the real rules not the ones I made up:'. The humor captures the universal workplace experience of senior employees who have developed their own unofficial workflows, shortcuts, and interpretations of company policies over the years, and must now consciously separate their personal 'house rules' from actual documented procedures when onboarding someone new. In a tech context, this resonates with developers who must teach coding standards they don't personally follow, or explain the 'correct' way to do something while their own codebase is full of creative interpretations