Mondays in the Office Extrusion

Text on the meme

Mondays in the office

What it means

A close-up video shows an industrial machine slowly extruding a long white cylinder while a worker stands nearby. The caption compares the machine struggling into motion with the feeling of barely getting through a Monday at the office. Arthur Rubinstein’s gentle piano performance of Chopin’s Nocturne in E-flat Major makes the mundane mechanical process feel dramatically elegant and melancholic, strengthening the joke.

Sound

♪ Arthur Rubinstein — Nocturnes, Op. 9: No. 2 in E-Flat Major

music / музыка piano / пианино keyboard (musical) / клавишные

Objects

industrial extrusion machine / промышленный экструзионный станок white cylindrical material / белый цилиндрический материал metal die / металлическая фильера black pipe housing / чёрный корпус трубы metal brackets / металлические кронштейны worker’s boots / рабочие ботинки orange work pants / оранжевые рабочие брюки concrete workshop floor / бетонный пол мастерской paint splatters / брызги краски mechanical clamp / механический зажим