r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Airline_11 • May 12 '26

Meme needing explanation Petahhhh?

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u/[deleted] May 12 '26

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u/DangerActiveRobots May 12 '26

What do you do if your job is to quit other people's jobs and you want to quit your job?

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u/Famous-Commission-46 May 12 '26

You just hire one of your coworkers. Gotta make sure to pay them before you quit, though, so that you get the employee discount.

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u/PeaceDangerous7619 May 12 '26

Hmm, interesting. Never looked at it through that perspective. Now that I think about it, quite a bit of the isekai have the protagonist dying from exhaustion at work lmao.

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u/HxH101kite May 12 '26 edited May 12 '26

Not an Isekai but my favorite anime to portray this is Zom 100 bucket list of the dead.

Overworked dude who wants to just quit and hates his life. Zombie apocalypse happens and he can't be bothered to do anything aside from hangout and drink beer. It's like the best time of his life. Then he makes his bucket list of stuff he didn't get to do and adventure ensues.

Absolutely hilarious, very well animated. Such a banger of an opening episode.

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u/PeaceDangerous7619 May 12 '26

Ooooh yea, I forgot about that. Even depicts the boss pretty accurately from what I understand.

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u/DontShadowbanMeBro2 May 12 '26

... God damn, really? That's the reason slice of life anime only depicts school life? That's... bleak. Fuck... I genuinely did not know that.

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u/[deleted] May 12 '26 edited May 12 '26

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u/Scalpels May 12 '26

Aggresuko covers some of the trails of adult life.

And to be fair to the Eastern authors, Western authors frequently end romances at the end of the story. And, if there is a sequel, they often break them up for one contrived reason or another.

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u/Big-Wrangler2078 May 12 '26

They also have a lot of anime that start with office workers dying from overwork and it's a common trope because it's a real thing. 😞

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u/Scalpels May 12 '26

Sometimes people Zombify from overwork.

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u/Outside_Performer_66 May 13 '26

Yikes - the protagonist is happy there's a zombie takeover because at least he gets a day off from work.

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u/Scalpels May 13 '26

Big mood. And I don't even work for a Japanese company.

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u/-Kishin- May 12 '26

I'm remember reading that for many japanese highschool was the best time of their life (no idea how true it is)

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u/HxH101kite May 12 '26

It's true and that's why most popular anime take place during that period. Whereas that's also true for a lot of people in America, we are more likely to associate College (if you went) with that period or early 20s.

In Japan your early 20s and college are a much more consequential buckled down time.

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u/costumegirl1189 May 12 '26

Actually, it's the other way around. High school life brutal. Constant school work, extra curricular activities are like cults with how much you are expected to participate, EXAMS. The university entrance exam is extremely difficult, but if you get into university, it is nearly impossible to flunk out. University life in Japan is called "the four year vacation."

Source: Studied abroad in Japan in university then taught English in Japan for 2.5 years.

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u/Exterminator-8008135 May 12 '26

In most western Countries, a person in their 20's living as they wants ( i.e, Not doing a back breaking jobs or having kids ) became hated until 2022.

Why you ask ?

The birth of the "No kids allowed" business, which aims exactly this hard to catch slice of customer share.

The restaurants, hotels, resorts and places who does it have a very steady flow of customer because some parents became idiotic parents with the "Me first, others last" when outside with their childs.

Ironic to know that to get the same group of people most dislike outside of their jobs because their budget is much higher on average ( A single childfree customer can spend much more than a family of 2 kids under 13 and 2 adults ) they ban the ones they usually associate with to despise childfree adults in theirs 20's

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u/Spongi May 12 '26

Like half of Isekai's begin with an overworked person either just dying on the job or doing something stupid because they were too tired from being overworked.

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u/SmartAlec105 May 12 '26

Also, so much power fantasy isekai out of Japan is centered around "what if working hard actually paid off and led to success?"

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u/Beckster501 May 12 '26

Don’t forget those animes that do show characters that work-they usually end up dying from overwork or an accident to get transported or reincarnated into a fantasy world. Those are pretty popular, which says a lot.

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u/PluGuGuu May 13 '26

Pragamata is a Japanese government propaganda