About r/NotMyJob
Community guide
r/NotMyJob (#949, about 1.2 million) collects examples of people pointedly not doing the job in front of them—workplace absurdity—kept civil and on-format despite a thin catalogue description.
What belongs
Not-my-job fails and shrugs (light samples). Rules: suitable to the concept; avoid reposts; be civil.
Versus MaliciousCompliance
MaliciousCompliance is weaponised rule-following. NotMyJob is refusal/neglect of the obvious task.
Practical pointers
Keep comments civil; skip obvious reposts that already circulated recently.
SubMouse Editorial
It sits just behind r/raisedbynarcissists (#948) and ahead of r/dogpictures (#950) in our ranking.
What sets r/NotMyJob apart
Relative to its huge audience, posting is calm — around 0.5 new posts a day per million members, which puts it in the quietest fifth of the Top 100. A good post has less competition here. Growth has more or less levelled off (0.00% since Oct 29, 2026), which is common for very mature communities.
Subscriber growth
Between Oct 29, 2026 and Nov 2, 2026, r/NotMyJob stayed flat from 1,118,128 to 1,118,128 subscribers. The chart uses our weekly snapshots (2 so far), so it gets longer every week.
Activity and best time to post
r/NotMyJob gets about 0.6 new posts a day. The public archive holds 71,533 posts and 585,957 comments in total, about 8.2 comments per post.
Rules of r/NotMyJob
The moderators of r/NotMyJob list 3 rules. In short:
- Post must be suitable to the subreddit
- Avoid reposts
- Be civil
How to join
Open reddit.com/r/NotMyJob and press “Join”. Read the community rules in the sidebar before you post: every subreddit is run by its own volunteer moderators.
Frequently asked questions
How big is r/NotMyJob?
r/NotMyJob has 1,118,128 subscribers (Nov 2, 2026), which makes it the #949 safe-for-work subreddit in the SubMouse ranking.
Is r/NotMyJob still active?
Moderately: r/NotMyJob gets about 0.6 new posts a day (average of the last four weeks). Over its lifetime the archive counts 71,533 posts and 585,957 comments.
What kind of posts are on r/NotMyJob?
r/NotMyJob is a large Reddit community. Recent post titles often mention boss.
Is r/NotMyJob SFW?
Yes. Reddit does not mark r/NotMyJob as an 18+ (NSFW) community. SubMouse lists safe-for-work subreddits only.
What are the rules of r/NotMyJob?
Join the community on Reddit first, then use “Create post”. r/NotMyJob accepts link and media posts (no plain text posts), with images, videos and galleries enabled. It has 3 posted rules, starting with: “Post must be suitable to the subreddit”; “Avoid reposts”; “Be civil”. Moderators remove posts that break the rules, so read them in the sidebar before posting.
What subreddits are similar to r/NotMyJob?
Communities with similar topics include r/oldpeoplefacebook (1.2M), r/financialindependence (2.5M), r/MaliciousCompliance (4.4M), r/Bossfight (1.5M) and r/technews (1.1M).
Stats from public data (data updated Nov 2, 2026; activity, rules and archive totals via the Arctic Shift archive, Nov 6, 2026). Point and comment counts are archive snapshots and can be lower than on Reddit today. SubMouse is an independent directory and is not affiliated with Reddit or the moderators of r/NotMyJob.