“I lost my job making stencils. They said I wasn’t cut out for it. #repundancy” is a jocular work saying that was posted on Twitter by Wobin on May 24, 2011. “Got sacked from my job as a stencil maker apparently I ‘just wasn’t cut out for it’” was posted on Twitter by Gary Cordery on February 3, 2014.
“I got fired from my job as a stencil maker. I guess it just wasn’t cut out for me” was posted on Reddit—Jokes on September 28, 2018.
Twitter
Wobin
@WobH
I lost my job making stencils. They said I wasn’t cut out for it. #repundancy
3:49 PM - 24 May 2011
Twitter
#RabbieTheRoBot.
@RabMacPhoto
Got offered a job as a stencil-maker but I wasnt cut out for it…#punny
8:04 PM - 7 Feb 2012
Twitter
Gary Cordery
@gaz_cordery
Got sacked from my job as a stencil maker apparently I ‘just wasn’t cut out for it’ #SackPun @jellypom @Charisma_Effect
12:37 PM - 3 Feb 2014
Twitter
ifiwasaballoon
@GI1970
I used to be a stencil maker but I wasn’t cut out for it. #1Pun
1:42 AM - 12 Mar 2014
Twitter
GaReTH jOnEs
@garethjones934
Going to university to train to be a stencil maker…. I’m really not cut out for this
7:22 PM - 26 Mar 2017
Reddit—Jokes
I got fired from my job as a stencil maker.
submitted September 28, 2018 by Oktayey
I guess it just wasn’t cut out for me.
COMMENTS
idkimdrunk
His coworkers say he was gone without a trace
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