“I can’t believe I got fired from the calendar factory. All I did was take a day off” went viral on Twitter on November 19, 2010. The one-liner has been included on many jokes websites.
“I got fired from my job at the clock factory today. After all those extra hours I put in!” is a similar joke.
Twitter
Rob Skinner
@CheekyRob
I can’t believe I got fired from the calendar factory. All I did was take a day off.
11:23 AM - 19 Nov 2010
Twitter
Thuto Bokisi
@Thuto_xBox_LFC
Imagine working at a Calendar factory , you’d get fired for taking a day off .
12:40 PM - 19 Nov 2010
Twitter
Blake Carrey
@ABCarrey
I can’t believe I got fired from the calendar factory. All I did was take a day off. #gutted
7:45 PM - 19 Nov 2010
reddit
I can’t believe I got fired from the calendar factory. (self.Jokes)
submitted March 17, 2015 by Juggernaught27
All I did was take a day off
Facebook
Robbie the Black Waffle Kitteh
July 26, 2015·
“I got fired from the calendar factory.”
“why?”
“I took a day off.”
Google Books
The Mental Circus:
Quotes, Notes and Art
By Ronnie G. Shaeffer
Outskirts Press, Inc. (outskirtspress.com)
2016
Pg. 67:
I can’t believe that I got fired from my job at the calendar factory. All I did was take a day off.
Above, a 1934 plaque from the Big Apple Night Club at West 135th Street and Seventh Avenue in Harlem. Discarded as trash in 2006. Now a Popeyes fast food restaurant on Google Maps.
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Above, Big Apple Corner at 54th Street and Broadway in Manhattan. Google Maps. Stolen and missing, 2021-2024.
Above, John J. Fitz Gerald, from the Aug. 15, 1931, Binghamton (NY) Press, pg. 14.
Listen to Robert Emmerich introduce "The Big Apple," a hit song from 1937. Music written by Bob and performed by Tommy Dorsey's Clambake Seven with Bob on piano. Lyrics written by Buddy Bernier and sung by Edythe Wright. Audio provided by Dorothy Emmerich.
Also listen to a 1937 "The Big Apple" song by Ozzie Nelson and his Orchestra. See a 1929 photo of John J. Fitz Gerald and a 1931 photo of John J. Fitz Gerald.
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