“This new generation does not like WORKING. You could give these MFs a job SLEEPING and they’ll WAKE UP and QUIT” was printed in an image and posted on Facebook by Dino Shines on February 19, 2021. It is not known who created the image.
“You could give them a job laying down and they’ll get up and quit” is a related saying.
Facebook
Dino Shines
February 19, 2021 at 8:02 PM ·
This new generation
does not like
WORKING.
You could give these
MFs a job SLEEPING
and they’ll WAKE UP
and QUIT.
Facebook
Valeta M. Ford
February 23, 2021 at 12:33 PM ·
This new generation
does not like
WORKING.
You could give these
MFs a job SLEEPING
and they’ll WAKE UP
and QUIT.
Facebook
Earline Williams
March 4, 2021 at 3:32 PM ·
Beautiful story…...... especially with today’s generation…... Give them a job sleeping and they will wake up and quit….....ijs
Facebook
Anthony Silk Mayfield
March 17, 2021 at 2:53 PM ·
The majority of this new generation does not like working(hustling life). You could give them a job SLEEPING and they’ll wake up and quit…
Facebook
Crazy World
March 18, 2021 at 5:45 PM ·
This new generation
does not like
WORKING.
You could give these
MFs a job SLEEPING
and they’ll WAKE UP
and QUIT.
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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