A popular proverb is:
“Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime.”
A joke variation was posted on Twitter by Billy Dyer on January 11, 2012:
“Give a man a job, you have an employee. Teach him how to shift blame, you and have a manager.”
Twitter
billy dyer
@TriZooFish
Give a man a job you have an employee . Teach him how to shift blame you and have a manager.
4:03 AM - 11 Jan 2012
Twitter
greg
@GSDecorating
Give a man a job and u have an employee teach him how to shift blame and uv got yourself a manager!
4:39 AM - 11 Jan 2012
Twitter
greyworld
@greyworld
Give a man a job and u have an employee. Teach him how to shift blame and you’ve got yourself a manager! via @GSDecoration
6:02 AM - 11 Jan 2012
Twitter
Kapil Bali
@kapilbali08
”...Give a man a job..and you have an employee…
You teach him how to shift blames…and…you have a manager..!!!”“
7:16 AM - 13 Jan 2012
Twitter
John
@JFD1960
Give a man a job you have an employee. Teach him how to shift blame you have a manager
5:42 PM - 15 Jul 2017
Twitter
John
@JFD1960
Give a man a job you have an employee. Teach him how to shift blame, you have a manager
7:51 PM - 16 Mar 2018
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.
Recent entries:
•“I read old books because I would rather learn from those who built civilization than those who tore it down” (4/18)
•“I study old buildings because I would rather learn from those who built civilization than those who tore it down” (4/18)
•“Due to personal reasons, I’m still going to be fluffy this summer” (4/18)
•“Do not honk at me. My life is worthless. I will kill us both” (bumper sticker) (4/18)
•Entry in progress—BP16 (4/18)
More new entries...
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.
This site is edited by Barry Popik. These are the Cookies and Privacy Policies.