"I don’t work here. I’m a consultant” is a jocular saying that has been printed on many gift items, such as T-shirts, hats and coffee mugs. The saying has been cited in print since at least 1999 and is of unknown authorship.
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19. I don’t work here. I’m a consultant.
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94. I don’t work here. I’m only a consultant.
Google Books
Pastor Tim’s Cleanlaugh Collection
Featuring the Internet’s Funnies Clean Humor
By Tim Davis
Victoria, BC: Trafford Publishing
2001
Pg. 150:
I don’t work here. I’m a consultant.
Google Books
Aren’t You Sorry You Asked: . . . for My Opinion
By Albert L. Maslar, Jr.
Bloomington, IN: AuthorHouse
2006
Pg. 308:
I don’t work here. I’m a consultant.
Google Books
The Biggest Joke Book Ever
By Jack Jacoby
Victoria, BC: Trafford Publishing
2012
Pg. 385:
I don’t work here. I’m a consultant.
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@RishenErriah
25 phrases you wish you could say at work more often! My favourite is, “I’m a consultant, I don’t work here!”
5:54 AM - 1 Oct 2013
Google Books
The Snark Bible:
A Reference Guide to Verbal Sparring, Comebacks, Irony, Insults, and So Much More
Edited by Lawrence Dorfman
New York, NY: Skyhorse Publishing
2014
Pg. ?:
I don’t work here. I’m a consultant.
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, 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.
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