Employees often live in fear of when a boss catches them not doing work. “I love when my boss catches me doing work” is a jocular saying of the opposite situation. “Gotta love when the boss catches you doing work!” was cited on Twitter on July 1, 2011. “I love when my boss catches me doing work” was cited on Twitter on June 25, 2012.
Two tweets by Men’s Humor in August 2012 popularized the saying. “#ThatAwesomeMoment when your boss catches you actually doing work” was cited on Twitter on August 15, 2012, and “I love when my boss catches me doing work” was cited on Twitter on August 30, 2012.
Twitter
Blake Holbrook
@blake_holbrook
gotta love when the boss catches you doing work!
9:14 AM - 1 Jul 2011
Twitter
Pam
@shutterbug012
I love when my boss catches me doing work.
3:45 PM - 25 Jun 2012
Twitter
Men’s Humor
@MensHumor
#ThatAwesomeMoment when your boss catches you actually doing work.
12:00 PM - 15 Aug 2012
Funny Status
I get a sense of pride and achievement when my boss…
August 15, 2012
I get a sense of pride and achievement when my boss catches me actually doing work.
Twitter
Men’s Humor
@MensHumor
I love when my boss catches me doing work.
9:20 AM - 30 Aug 2012
Funny Status
I love when my boss catches me doing work.
August 30, 2012
Twitter
Comedy Central
@ComedyCentralKE
I love when my boss catches me
actually doing work.
2:22 PM - 6 Nov 2012
Facebook
WMMC Radio 105.9 FM
April 20, 2013 ·
I get a sense of pride and achievement when my boss catches me actually doing work.
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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