There is a pun about work “shifts.” “I got fired for putting in extra shifts at work. It’s what you get for working in a keyboard factory” was posted on Twitter on March 24, 2011.
“I was fired from the keyboard factory today. I wasn’t putting in enough shifts” was posted on Reddit—Jokes on October 5, 2017.
Twitter
Sebas
@OhLookBirdies
I got fired for putting in extra shifts at work. It’s what you get for working in a keyboard factory.
3:55 AM - 24 Mar 2011
Twitter
Dj NorX
@DjNorX
The perks of working in a keyboard factory.
Extra shifts.
9:00 AM - 19 Aug 2011
Twitter
Ian
@KipchirchirIan
Why it sucks working in keyboard factory…
Extra Shifts!!
4:48 AM - 20 Aug 2011
Twitter
Mustafa Aziz Khalifa
@mazizkhalifa
The perks of working in a keyboard factory.
Extra shifts.
More control aswell.
5:30 PM - 3 May 2013
Twitter
Brandy Mc Fart
@Snikoggs
I can’t believe they sacked me from the Keyboard Factory after all the shifts that I put in.
3:13 AM - 21 Jan 2014
Reddit—Jokes
I was fired from the keyboard factory today.
submitted October 5, 2017 by RivyGucci
I wasn’t putting in enough shifts.
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.
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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