Many people have jobs that keep them depressed. “Don’t cry at home. Cry at work so they have to pay you for it” is a saying.
“Don’t cry at home - cry at work, on company time! Get paid expressing your sorrows!” was posted on X/Twitter by Elisha Hirst on September 11, 2019. “Don’t cry at home, cry at work, make em pay you for it” was posted on X/Twitter by Keegan M Doyle on November 27, 2019. “Don’t cry at home cry at work get paid for your depression” was posted on X/Twitter by Catarina on March 6, 2020.
“Don’t cry at home. Cry at work so they have to pay you for it” was posted on Facebook by Meme Express on November 16, 2021. “Don’t cry at home. Cry at work so they have to pay you for it” was posted on Facebook by Retail Memes on November 17, 2021.
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Elisha Hirst
@elisha_hirst98
Don’t cry at home - cry at work, on company time! Get paid expressing your sorrows!
8:44 AM · Sep 11, 2019
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Keegan M Doyle
@KeeganDoyle
Small resistance for your own power is important. Don’t cry at home, cry at work, make em pay you for it.
9:30 AM · Nov 27, 2019
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Catarina
@1catarina6
Don’t cry at home cry at work get paid for your depression
9:31 AM · Mar 6, 2020
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We, The People.
@jeigh_wabantu
Don’t cry at home…cry at work during the f^@ken clock if they don’t pay you for emotional distress that the job brings
6:10 AM · Oct 31, 2020
Facebook
Meme Express
November 16, 2021 at 2:05 AM ·
Don’t cry at home
Cry at work so they have to pay you for it
X/Twitter
L♡Ve$♥︎Ku𓂀𓁝 D🐝🪩
@Love91SOku
Don’t cry at home
Cry at work so they have to pay you for it
12:11 PM · Nov 16, 2021
Facebook
Retail Memes
November 17, 2021 at 5:19 PM ·
Don’t cry at home
Cry at work so they have to pay you for it
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Kïwï ☼
@ladylotus_eater
Don’t cry at home
Cry at work so they have to pay you for it.
7:16 PM · Nov 17, 2021 from Wheeling, IL
Facebook
Retail Memes
September 3, 2022 at 6:59 AM ·
Don’t cry at home.
Cry at work so they have to pay you for it.
Facebook
Retail Memes
February 23, 2024 at 4:50 PM ·
Saturday Hack:
Why cry on at home? Save your tears for work and get paid to cry.
Facebook
Benedict Wille
March 26, 2024 at 7:20PM ·
Don’t cry at home
Cry at work so that they have to pay you for it
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.
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