Good Guy Boss

Good Guy Boss

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Updated Sep 15, 2014 at 05:27AM EDT by ­­­Alex Mercer.

Added Mar 27, 2013 at 12:54PM EDT by Don.

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About

Good Guy Boss is an advice animal image macro series featuring a stock photograph of a middle-aged businessman making a thumbs-up hand gesture. Similar to its precursor Good Guy Greg, the captions often depict the character as a thoughtful, considerate and generous manager.

Origin

The stock photo of the thumbs-up signing businessman was originally hosted on the Microsoft Office[5] image database (shown below, left). On March 27th, 2012, Redditor Bournefox submitted an image macro based on the stock photo to the /r/AdviceAnimals[2] subreddit (shown below, right). Prior to being archived, the post received over 14,000 up votes and 210 comments.


WALKS BYAND CATCHES ME ONREDDIT "MAKE A MEME OUT OF ME AND WE'LL ACT LIKE THIS NEVER HAPPENED."

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On the following day, the “Good Guy Boss” Quickmeme[1] page was created, accumulating 640 submissions over the span of a year. Also on March 28th, 2013, Redditor jlmawp submitted an image macro[6] describing a boss encouraging his employee to check out a post on Reddit (shown below). The post gained more than 7,200 up votes and 95 comments prior to being archived.


WALKS BY ANDSEESME WORKING DILIGENTLY "HEY,GOTO REDDIT REAL QUICK..." quickmeme.com

On February 1st, 2013, Redditor Shishakli submitted an image macro praising bosses who provide adequate wages to /r/AdviceAnimals[3] (shown below, left), which received upwards of 9,400 up votes and 300 comments within two months. On February 27th, Redditor gkden submitted an image macro retelling the way the boss reacted to his resignation (shown below, right). In the next month, the post received over of 31,000 up votes and 560 comments.


PAYS YOUA DECENTWAGE SO YOU DON'T NEED HIS F------ CHARITY quickmeme.com "ON A PERSONAL LEVEL,UM REALLY DISAPPOINTED TO SEE YOUGO "BUT ONA PROFESSIONAL LEVEL YOU'RE MAKING A GREAT DECISION." quickmeme.com

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SAYS YOUCANCOMEIN WHENEVER YOUWANT AS LONGAS YOU GET THE WORK DONE quickmeme.com IFVOU HAVETO WORK ONSATURDAY YOU CAN TAKE OFF MONDAY OR GET OVERTIME quickmeme.com OF BARELY OuT COLLEGES HERES AJOB ANYWAY quickmeme.com HAS SEVERAL BOSSES HIMSELF PUTS HIMSELF ON THE LINE FOR HIS PEOPLE quickmeme.com VOLUNTARILY TAKES A HUGE PAY CUT SOHEDOESNT HAVE TO LAY WORKERS OFF quickmeme.com NOTICESTHAT VOUIRE DEPRESSED GIVES YOUTEN MILLION DOLLARS AND LET'S YOU F--- HIS WIFE quickmeme.com

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