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Business Cat

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Black cat wearing a necktie: Happy birthday / Have a mice day / Best fishes — Happy birthday / Have a mice day / Best fishes
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Happy birthday / Have a mice day / Best fishes
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Black cat wearing a necktie: The red dot seems to be attracted to PowerPoint / I will make a presentation to lure it in — The red dot seems to be attracted to PowerPoint / I will make a presentation to lure it in
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The red dot seems to be attracted to PowerPoint / I will make a presentation to lure it in
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Black cat wearing a necktie: It's time for your / purrformance review — It's time for your / purrformance review
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It's time for your / purrformance review
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2000 Upvotes?!
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2000 UPVOTES?! / THIS WILL LOOK GREAT ON MY RESUME
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You Know When I’M Down To Just My Socks
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YOU KNOW WHEN I’M DOWN TO JUST MY SOCKS / WHAT TIME IT IS
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Old memes are great but the trend will die if they're all memes about old memes ...
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WE NEED TO DISCUSS YOUR PERFORMANCE AS OF LATE / MY FOOD BOWL WAS FILLED AN INSUFFICIENT NUMBER OF TIMES EACH DAY
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Business Cat Resigns
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I hereby Tender Vittles / My Resignation
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IT ALL MAKES SENSE NOW
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MY GOD.... / IT ALL MAKES SENSE NOW
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Turn in or DIE
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Threatening language in native caption.
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TURN IN PROJECT SOON / OR YOU WILL SUFFER THE SAME FATE AS DINKIE THE TOY BEAR
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I Will Give You Two Rats..Dead Or Alive.
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I will give you two rats..dead or alive. / For 5 kilos of cat nipp.. take it or leave it,...
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Business Cat: “You better have those reports done by lunch / Lays across your keyboard.” — The deadline is under the manager
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The boss demands productivity, then physically prevents it. The lower line is not another command: it is a stage direction, and the keyboard is now occupied.
Underlying photograph depicts Emilio, Daniel Vecchitto’s cat
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Business Cat: “New office equipment has arrived / If anyone needs me, I’ll be in one of these boxes.” — The packaging is the perk
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The serious announcement promises better tools. The bottom line reveals that the manager is interested in the cardboard, not whatever expensive thing was delivered inside it.
Underlying photograph depicts Emilio, Daniel Vecchitto’s cat
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Business Cat: “Need you to stay late tonight / We really have to catch that red dot.” — Overtime has a very small moving target
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An urgent late-night assignment sounds important until the actual objective arrives. Ordinary laser-pointer play has been promoted to a company-wide emergency.
Underlying photograph depicts Emilio, Daniel Vecchitto’s cat
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About & sources

A tie-wearing cat acts like an office boss, until the caption turns an ordinary management request into unmistakably feline behavior.

Date

Know Your Meme traces the tie-wearing cat photograph to a January 1, 2011 Something Awful post, followed by Reddit and image-macro adaptations.

History

Know Your Meme identifies the photographed cat as Emilio and reports that the original photograph appeared on January 1, 2011, with a Reddit repost and captioned adaptation three days later. The selected year covers that photograph-to-macro emergence, not the earlier unrelated Japanese video also called Business Cat. The preview is one captioned example (canceling a meeting to watch a bird), not the untouched source photograph or a blank reusable template. Attribution and availability do not establish permission for public reuse; this remains a private research preview.

Know Your Meme — Business Cat (origin and spread)

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