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A Week Into My New Job and I Already Got a Raise!

A two-panel meme. Left panel: A young person named Dylan wearing an orange Home Depot apron takes a selfie in a Home Depot store, smiling and making a finger gun gesture, with another older person in a Home Depot apron giving a thumbs up behind them. Top text reads: 'A week into my new job and I already got myself a raise!'. Right panel: The same young person lies shirtless in bed, smiling, with an older man (likely his father) in the background removing his shirt, exposing his back. The humor stems from a pun on 'raise'—initially implying a salary increase, but the second panel reveals the man 'raising' (lifting) his shirt.
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A week into my new job and I already got myself a raise!

Overview

A two-panel meme. Left panel: A young person named Dylan wearing an orange Home Depot apron takes a selfie in a Home Depot store, smiling and making a finger gun gesture, with another older person in a Home Depot apron giving a thumbs up behind them. Top text reads: 'A week into my new job and I already got myself a raise!'. Right panel: The same young person lies shirtless in bed, smiling, with an older man (likely his father) in the background removing his shirt, exposing his back. The humor stems from a pun on 'raise'—initially implying a salary increase, but the second panel reveals the man 'raising' (lifting) his shirt.

Origin notes

The meme is a user-created collage originally posted on Reddit (as indicated by the source 'Reddit:Meme'). It combines two real photos: one taken in a Home Depot store featuring the young person and a coworker, and another taken in a bedroom with the young person and an older man. The editing method likely involved basic photo collage software to merge the two images into a single meme format.

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