I’ve started to create a playlist of work-related songs for days I’m feeling cynical at and about work. It’s got some classics like 16 Tons, 9 to 5, and Welcome to the Machine. But also more metaphorical songs like ‘The Snake’ from Shivaree.
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I can’t think of a song for “I like my job and the people I serve and my team, but my managers have all been aliens wearing skin suits pretending to human and that’s pretty soul sucking” so someone please write me one.
Maybe I’ll ask Chat GPT.
pink floyd - welcome to the machine
My music at work by the tragically hip
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-E0KGjJAx8 I want to be a boss by stan ridgeway (of wall of voodoo fame)
SIM - The rumbling https://youtu.be/OBqw818mQ1E?si=Xm_KmtBkjC_oLQ1P
Maybe manager Rob can write God damn login page himself
(Code Monkey - Johnathan Coulton)
Yeah, this. Good choice.
and there’s also Stoned at Work by Shockwire
These were just the first two songs to pop in my head.
Six in the morning don’t want to wake
Sun laying low and the world sleeping late
Hate like the river runs heavy and deep
Oh I wish that they’d sack me and leave me to sleep
Five days from seven the week’s hardly mine
The alarm clock’s gone over to enemy lines
Waste my time working for cowards and creeps
Oh I wish that they’d sack me and leave me to sleep
Rain strikes the window heralds the day
Rain won’t you wash these eight hours away?
Rain feeds the river runs heavy and deep
Oh I wish that they’d sack me and leave me to sleep
Birds at my window sing in the dawn
By the time that I’m home all this day will be gone
Spend my life sowing what others will reap
Oh I wish that they’d sack me and leave me to sleep
Rain strikes the window heralds the day
Rain won’t you wash these eight hours away?
Rain feeds the river runs heavy and deep
Oh I wish that they’d sack me and leave me to sleep
Rain strikes the window heralds the day
Rain won’t you wash these eight hours away?
Rain feeds the river runs heavy and deep
Oh I wish that they’d sack me and leave me to sleep
Rain strikes the window heralds the day
Rain won’t you wash these eight hours away?
Rain feeds the river runs heavy and deep
Oh I wish that they’d sack me and leave me to sleep
Chumbawamba – I wish they’d sack me
it’s been mentioned, but there’s a cover of ‘Take This Job and Shove It’ by Dead Kennedys that’s fun. and more recently, ‘I Don’t Want to Work for Scum anymore’ by the Murder City Devils. just Murder City Devils in general
“Halloween” by Dead Kennedys
