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.

  • BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    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.

  • homain@lemmy.ml
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    8 months ago

    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

  • chumbalumber@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    8 months ago

    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