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.
chumbalumber, 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
BonesOfTheMoon, 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.
HubertManne, 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-E0KGjJAx8 I want to be a boss by stan ridgeway (of wall of voodoo fame)
ada, 
Dolly Parton, 9 to 5
HobbitFoot, “I Don’t Want To Be Here Anymore” by Rise Against.
Kolanaki, 
Maybe manager Rob can write God damn login page himself
(Code Monkey - Johnathan Coulton)
LinkOpensChest_wav, 
“Halloween” by Dead Kennedys
Timecircleline, Little Bit Off by Five Finger Death Punch
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