# I just quit my job. Wheee!
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-quit-my-job-wheee/301545
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [April 28, 2005, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-quit-my-job-wheee/301545 "2005-04-28T13:55:01Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Marlitharn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marlitharn)
#### Post date: [April 28, 2005, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-quit-my-job-wheee/301545/1 "2005-04-28T13:55:01Z")
So, after 2 months of them blowing smoke up my ass, after 2 months of high drama from one of the other supervisors and the rest of her hive brain because I (gasp!) _dared to suggest a schedule change_ that everyone but the aforementioned supe and her yes-wenches were wildly enthusiastic about, after 2 months of, “Well, maybe…but what if this happens?” and then answering that question only to have THE EXACT SAME OBJECTION RAISED THE NEXT DAY - hello, people do you see my lips moving? - , after 2 months of slowly coming to realize that our boss isn’t going to do anything unless the supe (who has to carry her prescription meds around in a lunch box and who is going to get someone killed one of these days) and her sheeple (supe’s daughter and daughter’s best friend, both of whom have been fired at least once before) want to do it…
I told them to shove it.
_BORN FREE-EEEE, AS FREE AS THE WIND BLOWS…_
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### Author:  [@Marlitharn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marlitharn)
#### Post date: [April 28, 2005, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-quit-my-job-wheee/301545/2 "2005-04-28T13:56:09Z")
I put this in the Pit because I really thought I’d swear more. Oh, well.
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### Author:  [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)
#### Post date: [April 28, 2005, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-quit-my-job-wheee/301545/3 "2005-04-28T13:56:52Z")
Best of luck to you in finding a new position.
(I am jealous as hell that you are free!)
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### Author:  [@Marlitharn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marlitharn)
#### Post date: [April 28, 2005, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-quit-my-job-wheee/301545/4 "2005-04-28T15:29:41Z")
Thanks. To tell the truth I’m not real worried. Tomorrow’s payday; we get paid monthly. I have almost a month’s worth of comp pay coming to me along with almost a month’s worth of vacation. I’ll have to use part of it to buy some kind of car (I’ve been relying on co-workers for rides to work) but we should still be good until the end of June. And I don’t anticipate having much trouble finding another job; certified EMDs and 911 dispatchers are few and far between around here. So I’m going to spend this weekend getting wasted and singing “TAKE THIS JOB AND SHOVE IT!” off-key at the top of my lungs, and then Monday I’ll start job-shopping.
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### Author:  [@MysteryFellow63427](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MysteryFellow63427)
#### Post date: [April 28, 2005, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-quit-my-job-wheee/301545/5 "2005-04-28T17:38:02Z")
Awesome, **Marlitharn**!
Here’s a mix CD for your weekend bender:
I’m Free - _The Who_
Freedom - _Aretha Franklin_
Free At Last - _Al Green_
Cry Freedom - _Dave Matthews Band_
Stone Free - _Jimi Hendrix_
Freedom Train - _Lenny Kravitz_
Free - _Chicago_
Free - _Cat Power_
Free Bird - _Lynrd Skynrd_
(Ok that last one was a stretch. I’m running out of ideas here. Someone help me out.)
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### Author:  [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)
#### Post date: [April 28, 2005, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-quit-my-job-wheee/301545/6 "2005-04-28T17:50:20Z")
Good for you! Sometimes quitting a pain in the ass job can be a wonderful experience. Enjoy!
(Let’s see, how about “Acrobat” {which prominently features the line Don’t Let the Bastards Grind You Down} by U2?)
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### Author:  [@Cheez\_Whia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheez_Whia)
#### Post date: [April 28, 2005, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-quit-my-job-wheee/301545/7 "2005-04-28T17:51:09Z")
Philadelphia Freedom-_Elton John_ maybe also a stretch. 😃
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### Author:  [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)
#### Post date: [April 28, 2005, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-quit-my-job-wheee/301545/8 "2005-04-28T18:41:51Z")
Good luck in your new adventure. I hope you enjoy your new position better than you seem to have your old.
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### Author:  [@JohnM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnM)
#### Post date: [April 28, 2005, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-quit-my-job-wheee/301545/9 "2005-04-28T20:18:25Z")
For your “free at last” mix, might I recommend Todd Rundgren’s _Bang on the Drum All Day_? The songs starts like this:
> [@](#):
>
> I don’t want to work
> I want to bang on the drum all day
For a bit of country flavor, there’s Johnny Paycheck’s _Take this Job and Shove It_.
That’s all for now.
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### Author:  [@JohnM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnM)
#### Post date: [April 28, 2005, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-quit-my-job-wheee/301545/10 "2005-04-28T20:19:33Z")
And of course you already mentioned TTJASI; I was just providing the singer’s name. Yeah, that’s the ticket. Anyway, good luck!
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### Author:  [@Queen\_Bruin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Bruin)
#### Post date: [April 28, 2005, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-quit-my-job-wheee/301545/11 "2005-04-28T20:24:28Z")
If you aren’t into country, The Dead Kennedys did _Take This Job and Shove It_ as well. Congratulations, and here’s hoping you get a position at a good place.
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### Author:  [@Marlitharn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marlitharn)
#### Post date: [April 28, 2005, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-quit-my-job-wheee/301545/12 "2005-04-28T21:42:14Z")
Wheeeeee!
Ya know what’s funny? I was talking to my best friend, who also works down there, and ya know what schedule they’re going to have to adopt to cover my absence? Guess. Go on, guess. You’ll never guess in a million years.
_They’re adopting the schedule I’ve been promoting for 2 months!_
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
I’ve been bouncing around the house all day singing “Born Free.” I didn’t realize how much that place had been getting me down until I experienced the incredible orgasmic RUSH of quitting it! Squeeee!
_rips shirt off and runs out of thread_
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### Author:  [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)
#### Post date: [April 28, 2005, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-quit-my-job-wheee/301545/13 "2005-04-28T21:47:04Z")
> [@Marlitharn](#):
>
> _rips shirt off and runs out of thread_
That’s the sort of spirit I love to see in this place!
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### Author:  [@voltaire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voltaire)
#### Post date: [April 28, 2005, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-quit-my-job-wheee/301545/14 "2005-04-28T23:06:09Z")
Chances are good that I’m going to have one of these threads of my own soon, shitty job-market be damned.
Good luck!
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### Author:  [@Syntropy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Syntropy)
#### Post date: [April 28, 2005, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-quit-my-job-wheee/301545/15 "2005-04-28T23:10:23Z")
Want a job?
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### Author:  [@Nutty\_Bunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nutty_Bunny)
#### Post date: [April 28, 2005, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-quit-my-job-wheee/301545/16 "2005-04-28T23:22:42Z")
**Marlitharn** , you are my hero. I’ve been miserable for awhile and don’t have the balls to quit right now.
> [@Maureen](#):
>
> Want a job?
Where you [work](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=313669)?! Fuck no!
😃
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### Author:  [@Marlitharn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marlitharn)
#### Post date: [April 29, 2005, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-quit-my-job-wheee/301545/17 "2005-04-29T00:02:51Z")
> [@Maureen](#):
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> Want a job?
From your description of Joan, I think we were already working at the same place.
;j 😃🆒🙂
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### Author:  [@Blalron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blalron)
#### Post date: [April 29, 2005, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-quit-my-job-wheee/301545/18 "2005-04-29T00:38:47Z")
> [@neuroman](#):
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> (Ok that last one was a stretch. I’m running out of ideas here. Someone help me out.)
Take This Job And Shove It-- _David Allan Coe_
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### Author:  [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)
#### Post date: [April 29, 2005, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-quit-my-job-wheee/301545/19 "2005-04-29T04:27:01Z")
“Free as a Bird”-the Beatles (from the _Anthology_).
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### Author:  [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)
#### Post date: [April 29, 2005, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-quit-my-job-wheee/301545/20 "2005-04-29T15:09:28Z")
“Free-falling” by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers.
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