# Songs to quit your job by **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 1, 2003, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-to-quit-your-job-by/192339 "2003-08-01T12:57:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2003, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-to-quit-your-job-by/192339/21 "2003-08-01T18:46:12Z")
> [@](#): > > I ain’t gonna work here no more > I ain’t gonna work here no more > A million miles away from here > And I ain’t gonna work here no more **David Byrne** from (I believe) _Uh Oh_ ---
**Author:** ![saramamalana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/74df32/32.png) [@saramamalana](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saramamalana)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2003, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-to-quit-your-job-by/192339/22 "2003-08-01T18:56:31Z")
two years later you’re a star who’d have thought we’d get this far but i’d give it all away if i could see you on that day again when you quit work threw your coffee at the manager jerk saying “close your eyes, i got a surprise a house in the hills and car that drives by” _“misunderstood,” better than ezra_ ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Death](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecccb3/32.png) [@Evil\_Death](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Death)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2003, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-to-quit-your-job-by/192339/23 "2003-08-01T19:03:18Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by LurkMeister \* > \*\*It’s not a song, but I’ve been giving serious consideration to standing in the plaza outside my office when I walk out of the buiding for the last time and shouting, “Free at last, free at last. Thank God Almighty, I’m free at last!” > > Dropping my pants and mooning the building, however, is running a close second. \*\* Why choose, when you can have both? For myself, I’d favour playing _I Want The Drugs_ by the Supersuckers at high volume, for the sheer aural violence factor: “Would you say that your songs are about liquor, women, drugs and killing for the most part?” “Yup.” ---
**Author:** ![Hobie\_the\_One](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e99b99/32.png) [@Hobie\_the\_One](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hobie_the_One)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2003, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-to-quit-your-job-by/192339/24 "2003-08-01T19:25:43Z")
I was always partial to “I’m free” by the Who from _Tommy_ ---
**Author:** ![widdershins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f0a364/32.png) [@widdershins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/widdershins)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2003, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-to-quit-your-job-by/192339/25 "2003-08-01T19:49:07Z")
“The Contenders” and “Got To Be Free” - by The Kinks _Got to be free to say what I want Make what I want and play what I want I’ve got to be proud and stand up straight And let people see I ain’t nobody’s slave_ It’s more about raging against people paying lip-service to race issues, but the strident attitude of the lyrics of “You Haven’t Done Nothin’” by Stevie Wonder could fit any state of dissatifaction. Besides it’s too funky to leave out. _It’s not to cool to be ridiculed But you brought this upon yourself The world is tired of pacifiers We want the truth and nothing else…yeah_ ---
**Author:** ![I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/i_love_me_vol.i/32/521_2.png) [@I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_Love_Me_Vol.I)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2003, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-to-quit-your-job-by/192339/26 "2003-08-01T19:58:02Z")
Or how 'bout “Out Of The Business” by the Tubes? _All right, 'bout time, Stuffed shirts where the sun don’t shine, Late nights, long days, I don’t need the white collar race. Who wants a gray flannel suit? I’ll throw in a tie, Or some italian boots? it’s all right in style. I’ve had it up to here, with three button whores. I don’t regret that I’m Walking out the door._ ---
**Author:** ![Dumbguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/2bfe46/32.png) [@Dumbguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dumbguy)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2003, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-to-quit-your-job-by/192339/27 "2003-08-01T21:19:55Z")
A friend of mine wrote a song called, “Shittin’ on Company Time”. It’s not really about quitting though. It’s more about not working while at work. ---
**Author:** ![Beadalin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@Beadalin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beadalin)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2003, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-to-quit-your-job-by/192339/28 "2003-08-01T21:33:39Z")
If you don’t have a new job lined up, how about the Kink’s _Low Budget_? Circumstance has forced my hand To be a cut price person in a low budget land Times are hard but we’ll all survive I just got to learn to economize I’m on a low budget I’m on a low budget ---
**Author:** ![TeaRoses](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c37758/32.png) [@TeaRoses](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TeaRoses)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2003, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-to-quit-your-job-by/192339/29 "2003-08-01T21:34:00Z")
My friend wrote a song about working at McDonalds called “Mindless Tedium.” Again, those are the entire lyrics. ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2003, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-to-quit-your-job-by/192339/30 "2003-08-01T22:19:50Z")
Dire Straits, _Money for Nothing_ And a song I don’t like, but which is irresistably appropriate: _Nine to Five_, by Dolly Parton. “Workin’ nine to five Ain’t no way to make a livin’.” ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2003, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-to-quit-your-job-by/192339/31 "2003-08-01T23:04:48Z")
My Windows shutdown sound is the theme from _Shaft_, nice and loud. It’s still playing while I’ve already left the building. 🙂 A good quitting song: Fatboy Slim’s _On the Floor at the Boutique"_: “I never worked a day in my life. I just laid back and let the big beat lead me.” ---
**Author:** ![jackelope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@jackelope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackelope)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2003, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-to-quit-your-job-by/192339/32 "2003-08-02T01:49:23Z")
Jack Logan, _Aloha-Ha_ (played in Hawaiian style): > [@](#): > > He’s so tired of the TV shows > He always knows how they end > Wants to go where warm breezes blow > And the trees don’t break, they just bend > So he stole 250 grand > On an insurance scam he devised > > Before he boards the airplane > Stops to blow a kiss > To the life that he’s leaving > To the life that he knows he won’t miss Well, it’s not really about quitting a job, though there is a line about “eventually his boss will stop calling.” ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2003, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-to-quit-your-job-by/192339/33 "2003-08-02T03:00:09Z")
I once quit a job where my publisher was nothing but trouble by reciting the bridge to Mary Pranksters _Blue Skies Over Dundalk_. “I never meant to hurt you mi diablo mu amigo But I’ve built up so much character I have an alter ego And I have to make a clean break and I have to do it quick 'Cause the pain you give me babe would make Cal Ripken call in sick” No shit. I did it. ---
**Author:** ![SnoopyFan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d07c76/32.png) [@SnoopyFan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SnoopyFan)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2003, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-to-quit-your-job-by/192339/34 "2003-08-02T06:27:00Z")
- I can see clearly now The rain has gone I can see all obstacles in my way Gone is that sonofabitch boss that had me blind It’s gonna be a bright (BRIGHT!) bright (BRIGHT!) sunshiney day\* I kinda took a few liberties with the lyrics 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Heller\_Highwater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/278dde/32.png) [@Heller\_Highwater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heller_Highwater)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2003, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-to-quit-your-job-by/192339/35 "2003-08-02T07:09:21Z")
How about Wally Pleasant’s _Stupid Day Job_. [singing]…at my stupid stupid stupid stupid, stupid stupid [sub]stupid stupid[/sub], stupid stupid stupid stupid day job…[/singing] Great, now I not only have the song stuck in my head, but the word “stupid” looks incredibly weird for some reason. ---
**Author:** ![gyt\_fx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/74df32/32.png) [@gyt\_fx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gyt_fx)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2003, 9:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-to-quit-your-job-by/192339/36 "2003-08-02T09:45:54Z")
Hmmm… Anyone see office space? well if you happen to beat the hell out of something (boss, co-worker, scanner, etc.) I suggest the songs that they bust teh scanner up to ‘Die motherf_ **er die motherf** _er die’ ---
**Author:** ![stolatt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@stolatt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stolatt)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2003, 10:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-to-quit-your-job-by/192339/37 "2003-08-02T10:02:56Z")
I take my card and I stand in line To make a buck I work overtime Dear Sir letters keep coming in the mail I work my back till it’s racked with pain The boss can’t even recall my name I show up late and I’m docked it never fails Bob Seger’s Feel Like a Number ---
**Author:** ![moejuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/57b2e6/32.png) [@moejuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moejuck)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2003, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-to-quit-your-job-by/192339/38 "2003-08-02T12:54:07Z")
They’re coming to take me away, Ha Ha. Don’t know who did it. Slob by Weezer Last Exit by Pearl Jam Freebird by Lynrd Skynrd Fell on Black Days by Soundgarden I won’t back down by Tom Petty Fucking Hostile by Pantera This is going to be one happy little CD! ---
**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2003, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-to-quit-your-job-by/192339/39 "2003-08-02T13:57:54Z")
(With apologies to the Beatles and Ringo Starr); paraphrased from"UNCLE ALBERT" -I’m so sorry (insert Boss’s name here), but I haven’t done a bloody thing all day -I’m so sorry, but I won’t do a bloody thing all day -(Repeat, as you leave the office) ---
**Author:** ![D.E.S.K.Top668](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f07891/32.png) [@D.E.S.K.Top668](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D.E.S.K.Top668)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2003, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-to-quit-your-job-by/192339/40 "2003-08-02T14:18:07Z")
**moejuck** , that would be “They’re Coming to Take Me Away” by Napoleon XIV. As for me, I’ll add Me First and the Gimme Gimmes’ version of “I will Survive”, 'Insanity" by the Infectious Grooves, and “Six Days on the Road” by Sawyer Brown. Peace - DESK [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-to-quit-your-job-by/192339.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-to-quit-your-job-by/192339.md?page=3)