David Byrne from (I believe) Uh Oh
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
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.”
I was always partial to “I’m free” by the Who from Tommy
“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
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.
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.
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
My friend wrote a song about working at McDonalds called “Mindless Tedium.” Again, those are the entire lyrics.
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’.”
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.”
Jack Logan, Aloha-Ha (played in Hawaiian style):
Well, it’s not really about quitting a job, though there is a line about “eventually his boss will stop calling.”
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.
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
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.
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 motherfer die motherfer die’
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
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!
(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)
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