Poison Idea's "Just To Get Away":
Quit my job Told my boss stand aside Grabbed a gun A fifth of booze and my ride
― Terrible Cold, Thursday, 17 April 2008 22:10 (sixteen years ago) link
What about Bobby Conn's "You aint ever gonna get ahead by giving head to the man"?
-- Michael Bourke, Thursday, 7 December 2000 01:00 (7 years ago) Bookmark Link
I left my job to go to University when I was 28... left the workplace and stuck this song on my headphones. Euphoria doesn't even get close.
― Mister Craig, Saturday, 19 April 2008 07:58 (sixteen years ago) link
This is thread 1 on ILM?
― Mark G, Thursday, 11 December 2008 17:46 (fifteen years ago) link
I listened to "Mario's Cafe" this morning to mark my own last rainy Kentish Town Thursday.
― Stevie T, Thursday, 11 December 2008 17:53 (fifteen years ago) link
"Midtown" by Japanther is a fantastic job quitting song.
― fucking in the streets, Thursday, 11 December 2008 18:29 (fifteen years ago) link
Only one brief mention of the insurmountable 'Lost In Music' by Sister Sledge? You are in for a treat when you hear it again!
― Dr. Joseph A. Ofalt, Thursday, 11 December 2008 20:51 (fifteen years ago) link
"Mr. Sellack" by the Roches.
― banjoboy, Friday, 12 December 2008 06:03 (fifteen years ago) link
"Spread Your Wings" by Queen
― xhuxk, Thursday, 18 December 2008 18:48 (fifteen years ago) link
so what's planned for the 26th then?
― Quo riff just isn't a suitable vehicle for interplanetary exploration (Ioannis), Tuesday, 10 August 2010 13:54 (thirteen years ago) link
MDC - greedy & pathetic
never tell the truth, so full of lies words so hollow, depth so shallow you lie to us from the 40th floor don't even know us we're desperate and sore you jack the rent can't save a cent money we've earned we already spent sorry to say, we're gonna blow you away careful starting your car today so greedy, so pathetic, you're a liar a slumlord, a thief, you're house is on fire and we see you through your office walls and fancy chairspeople will see you crumble and they'll won't care;
― meisenfek, Tuesday, 10 August 2010 16:08 (thirteen years ago) link
no thread about the ipod of Fed-Up Flight Attendant who Makes Sliding Exit?
― meisenfek, Tuesday, 10 August 2010 16:17 (thirteen years ago) link
What should happen at the FAP... Tom would be sitting at a table in a pub on his own. Then Josh would walk in and sit down with him. And then this mysterious Extension Trip person. Then Irene, Ned, Nick, and a second duplicate of Josh. And so on.
― The New Dirty Vicar, Tuesday, 24 August 2010 16:47 (thirteen years ago) link
It's a vision.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 25 August 2010 18:03 (thirteen years ago) link
Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs - i ain't gonna work tomorrow
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBZ64W7URoE
― meisenfek, Saturday, 28 August 2010 20:44 (thirteen years ago) link
i quit my nice safe office job to help run a new musical instrument shop. prob a mistake, gonna be an adventure. feelin' a bit like this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WngY-xti0lo
― Crackle Box, Thursday, 23 May 2013 14:35 (eleven years ago) link
congratulations!enjoy the ride.....
― m0stlyClean, Thursday, 23 May 2013 16:30 (eleven years ago) link
13 soon! Will ILX be holding a Bar Mitzvah party?
― ed.b, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 13:09 (ten years ago) link
How about an exit interview?
― slamming on the dubstep brakes (snoball), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 13:12 (ten years ago) link
Today, you are a man.
― ed.b, Monday, 26 August 2013 01:00 (ten years ago) link
Buzzcocks' Breakdown, "Better give up the job before it gives up me"
― Dr X O'Skeleton, Monday, 26 August 2013 20:59 (ten years ago) link
I associate the Streets' "Lock the Locks" (title?) with leaving a job.
― djh, Monday, 26 August 2013 21:34 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmCrU_RjoZg
― Jazzbo, Wednesday, 28 August 2013 12:22 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zug2QDB_AUI
― john. a resident of chicago., Wednesday, 28 August 2013 12:25 (ten years ago) link
Dirty Rotten Imbeciles - Money Stinks
"I'm staying home today...and I'm not going back to work!"
― how's life, Wednesday, 28 August 2013 12:52 (ten years ago) link
Is 'The Short-cut Way to Saturday' by Yeah Yeah Noh about quitting your job? Or fantasies of quitting your job?
on the wall the bricks are hours, I just crossed off another daytomorrow, we say, we'll stop counting, then tomorrow we say the same again
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdwAoqaGRyc
― platonic beanie (Eight Model Play), Wednesday, 28 August 2013 21:33 (ten years ago) link
Unbelievable that "Maggie's Farm" hasn't been mentioned.
― bodacious ignoramus, Friday, 30 August 2013 20:48 (ten years ago) link
happy belated my sweet
― mattresslessness, Tuesday, 28 October 2014 03:16 (nine years ago) link
Kevin Ayers, "Stranger in Blue Suede Shoes"
― ... and a Martin Parr photo essay (Tom D.), Tuesday, 28 October 2014 15:52 (nine years ago) link
― Tom (Groke), Saturday, August 26, 2000 1:00 AM (15 years ago)
FFFFFFUUUUUUUUUU-
― scarlett bohansson (unregistered), Wednesday, 26 August 2015 23:13 (eight years ago) link
(happy birthday, ILM)
<3 u ILM, happy birthday (belated)
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 27 August 2015 05:57 (eight years ago) link
take this job and shove it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPrSVkTRb24
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, 27 August 2015 06:56 (eight years ago) link
Oops seems it was mentioned 14 years ago. Still the best song about quitting your job.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, 27 August 2015 06:57 (eight years ago) link
Ugh, 15 was the worst of the angsty teenage years for me. Here's to ILX spending the next year hanging out in the basement, moping around and listening to Psychocandy.
― EDB, Thursday, 27 August 2015 16:37 (eight years ago) link
I was 20 years old when I first posted in this thread. Mind blown.
― Jeff, Thursday, 27 August 2015 17:01 (eight years ago) link
I was 17 ;_;
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Thursday, 27 August 2015 17:12 (eight years ago) link
Butthole Surfers OTM
happy birthday!
― sleeve, Thursday, 27 August 2015 17:57 (eight years ago) link
https://www.jpc.de/image/w600/front/0/7330169666926.jpg
time to listen to this album that i have had hidden away for years then ?
― mark e, Thursday, 27 August 2015 18:32 (eight years ago) link
arse .. crappy website stamp overlay
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/510btZ5ZZAL._SX300_.jpg
Beck's finest hour ("Mexico") is a job-quitting rob-the-till-when-you-go song.
― ... (Eazy), Thursday, 27 August 2015 18:35 (eight years ago) link
"Candy," one of my favorite songs by The Men, which starts with the line "I just quit my job now I can stay out all night long"
― Ys Man a.k.a. Have One on G (geoffreyess), Thursday, 27 August 2015 23:29 (eight years ago) link
I had this song stuck in my head today, now I know why!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rhpb_-QGPQ0
― List of people who are ready for woe and how we know this (seandalai), Friday, 28 August 2015 00:42 (eight years ago) link
(seventeen years ago)
― Erotic Wolf (crüt), Friday, 22 September 2017 04:33 (six years ago) link
So was this the first thread on ILM?
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Saturday, 27 April 2019 22:37 (five years ago) link
Pretty sure I posted this upthread but it's not showing up.
The Statics - "I Quit"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zug2QDB_AUI
― john. a resident of evanston. (john. a resident of chicago.), Saturday, 27 April 2019 23:48 (five years ago) link
Aww ned that’s pretty cool
― calstars, Friday, 26 July 2019 23:56 (four years ago) link
I'd like to say I was OTM in this thread
― Colonel Poo, Saturday, 27 July 2019 00:11 (four years ago) link
"Brilliant Pizza" is an interesting word combo.
― frustration and wonky passion (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 27 July 2019 00:30 (four years ago) link
I stand by it
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 27 July 2019 03:10 (four years ago) link
As you should. It's amazing!
― frustration and wonky passion (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 27 July 2019 03:17 (four years ago) link