Songs About Quitting Your Job?

Get your paws off me! Get THE FUCK away from me!

I got a job making money for the man
throwing chicken in the bucket with the soda pop can
puke green uniform on my back
I had to set it on fire in a vat of chicken fat

I leaped on the counter like a bird with no hair
running through the mini mall in my underwear
I got lost downtown couldn't find a ride home
sun went down I got frozen to the bone

'til a hooker let me share her fake fur coat
as I took a little nap the cops picked up us both
I tried to explain I was only trying to get warm
I knew I never ever should have burnt my uniform

He said too bad. You want to bite the bullet hard son?
I didn't have no teeth so I stole his gun
and I crawled out the window with my shadow on a spoon
dancing on the roof, shooting holes in the moon

get busy, get busy, you know it
I ain't going to work for no soul-sucking jerk
I'm gonna take it all back and I ain't saying jack

i'd been listening to radiohead-polyethylene on the longass commute to work via express bus. i figure it had something to do with my decision.

at what i suppose would be the start of part 2, the lyrics go: "So sell your suit and tie and come and live with me"

. . . other lyrics include "If you don't believe me, well, sell your soul"

I decided to see what threadid=1 was and found myself, 7 years ago, pimping britpop. lovely!

Revive!

Was this really the first ILM thread ever?

"work it out" by 42nd street

"Life in Prison," Merle Haggard/The Byrds

I had a whole tape of these before I moved to Seattle.

sort of per above: "When I Win the Lottery," Camper Van Beethoven

kind of existential, but: "Drop the Bomb," Trouble Funk

"We're Not Gonna Take It," Twisted Sister

sort of: "Don't Talk to Me About Work," Lou Reed

"Big City" by Merle Haggard.

You celebrate by making a mixtape? No, YOU DO NOT. You celebrate by ordering a brilliant pizza, picking up some fantastic wine and having a laugh with your friends. And if you're not doing this right now I will chain you to the Levellers' caravan and make you listen to them AGAIN AND AGAIN.
Once all that is done, then you make said tape. So 20th century, though; it's all CDRs and mp3 folders these days. Try starting with Ween's "Pumpin' 4 the Man." ;-)

-- Ned Raggett, Monday, 28 August 2000 00:00 (7 years ago) Bookmark Link

Sigh. 9/11 changed everything.

Hate my Job - Butthole Surfers - 'sat here at my fucking desk, looking at it and all the rest...

'I hate Work ' Millions of Dead Cops

A -'five in the morning' spoke eloquently about not getting oneself into that ridiculous situation in the first place - like many of us, including me have managed to

DKs -' take this job and shove it'

'Surf Wax America' by Weezer
http://www.seeqpod.net/search/?plid=605dbbe782

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

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.

This is thread 1 on ILM?

I listened to "Mario's Cafe" this morning to mark my own last rainy Kentish Town Thursday.

"Midtown" by Japanther is a fantastic job quitting song.

Only one brief mention of the insurmountable 'Lost In Music' by Sister Sledge? You are in for a treat when you hear it again!

"Mr. Sellack" by the Roches.

"Spread Your Wings" by Queen

so what's planned for the 26th then?

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 chairs
people will see you crumble
and they'll won't care;

no thread about the ipod of Fed-Up Flight Attendant who Makes Sliding Exit?

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.

It's a vision.

Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs - i ain't gonna work tomorrow

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBZ64W7URoE

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

congratulations!
enjoy the ride.....

13 soon! Will ILX be holding a Bar Mitzvah party?

How about an exit interview?

Today, you are a man.

Buzzcocks' Breakdown, "Better give up the job before it gives up me"

I associate the Streets' "Lock the Locks" (title?) with leaving a job.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmCrU_RjoZg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zug2QDB_AUI

Dirty Rotten Imbeciles - Money Stinks

"I'm staying home today...and I'm not going back to work!"

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 day
tomorrow, we say, we'll stop counting, then tomorrow we say the same again

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdwAoqaGRyc