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submitted 7 months ago by Kiko@lemmy.ml to c/casualconversation@lemm.ee

I’ve started to create a playlist of work-related songs for days I’m feeling cynical at and about work. It’s got some classics like 16 Tons, 9 to 5, and Welcome to the Machine. But also more metaphorical songs like ‘The Snake’ from Shivaree.

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[-] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 9 points 7 months ago

"I Don't Want To Be Here Anymore" by Rise Against.

[-] viking@infosec.pub 7 points 7 months ago

Alestorm - Fucked with an anchor

[-] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago

I can't think of a song for "I like my job and the people I serve and my team, but my managers have all been aliens wearing skin suits pretending to human and that's pretty soul sucking" so someone please write me one.

Maybe I'll ask Chat GPT.

[-] cactusupyourbutt@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago

pink floyd - welcome to the machine

[-] hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 7 months ago

Helloween - I want out

Some projects are very painful

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Maybe manager Rob can write God damn login page himself

(Code Monkey - Johnathan Coulton)

[-] CosmicCleric@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

Yeah, this. Good choice.

[-] Flamangoman@leminal.space 5 points 7 months ago

My music at work by the tragically hip

[-] ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 7 months ago

Dolly Parton, 9 to 5

[-] Iamsqueegee@sh.itjust.works 5 points 7 months ago

Take This Job and Shove It - Johnny Paycheck

[-] Timecircleline@sh.itjust.works 5 points 7 months ago

Little Bit Off by Five Finger Death Punch

[-] inlandempire@jlai.lu 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Fucking Werewolf Asso - Cri Du Chat

It's only got one sentence "sung" (more like yelled in anguish) : 'I try to live my own life but they won't let me'

Very good guitar build up and the drop pays off

[-] maegul@lemmy.ml 4 points 7 months ago

For some reason a whole lot of Metallica songs come to mind:

First four tracks of the Justice album

  • Blackened
  • … And justice for all
  • Eye of the beholder
  • One

Also,

  • Master of Puppets
  • Disposable Heroes
[-] chumbalumber@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Six in the morning don't want to wake

Sun laying low and the world sleeping late

Hate like the river runs heavy and deep

Oh I wish that they'd sack me and leave me to sleep

Five days from seven the week's hardly mine

The alarm clock's gone over to enemy lines

Waste my time working for cowards and creeps

Oh I wish that they'd sack me and leave me to sleep

Rain strikes the window heralds the day

Rain won't you wash these eight hours away?

Rain feeds the river runs heavy and deep

Oh I wish that they'd sack me and leave me to sleep

Birds at my window sing in the dawn

By the time that I'm home all this day will be gone

Spend my life sowing what others will reap

Oh I wish that they'd sack me and leave me to sleep

Rain strikes the window heralds the day

Rain won't you wash these eight hours away?

Rain feeds the river runs heavy and deep

Oh I wish that they'd sack me and leave me to sleep

Rain strikes the window heralds the day

Rain won't you wash these eight hours away?

Rain feeds the river runs heavy and deep

Oh I wish that they'd sack me and leave me to sleep

Rain strikes the window heralds the day

Rain won't you wash these eight hours away?

Rain feeds the river runs heavy and deep

Oh I wish that they'd sack me and leave me to sleep

Chumbawamba -- I wish they'd sack me

[-] Zoop@beehaw.org 4 points 7 months ago

Minimum Rage by Psychostick

and there's also Stoned at Work by Shockwire

These were just the first two songs to pop in my head.

"Halloween" by Dead Kennedys

[-] emmie@lemmy.ml 3 points 7 months ago

I do coke, so I can work longer, so I can earn more. So I can do more coke

[-] neidu2@feddit.nl 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Ram-Zet - No Peace

"
I'm inside you
I'm within your mind
All around you
No peace
"

[-] HubertManne@kbin.social 2 points 7 months ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-E0KGjJAx8 I want to be a boss by stan ridgeway (of wall of voodoo fame)

[-] dcatdemon@lemm.ee 2 points 7 months ago
[-] homain@lemmy.ml 2 points 7 months ago

it's been mentioned, but there's a cover of 'Take This Job and Shove It' by Dead Kennedys that's fun. and more recently, 'I Don't Want to Work for Scum anymore' by the Murder City Devils. just Murder City Devils in general

[-] zabadoh@ani.social 2 points 7 months ago
[-] Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago
[-] dirtySourdough@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago
[-] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 1 points 7 months ago
[-] zabadoh@ani.social 1 points 7 months ago
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