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Applying punk principles in the workplace
When the Exploited coined these words, the pre-teenage me decided that this was how I was going to live my life:
"Snarling and gobbing and falling around
I really enjoy the freedom I've found"
Yeah! But after just a few minutes of actually being in the workplace, I quickly established that this is not the way to go. Doesn't go down well. So you have to tone it down a notch.
The reference to Cato in another thread reminds me of a work training thing where colleagues are required to "Cato" each other with surprise work questions.
They want to hear people say good-naturedly, "Nigel just Cato'd me in the lift about our latest product's features!".
Naturally, I "Cato" people about Depeche Mode lyrics and then say at the end "a bit like our latest product's features", whether that makes sense or not.
See? You *can* stick it to the man and keep your job.
How do you subvert from within?
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ZOUNDS!
If you've got a job
You can be an agent
You can work for revolution
In your place of employment
If you've got a job you can be an agent
You can work for revolution in your place of employment
If you work in a factory throw a spanner in the works
Internal sabotage, hit them where it hurts
Subvert - subvert - subvert - subvert
If you've got a job
Where they treat you like a slave
Where they treat you like a zombie
In their corporate grave
If you work in a office making tea for the bosses
While they are getting richer on ten times your pay
They may think you're stupid but you're working undercover
You've got the potential to disobey
Subvert - subvert - subvert - subvert
If you've got a job
Cos there's nothing else to do
Where they think they've got you trapped in
The boxes that they choose
If you've got a job you can be an agent
If you work in a kitchen you can redistribute food
If you are a policeman ordered to arrest me
You don't have to do it, you can refuse
Subvert - subvert - subvert - subvert
Great song!
In 2012, this line is laughable:
"If you work in a office making tea for the bosses
While they are getting richer on ten times your pay"
Just the ten times?
You know those signs on the back doors of vans,
the ones that say 'NO TOOLS LEFT IN THIS VAN OVERNIGHT' ? Well I've got one of those, but, (snigger) I do leave tools in the van overnight!
Wacky neckties
Thats how you stick it to the man.
Easy for me.
Loads of spitting in my surgery.
I get to
sack senior people.
Sometimes I wear odd socks...
...and spit at people in meetings.
My own small victory...
I was the manager of a well-known music retailer who, before going totally tits-up were taken over by a relatively unknown Antipodean music retailer. The new management made our lives a living daily hell, they really did. After one particularly gruesome day at the coal face, I changed the wee message at the bottom of the till receipt to read "The management are a bunch of shits." No-one ever noticed.