Just for a bit of fun…
We would do anything for work
We’d run right into hell and back
We would do anything for work
We’d never lie in and miss a Zoom call and that’s a fact
Some days, it don’t come easy
And some days everything is hard
Some days we don’t want to come to work at all,
And these are the days that never end
And some nights you’re still on your emails
And some nights you just can’t switch off
Some nights your inbox is like nothing you’ve ever seen before
But you probably will again
(and again)
And maybe overwork is driving us crazy
Oh it’s crazy and it’s true
Nothing else can save us now, but a lottery win or two
As long as the corporate world is turning
As long as both ends of the candle are burning
As long as our Finance Director’s dreams are coming true
You better believe it
We would do anything for work
We’ll be there till the final pay cheque
And we would do anything for work!
We signed the contract and sealed the pact
But it might take months to recover
If we don’t hold a little bit back
And somedays we pray for silence
And somedays we pray for a new role
Somedays we just pray to the God of office fires Dear God please Just Burn it All
And some days we lose all feeling
And some days we got no goals
Some days we just wish that someone else was in control
Will you raise me up?
Will you help me write my resignation letter down?
Will you help me get this Godforsaken Out of Office reply on?
Will you make it all a little less like hell?
I can do that!
Oh I can do that!
Will you hold my phone calls?
Will you hold my pint?
Can you colorise my spreadsheets I’m so sick of black and white?
On second thoughts please leave the spreadsheets black and white (my eyes)
I can do that
Oh oh now I can do that
Will you make my job bit more magic with your own two hands?
Can you build me a less punishing career that still meets my mortgage demands?
Can you give me some time that I can spend at home?
Now I can do that
Oh now I can do that
Will you cater to every fantasy I got?
Will you hose my laptop with Holy water so I can leave this meeting on the dot?
Will you give me a lunchbreak I’ve never known?
Now I can do that
Oh, oh now I can do that!
Or after a while we’ll start to forget everything
Our brains will turn to custard and we’ll have no dopamine
We know that we should really move on
So why not do that?
Yeah, let’s do that
We know the territory
We’ve been around
So this time we’re going to make a practical plan to take care of ourselves
Before we’re run into the ground
Will we do that?
We should do that.
We would do anything for work
Oh we would do anything for work
But this time, we won’t do that
No we won’t do that
by Ngaire Wallace - for more pun (and research)-based Psychology, sign up to our newsletter.
