The Office Jester… every office needs one to swallow the typical workday every day
So, the musical theme continues with your favourite Office Jester of the Office Hacks family of the Inkjet Wholesale species. Last time out, our post revolved around what we perceived to be the Entrepreneur Anthem or even the Anti – Entrepreneur Anthem, if the funny bone is missing from your body. This time around we’ve found something that even more of you will be able to associate yourself with.
These days, regardless of which country you look at (probably with the exception of Netherlands – those guys just love to do part time jobs), the corporate job is the most desirable job. The reason is simply that it pays the best from all other jobs and that includes government sector jobs in most countries. Entrepreneurship is not as desirable as a corporate job too because there is less risk involved in the latter.
However, what does having a corporate job do to your typical workday? Most corporate workers – barring the excitement junkies who feel special because they’re required to work late hours – complain about what their jobs are doing to their personal lives. There is a distinct lack of achievement in other fields of life as well.
So, what is the typical workday like for a corporate slave? Some dude answered this question with the help of his fellow colleagues, a nice set of lyrics laced with a good dose of humour, and a Blink 182 sounding local band. Here it is.
The Typical Workday For A Corporate Slave
We find this song about the typical workday of a corporate junkie to be oddly satisfying. It quite comprehensively sums up the life of a corporate employee from the macro perspective as well as the micro perspective. Right from the start, the song refers to being late. Corporate employees work late, go to bed late, eat fast food, and hence wake up late.
This leads them to juggling multiple things every morning and still ending up being late. Let’s be honest, if you hold a full time job, you would’ve done this a few times as well. The most common multitasking combo, of course, is to eat breakfast while driving but then there’ve been many others. Have you never had to stop along the way to your work just because you needed a quick toilette break? No? Well, we haven’t either… we don’t know what you’re talking about. ::cough::
Then there is this ever present hope of a great vacation to get away from the never-ending sequence of one typical workday after another. That beautiful, beautiful trip to the beach or even the gorgeous visit to the secluded resort in the mountains – these are things that corporate workers almost always dream of. To be honest, though, most full time employees dream of this kind of stuff.
This next reference in the video purely relates to the typical workday in the corporate world though i.e. the boss not remembering your name. That is possibly the most annoying, irritating, and frustrating thing that could happen to you. And, you know what is even worse, the fact that this happens after you’ve been trying everything short of a lap dance to get your corporate boss to remember you. How humiliating…ugh!
While we enjoyed the full song about the typical workday of a corporate employee, there are two lines that really stood out for us.
“I get on the ladder, I corporately climb, I wave at my life as it passes me by everyday”
Remember, the only reason people do this is money. Some people will think that they do it for the prestige and peer appreciation but even that is based around moolah! Oh and we particularly liked the “corporately climb”.
The second line from this song about the typical workday for a corporate employee that we’ve picked out possibly summarises the corporate life as succinctly as possible.
“I’m overworked and underpaid and non – appreciated, it’s just the perk of being Middle class and educated”
Have you ever wondered why the majority of corporate employees always come from the middle class? Well, it’s because the middle management is the largest in number and middle class are the largest in number. That was supposed to be funny, but only morbidly funny.
Dark humour is the best one there is.
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