Empty Desks – A punk song for your return to office policy
A punk song to figth against return to office policies, corporate greed, and office prisons.
From the album "A Brief History of System Failures – Vol. 1"
Released by Stale Branch Records.
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0:00 Cover
0:02 New Email
0:10 Song starts
3:30 End
--- Lyrics
Memo from the tower! Glass and light!
"Collaboration!" after midnight!
Badge in! don't be late!
Entry gate like a prison grate!
Badge out! Don't be slow!
Just a name, just a row!
They want a body! They want a soul!
They want numbers! They want control!
(Oi! Oi! Oi!)
Stats on the wall!
(Oi! Oi! Oi!)
Wait for the fall!
R-T-O! LAYOFF IN DISGUISE!
R-T-O! LET THE STOCK RISE!
EMPTY DESKS! EMPTY SPACE!
GET ME OUT OF THIS RAT RACE!
NOT COMING IN!
NOT COMING IN!
Two hour train! Four hour meet!
Badging in just to fill a seat!
Fluorescent hum! Fluorescent dread!
Better work in my damn bed!
Over-invested! Over-hired!
Wrong projections! Now we're fired!
Fix the margin! Make us bleed!
Shareholder profit! Or just a VC!
(Oi! Oi! Oi!)
Stats on the wall!
(Oi! Oi! Oi!)
Wait for the fall!
R-T-O! LAYOFF IN DISGUISE!
R-T-O! LET THE STOCK RISE!
EMPTY DESKS! EMPTY SPACE!
GET ME OUT OF THIS RAT RACE!
NOT COMING IN!
NO! NOT COMING IN!
NO! NOT COMING IN!
Squeeze 'em out! Burn 'em out!
Make it suck 'til they don't come back!
Re-org chaos! Cold pizza crust!
Sign the PIP! Bite the dust!
Blame the AI! Blame the rates!
Blame the macro! Seal the gates!
Corporate greed! Management lust!
It's all on us! We gave our trust!
R-T-O! LAYOFF IN DISGUISE!
R-T-O! LET THE STOCK RISE!
EMPTY DESKS! EMPTY SPACE!
GET ME OUT OF THIS RAT RACE!
NOT COMING IN!
NO! NOT COMING IN!
NO! NOT COMING IN!
NOT COMING IN! (Oi!)
NOT COMING IN! (Oi!)
NOT COMING IN! (Oi!)
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