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Hi guys,Here I am, Ms Wet Blanket of 1999-2000. I haven't been joining in much over the last few months with the Mudcat community happenings and it is all because I ...want to kill my boss!! The sneaky, back stabbing, gutless #%$#@%+##@!
I'm not going to go into the long, sordid story here, but I've been under a huge amount of stress over the last 10 months because of him and another (female) manager and I am just in the process now of getting my own back .... [wicked, gleeful giggling] ... in the most professional way, of course (tee hee!) Thank god(s) for Unions and clever Union Organisers (Hi Big Mick!, for other managers with ethics, for professional mediators, and for organisational counsellors.
Well, I was reading the Mudcat thread titles the other day, looking at the BS threads and I realised that I had no interest in opening any of them - and then it came to me in a blinding revelatory flash, that I have *lost my sense of humour* (sob, sigh, moan)
So, I need you all to help me find it. Jokes, funny stories, songs, you name it, all welcome.
Especially songs about the meek inheriting the earth, or of the ilk of The Philadelphia Lawyer (in the database)
(Now way back in old Pennsylvania,
The lights are still shining as bright,
But there's one less Philadelphia lawyer
In old Philadelphia tonight.)
or about the downtrodden fighting back. Think of the scene in the Crocodile Dundee movie where the kangaroo starts "shooting" back - I laughed till I cried when I first saw that scene. I thought the blow fly reference, and the subway scene were a scream too, but I think you have to be from Oz to get those two jokes.
So, to start the ball rolling, the most appropriate song which springs to my mind is The Union Maid (it's in the database)
UNION MAID (Woody Guthrie)
There once was a union maid
Who never was afraid
Of goons and ginks and company finks
And deputy sheriffs who made the raids
She went to the union hall
When a meeting it was called,
And when the Legion boys came 'round
She always stood her ground.
cho: Oh, you can't scare me, I'm sticking to the union,
I'm sticking to the union,I'm sticking to the union
Oh, you can't scare me, I'm sticking to the union,
I'm sticking to the union till the day I die.
Helen - hanging out the wet blanket to dry - at last