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PODCAST: LOUD Quitting—What Happened to “Take This Job and Shove It!”?

PODCAST: LOUD Quitting—What Happened to “Take This Job and Shove It!”?

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 Earlier this fall, I emailed my friend Tom, who is an expert in conflict management and a musician. I was advocating for “LOUD quitting,” as the alternative to “quiet quitting,” which has been in the news even though it’s existed for a couple thousand years. I got back this reply: “Excellent! If ‘loud quitting’ needs a theme song, I vote for ‘Take This Job and Shove It’!”In an instant, Tom’s reply and that song title recalled a place, a time, and a job.The ranger station was a few miles outside of the small logging town where I lived. Most mornings, I drove there with the fire crew foreman and sometimes with other members of our fire crew. You could hear the morning drive program on the AM car radio from the local country station or the rock station in a more distant city. Either way, every morning (at least it seemed like it), somewhere between the apartment above the Rexall Drug and the ranger station lost halfway between the town and the logging, that song title and first line were going to come blasting out of the car radio: “Take this job and shove it! I ain’t workin’ here no more.” That’ll get your attention on the way to work. Nothing quiet about it. But what about the song itself—and its loud quitting? If you ask a musician about a song, you’re going to learn about the lyrics and the structure. In this case, I learned that the structure of the song is unusual. Whether you read the lyrics online or watch the two main recording artists of the song perform, special things stand out described in this podcast.The singer also says something surprising, given the song’s title and opening line: “I’d give the shirt right off my back / If I had the guts to say // Take this job and shove it / I ain’t working here no more.”The singer isn’t actually quitting, but saying how he would quit if he could. Is he…quiet quitting? No, he’s not. Even hamstrung by supervisory idiots, he’s given it his all for 15 years. He knows more than the supervisors do about what needs to get done in that factory. So what is happening? And is it useful?The podcast explores three ways that the singer’s approach is indeed useful.When I’d heard the kind of story also told in the song, I had no way of knowing what had really happened. “I told them ‘Take this job and shove it’” is also something to say to buddies, friends, and family when you’ve lost your job—whether for good reason or for no reason at all.Whether as a way of coping, departing, or covering, “Take This Job and Shove It” captures intensely the difficulty of day-to-day work, not only for 15 minutes on a shift, but “for nigh on 15 years.” *. *. *AcknowledgementsTom Sebok, a professional conflict management expert, ombuds, singer-songwriter, and sound engineer, provided the connection with the song and detailed commentary on it. An interview with Tom on conflict and the workplace will be featured in December.Lesley Reeder, author of the recent arresting Explore feature “What You Need to Know About Losing a Job”, provided commentary on quiet and loud quitting.The song “Take This Job and Shove It” was written by David Allen Coe. Short portions have been quoted here; complete lyrics and recordings of the song are available on the web. *. *. *Keep seeing nature in work and work in nature. *. *. *Listen to All the Podcasts!The podcast editions of every The Nature and Science of Work feature are available at The Nature and Science of Work archive; on the Substack app; and on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, PocketCasts, Spotify, Stitcher, and your favorite podcast provider. Read the Newsletter!Read the newsletter version of this podcast and extended program notes!Subscribe to The Nature and Science of Work: Read and Listen to the Archive!!Subscribe now to The Nature and Science of Work to receive all Explore and Integrate features and podcasts, by email or with the Substack app, and receive complete access to the extensive and growing Nature and Science of Work archive.Talk to Us!Reach us by replying to any Nature and Science of Work emailing or at natureandscienceofwork@substack.com.Get the App Get full access to The Nature and Science of Work at natureandscienceofwork.substack.com/subscribe
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