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Work is weird
You make lifelong friends
You make work acquaintances
You have mutual respect
You get on so well at work
But then you donât see them ever again
No hard feelings whatsoever.
Work is weird
You have email rap battles
You watch the entire series of Game of Thrones at work
You book meeting rooms and watch episodes of You Bet
You laugh so hard with colleagues
Real deep belly laughter.
Work is weird
You share memes over Teams
You share chats at the watercooler
You share coffee in the mornings
You share problems
You share solutions.
Work is weird
40 hours a week with these people
You know some colleages better than your family
You make the most of it
You connect as deeply as you can.
Work is weird
You get free lunches
You get free coffees
You get free charge for your phone
You get freedom in your spare time.
Work is weird
You laugh at funny jokes
Your superiors are down to earth
You write things like âHope you are wellâ and you really do care
You walk in the office door, make your morning coffee and sit at your desk
Every single day. So blessed to have a job.
Work is weird
Counting down the clock
Tick tock tick tock
off I pop
You are free to spend your evenings however you wish!
How blessed!
Work is weird
Youâre free to leave at any time
The world is your oyster
If you do decide to leave your job
There are new strangers to make friends with in the next!
Work is weird
You have sweets and cake to share just because
You share how great your weekend away was
You come in on a Monday, refreshed
You are gainfully employed, and that is the best!
Work is weird
You are free to leave at any time
You can always upskill and get a better job
You can leave to become self employed
You can leave to become whatever you wish
You have the choice, only you can do it for you.
Work is weird
You get home from work
Loved ones greet you
You have a warm delicious meal
The world is your Oyster!
Work is weird
P.S.
Hereâs the real life email rap battleâŚ
Da lyf of a content admin
V: Content admins sitting in the corner,
Thinking how the Canada site can be a real scorner,
Canisters, Campaigns, Handhelds and Sticks,
Building these pages to buy some fresh kicks,
Get dem images from censhare and upload to the Dam,
My PCs slowing down, I need a bigger RAM.
My homies in content, taking on the man,
Trying to get Macs or even a Dyson fan,
Gotta go now, to bang out tickets on Jira,
Much love to my homies, welcome to the content era!!!
T: Iâm gonna make you an offer you canât refuse.
Finish your page builds, or youâre gonna lose.
I gave back the Cannoli and took up my gun.
Youâll be sleeping with the fishes by the time Iâm done.
Enough of this nonsense, your PC is fine.
Keep moaning about RAM and Iâll get JD on the line.
Michael needs me right now, the familyâs in trouble.
Get back to work or Iâll make you work double.
R: This is just like a binary acrostic
Doing the job and beinâ system agnostic
Consider these thoughts, my opinions, my two-pence
I couldnât give a monkeys which side of the fence
Whether itâs mac or a pee-cee or a nokia en-gage
I need a solid laptop like a diver needs a shark cage
Weâre sufferinâ from outages and endless frustration
We need better answers and a better explanation.
S: Listen up fellas, itâs all very cheesy
Itâs a dumb argument between a Mac and a PC
Quit da beef now, letâs all stay alive
all we really need is a clean hard drive
The I.T tune-up, was all pretty whack
Our homie Chris Ellis has got our back
Stop the fightinâ, end the grapple
The winner is⌠not Dell but an Apple.
R: Youâve rhymed a plural with a singular case
This school boy error is a grammar disgrace
But itâs OK to have occasional fluctuation
When abusing the placement of some; punctuation
Cases beget cleanliness, not that youâd know
As you dropped you mic when you had to go
And now itâs all sticky and covered in crumbs
And like my PCâs health check, the results are just bums.
S: Youâve dissed me too much now
Youâve made me an enemy
You look like the love-child of
Big-foot and D-Bell-a-me
Your words donât touch meâŚ
You smell like a turdâŚ
Just face up to it man,
YOUâRE A BIG GRAMMER NERD.
R: Some super fresh rhymes from the lyrical Sasquatch
A word for word bad job with a soupcon of sweet botch
A stutter gun attack with ad-hoc syncopation
A one word attempt at a wordy delegation
Start from the top and give it your best shot
Your rhymes are as weak as an out-of-work despot
Shoot me back, câmon itâs lyrically easy
Cos your beats are slow as my knackered old pc
V: Look at us? Fighting among over selves like muggles,
But at the end of the day, weâre all facing the same struggles,
Letâs unite and put this mac case forward to Chris,
Donât get distracted with beefs and making a diss.
Check yourself before you wreck yourself.
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I think R won that one, what do you think?
Note: Photo from Canva pro, with a little bit of magic Slartdust â and a dash of Slartificial intelligence đ¤
If you missed part 1, here it is: