Denae McCready
The Offsprings ask “why don’t you get a job?” Well, turns out it’s just not that simple. It’s about finding the right person for the job. We learnt that employers seek out particular positive qualities and talents. “Sitting on your ass”, perpetuating laziness and lack of motivation isn’t one of them (sorry lead singer’s friend’s girlfriend!)
Fun fact: The lead singer has a PhD in molecular biology. How cool!
Jayden Jones
The interests of employees at work, their behaviour and mental wellbeing are very important values to consider when considering the efficiency and long term working lifespan of an employee. This song discusses many things, but it is most keenly obvious that it is discussing those with lazy partners, who feel as though they're working constantly to support them. It sounds evident that the working spouse says no, but does continue to support them. Almost like their partner is manipulating them, so that they burn themselves out at work to provide. Perhaps from an organisational psychology point of view, this means that an employee is experiencing more than usual trauma from the working environment for a reason completely out of the work environment's control. One's supervisor at work can't exactly dictate where their employee best spends their paycheck, even if they believe it's for their own good. It's of an organisational psychological interest because it explains the unique relationship between one's home life and working life. The providing partner in the example given in this song is burning the wick of their mental health candle at both ends. A partner can influence an employee's relationship with their work, negatively (or positively sometimes), and so too can work with an employee's relationship. Often we hear of people having to split up because of their work schedules not matching, which is an obvious work dominating social/romantic life example, but this song highlights the reverse: which is that so too can personal relationships negatively influence one's time at work.
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