Piss Call Center

Piss Factory Patti Smith

This song is so I hate my job. And yes friends I’ve had a job or two that I didn’t like. The job that I was at the longest was also the one gave the most headaches. I would sing this to myself a lot.

I’d change the lyrics to fit my situation.

“Twenty two and time to pay off.” Versus “Sixteen and time to pay off”

I didn’t have a job in a piss factory but in a piss call center. The first part talks about co workers so grateful for a job and I was like why? That job sucked the soul out of me through a straw. “But I wasn’t saying too much neither/I was moral school girl” Yes I hated it but when you got bills to pay you better shut up and get to work. Now that I’ve left I have to say I miss having benefits and a lack of money problems I don’t miss going to work miserable everyday.

During the end of the song Ms. Smith explains her envy of the nuns next to the factory. I too was jealous of those in other jobs. The grass was greener. Towards the end of the song there is hope. Ms. Smith tells us she had “something to hide called desire” I too had and still have desire. I wasn’t going to rot in a call center or Columbus, Georgia. Often I would say to myself “And I will get out of here.” But instead of getting on that train bound for New York. I would get on that freeway and go to Atlanta.

I’ve since left the piss call center. I don’t have as much money as I used to but I have a job that I actually like. Will I get on that freeway and go to Atlanta and never return? I don’t know yet. However replace getting on the train to New York with finally having some stability and having a job I like. Yes I will I got something to hide called desire I’ve gotta get out of here.