Sorry Bob! …for my bastardized version of Subterranean Homesick Blues

Here is a recent video I did with an awesome team from Onboard Informatics to promote a new HR system.   We work hard but we play hard.   It is another spoof on the legendary video for “Subterranean Homesick Blues” by Bob Dylan.  That was Bob’s first top 40 hit back in 1965.

Video

Review Blues Lyrics

(verse 1)

A

Johnny’s in the corner nook, surfing on facebook

I’m by the trash cans thinking about career plans

Boss is always running late, changes the date, says to wait

Says it’s a bad day, I didn’t want to anyway

D                                A

Look out kid, something you did, god knows when, but you’re doing it again

Better duck down the other way , Suddenly he’s not your friend

E

Dreading when we sit down, no one else will be around

A

Wants me scoring low to keep my chances down

(verse 2)

Never did career goals, always stayed away from those

Doesn’t matter anyway, I’m prolly where I’m gonna stay

They don’t want me promoted; don’t they see I’m devoted?

Says we’ll talk in early May, probably more like Labor Day

D

Look out kid, don’t matter what you did,

A

Brushing up to get a 3, what the heck is a competency?

Professional, functional, sounds more like a bunch of bull

E

Let me eat my lunchable, it’s something more affordable

A

I don’t need a CDP, to know what they expect of me

(verse 3)

Almost a 2, almost a 3, almost ain’t fooling me

Boss says things about me, 12 months from memory

Remember when, wrong again, I don’t recall I dropped the ball

Spending time below the line, toe the line you’ll be fine

D

Look out kid, you’re gonna get hit

A

Numbers, superiors, peer reviews, I ain’t inferior

E

Thinking you can rate me but don’t communicate me

A

I want a real meter, so that I can be a leader

(verse 4)

I get rated, I participated,

No review on the shelf, Gonna Rate myself

Get assessed, not stressed, try to be a success

Please her, please him, Moving up, don’t whine;

don’t give up many years of trying, many years of trying

D

Look out kid, don’t keep it all hid

A

Don’t ignore my goals, I got myself a new role

Don’t avoid the feedback, time for my career track

E

Time for new direction, performance resurrection,

A

Now its all in my control, I got a future, let’s roll

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