Originally published at: Columbia News Service. (Archived here)
Also published in the Berkshire Eagle – April 29, 2010.
Country music has taught us how to deal with heartbreak, that it’s OK to be on a first-name basis with Jack Daniels and Jim Beam, and that bosses are mean. Johnny Paycheck hated his boss so much that he told him to “Take this job and shove it.” Dolly Parton railed against the drudgery of working “9 to 5” for a boss who was out to get her.
Maybe they would have been happier if they had had the “boss button.”
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