{"id":1746,"date":"2014-04-11T06:21:45","date_gmt":"2014-04-11T10:21:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.graymanwrites.com\/blog\/?p=1746"},"modified":"2014-04-11T06:22:20","modified_gmt":"2014-04-11T10:22:20","slug":"on-my-last-day-at-ncsu-ies-heres-a-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/on-my-last-day-at-ncsu-ies-heres-a-song\/","title":{"rendered":"On My Last Day at NCSU-IES, Here&#8217;s a Song"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today is my last day on the Industrial Extension Service staff, and it seemed appropriate to mark the day with the first &#8220;workplace &#8216;filk'&#8221; I wrote there, simply entitled &#8220;The I-E-S Song.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_qG3hIbhJcE?rel=0\" height=\"315\" width=\"420\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I started in January 2008 as primarily the speechwriter for the Executive Director, and I filled my time between speeches with other &#8212; primarily marketing-related &#8212; writing and editing assignments. But along the way I had the opportunity to do a few unique and interesting things:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Planned the logistics for the statewide &#8220;Manufacturing Makes It Real&#8221; Tour in 2010 (which became the still-extant MMIR Network)<\/li>\n<li>Got some of the &#8220;Made in North Carolina&#8221; products we collected into the NC Museum of History<\/li>\n<li>Helped start the short-lived NC Aerospace Initiative in 2009-10<\/li>\n<li>Produced the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/ManufacturingMinute?feature=watch\">&#8220;Manufacturing Minute&#8221; series of videos in 2012-13<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And along the way I wrote a few songs: &#8220;The I-E-S Song&#8221; in 2008; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WUYXi8HY0qk\">&#8220;The Economic Recovery Blues&#8221;<\/a> and &#8220;Oh, How I Hate Groupwise&#8221; in 2009; &#8220;The 1B4NC Song,&#8221; &#8220;We Know Manufacturing Makes It Real&#8221; in 2010; &#8220;If You Want to Get Better&#8221; and &#8220;The Old, Old Days of Industry&#8221; in 2011; and &#8220;Dirty, Sexy Manufacturing&#8221; in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Note that none of my work-related songs made it onto my album, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Truths-Lies-Make-Believe-Gray-Rinehart\/dp\/B00FYECZNM\">Truths and Lies and Make-Believe<\/a>. The audience for my music is already pretty small, but the audience for workplace songs in particular is tiny.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I wrote a little rhyme to mark my departure, too.<\/p>\n<p><em>It&#8217;s been fun<br \/>\nI had a good run<br \/>\nAnd now I&#8217;m done.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Fare thee (or, fare me) well.<\/p>\n<a class=\"synved-social-button synved-social-button-share synved-social-size-24 synved-social-resolution-single synved-social-provider-facebook nolightbox\" data-provider=\"facebook\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"Share on Facebook\" 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