SO JUST TELL YOUR BOSS YOU NEED TO BLAST REPULSION AT WORK. IT’S GOOD FOR BUSINESS!

If you hate your job — and it seems like there’s a pretty substantial portion of the workforce that does — than I have some great news for you: now there’s a way to fuck your boss over and listen to awesome grindcore and death metal all day long.

According to The Washington Post, a recent study by psychologists Nick Perham and Martinne Sykora has found that while workers perform more poorly while listening to music they like, their performance actually improves when listening to music they hate. The “music they hate” used for the study? The legendary Repulsion!!!

So the way I see it is this: you crank Repulsion (or the metal band of your choice), and when your boss asks you what the fuck you think you’re doing, you show him or her the study and say, “See? This is helping you/the company/the client/whatever!!!” And then you can keep right on listening to Repulsion. Sure, you’ll actually be doing a shittier job because you like Repulsion, but you hate your job, so fuck do you care anyway?

Read the entire article on the study here. I first read about it on The Deciblog, where Kevin Stewart-Panko, The Bravest Man in Metal, asserts that “you gotta love the writer [of the Post article]’s assumption that Korn is so universally loathed that they would help improve cubicle performance everywhere.” Indeed!

-AR