I'm going back even further than that to when Marc Almond got all disappointed outside the Pink Flamingo in 1982.

Working in Software Engineering can be pretty melancholy if your ducks aren't lining up, as it were. Here are some of Soft Cell's Lyrics for "Say Hello, Wave Goodbye" as, to me, it says something to be about the relationship between a progressive engineer and an employer that doesn't really care,

"Take your hands off me, hey

I don't belong to you, you see

And take a look in my face, for the last time,

I never knew you, you never knew me,

Say hello goodbye,

Say hello and wave goodbye"