It Was Working Yesterday | Office IT Comedy Pop-Rock Song

“It Was Working Yesterday” is an upbeat early-2000s pop-rock comedy song about office IT chaos, broken printers, frozen screens, dead Wi-Fi, mysterious cables, password problems, Outlook disasters, and the legendary sentence every IT person knows too well: “I did nothing.” A funny and painfully relatable workplace anthem for the people who keep the company alive with one Ethernet cable, too much coffee, and a smile that says “I am calm but not okay.” Lyrics: I walked into the office, coffee in my hand The network light was blinking like it lost the land Someone said, “Good morning,” with a haunted face “The system’s down again, can you check this place?” I asked, “What happened?” They said, “Nothing, I swear” Then I saw ten cables flying through the air A router on the carpet, a switch on the tray And one guy saying, “It was working yesterday” Ya zalame, every morning, same ballet One small click and the world goes grey They call my name like I’m holding the sun But nobody touched it, not even one It was working yesterday That’s what everybody say Now the screen is turning grey And the server ran away It was working yesterday “I did nothing, by the way” Only clicked one thing today Now the printer starts to pray She said, “My Outlook’s broken, I cannot send mail” I checked the outbox, fifty photos failed A wedding video, fifteen megabytes And “Please approve” written twenty-seven times He said, “My Wi-Fi’s weak, I can barely breathe” While standing in the basement under concrete trees I said, “Move closer,” he said, “No way” “Because here it worked yesterday” Ya habibi, I am calm but not okay Every ticket has a little cabaret They call it urgent, then they disappear Till I close the case, then they reappear It was working yesterday That’s what everybody say Now the screen is turning grey And the server ran away It was working yesterday “I did nothing, by the way” Only clicked one thing today Now the printer starts to pray The printer says “paper jam,” but there is no paper The scanner wants a driver from nineteen years later The toner is empty, the tray is astray But yes, my friend, it was working yesterday The mouse is wireless, the battery is dead The keyboard has coffee under Z, X, and Red He said, “Can you fix it in a professional way?” I said, “Sir, it needs rice and a priest today” And then the boss walks in with the royal stare “Why is IT always fixing air?” I show him the logs, the truth, the decay He says, “But Charbel, it was working yesterday” I smile like a saint with a firewall soul Half man, half cable, half damage control I breathe in deep, let the madness play Welcome to IT, where logic runs away It was working yesterday That’s what everybody say Now the screen is turning grey And the server ran away It was working yesterday “I did nothing, by the way” Only clicked one thing today Now the printer starts to pray Someone changed the password, then forgot the change Someone named a file “final-final-new-arrange” Someone pulled the plug to charge their phone Then asked why the database died alone The camera is purple, the phone won’t ring The VPN is crying, the updates sing Excel has frozen in a dramatic way But don’t worry, it was working yesterday “I didn’t touch it” “Who touched it?” “Not me” “Then why is the cable in your tea?” “I didn’t click it” “What did it say?” “Free invoice download” “Allah ykhallik, pray” It was working yesterday That’s what everybody say Now the screen is turning grey And the server ran away It was working yesterday “I did nothing, by the way” Only clicked one thing today Now the printer starts to pray So if you see me walking slowly through the hallway Holding one cable and losing my faith Don’t ask me why I look this way I was working yesterday Credits: Song & lyrics: Immortal Genesis Music: assisted original production Artwork: Immortal Genesis From the Immortal Genesis music collection. #ItWasWorkingYesterday #ITGuySong #OfficeComedy #HelpdeskLife #TechSupport #PopRockComedy #WorkplaceAnthem #ITProblems #OfficeChaos #ImmortalGenesis