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    Christmas music at work

    This is for everyone who works in a store that plays Christmas music to share their horror stories. Luckily, I have now escaped that horror, cuz in the petrol station we just play the radio, but back in the supermarket, the horror was ongoing. A CD of Christmas songs looped continuously used to make me lose the will to live. What makes me laugh is when I read about shoppers moaning about hearing it everywhere, when they're the lucky ones who can leave the store after an hour or so. The poor workers have to listen to it all day. One place I used to work put it on on September 1st.

    Any more stories of Christmas horror music?
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    Except the radio doesn't stop you from hearing Christmas music. I think the worst I ever dealt with was when Santa was visiting. Real sweet for the families, however Santa played a 20-minute loop of Xmas music and that was pretty grating by the end of my shift. Still, that was only one workday, and during the rest of the year, the front end was too noisy for me to pay attention to background music.
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    • #3
      Yes, the radio does play Christmas music, but my point is that it's a) mixed up with normal music and b) something that can be switched off if we get sick of it.
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      • #4
        On Thanksgiving Eve at midnight the store played the first Christmas song and after it was over I went on the paging system and said to the whole store it was too early for Christmas music.

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        • #5
          I used to love Christmas music, in small doses, BEFORE my retail days. Ten holiday seasons in retail will make you hate it fast. Each year there would be new music, and always a few songs that we'd cringe or make fun of endlessly when they came one.

          The most memorable (and i still don't get WHY its considered a holiday song) was a 17 minutes (yes we timed it!) horrible, jazzy rendition of "My Favorite Things" from The Sound of Music.

          We also had Nat King Cole's "Happiest Christmas Tree"and that horrible horrible earworm of Bing Crosby's Mele Kalikimaka (Hawaiian Christmas Song).

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          • #6
            We don't have to endure music at my current job, because it would be rather distracting to the customers calling the IT Service Desk.

            Having to listen to holiday music at the wholesale club steadily eroded my holiday spirit to the point it never truly recovered, though. I'm essentially the Grinch of the office because I despise having decorations on my cubicle and often threaten to (but thus far haven't) tear them down and throw them out.

            At this point, though, I do it as much to get a rise out of my more spirited coworkers. Threatening to take a pair of scissors to the garlands... unplugging the lights when they aren't paying attention...
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            • #7
              We have music but it's so soft that I only really notice it occasionally, usually in the bathroom if I'm alone. It would distract us while on the phones. So I have no idea if any seasonal music has played. Probably. At the retail we've never had music. huh
              "Is it hot in here to you? It's very warm, isn't it?"--Nero, probably

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              • #8
                We can't have music at work as we're on the phones all day. Just as well. Every store I walk into is playing the same stuff.
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                • #9
                  I wouldn't mind music in the store if it weren't for the fact that everybody else there is MUCH younger than I am ... and the volume at which the music is played shows it. On the bright side, when the Grumpy Old Bat (that'd be me) asks (politely) for them to please turn the volume down, they always do. Pretty sure they're happy now that I'm only working two days a week ...

                  When it comes to insanity-inducing repetitive Christmas music, I sympathize. I do like it, but not the same damn songs over and over and over ...

                  Last time I was in we weren't playing "seasonal" music, but if we ever do, I'd be strongly tempted to find some way to slip a series of my own favourites in there ... starting with "Christmas at Ground Zero" by Weird Al.
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                  • #10
                    At my job, Christmas music started sometime on Thanksgiving.

                    It usually starts at every third or fifth song, then eventually every other song, and then it goes every song until sometime between Christmas and New Year's when TPTB take pity on what's left of my sanity.
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                    • #11
                      Local radio station started "all day, all the time" Christmas Music sometime before 8pm on Wednesday. It's the station my boss turns on every year at this time. I do believe there are only about 50 different Christmas songs, even if you include stuff like Snoopy's Christmas (snoopy and the red baron), Crabs for Christmas (don't know if that one gets played outside Md), or I wanna Hippopotamus for Christmas. And songs that are not really Christmas songs, like Baby it's cold outside. So you end up with 20 or more different versions of the same songs. Do you know how many different people have recorded Rudolph the Red nosed raindeer. Everybody from Bing Crosby to RuPaul.

                      In 1 10 hour shift I heard "so this is christmas" 3 times, Hippopotomous 2 times and at least 4 versions of Santa clause is coming to town. 10 hours per night -- 4 nights per week. I will be so sick of Christmas at least a week before it gets here.

                      Sorry for the rant.

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                      • #12
                        My sympathies, and much as I love this time of year, I mean that sincerely. There are all kinds of other seasonal songs that could be played (not even including the snarky ones), but I guess nobody wants to deviate from the Usual Suspects.
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                        • #13
                          Quoth judecat View Post
                          Local radio station started "all day, all the time" Christmas Music sometime before 8pm on Wednesday. It's the station my boss turns on every year at this time. I do believe there are only about 50 different Christmas songs, even if you include stuff like Snoopy's Christmas (snoopy and the red baron), Crabs for Christmas (don't know if that one gets played outside Md), or I wanna Hippopotamus for Christmas. And songs that are not really Christmas songs, like Baby it's cold outside. So you end up with 20 or more different versions of the same songs. Do you know how many different people have recorded Rudolph the Red nosed raindeer. Everybody from Bing Crosby to RuPaul.

                          In 1 10 hour shift I heard "so this is christmas" 3 times, Hippopotomous 2 times and at least 4 versions of Santa clause is coming to town. 10 hours per night -- 4 nights per week. I will be so sick of Christmas at least a week before it gets here.

                          Sorry for the rant.
                          My town used to have a radio station just like that here in my area. They started the All Xmas songs ALL THE TIME on November 1st to continue until midnight on December 31st. AND the gas station chain I worked for MANDATED we all play this station starting on November 1st. So for 2 WHOLE months we were subjected to for our 8 hour shifts to a VERY short playlist of Xmas music with ALL the versions of each and every song by 200 different singers/artists/musicians.

                          This is one of the reasons I now dispise Xmas music. I used to love Xmas music. Now shot me please when I have to go into a store.
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                          • #14
                            No Christmas music for me unless that's what the radio in the plant is playing, and it never is.

                            Quoth judecat View Post
                            Crabs for Christmas
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                            • #15
                              Quoth judecat View Post
                              Local radio station started "all day, all the time" Christmas Music sometime before 8pm on Wednesday. It's the station my boss turns on every year at this time. I do believe there are only about 50 different Christmas songs, even if you include stuff like Snoopy's Christmas (snoopy and the red baron), Crabs for Christmas (don't know if that one gets played outside Md), or I wanna Hippopotamus for Christmas. And songs that are not really Christmas songs, like Baby it's cold outside. So you end up with 20 or more different versions of the same songs. Do you know how many different people have recorded Rudolph the Red nosed raindeer. Everybody from Bing Crosby to RuPaul.

                              In 1 10 hour shift I heard "so this is christmas" 3 times, Hippopotomous 2 times and at least 4 versions of Santa clause is coming to town. 10 hours per night -- 4 nights per week. I will be so sick of Christmas at least a week before it gets here.

                              Sorry for the rant.
                              My old store had that too, only it was CDs we were sent by corporate. I think we had three different versions of Feliz Navidad, and multiple versions over the years of various songs. OMG ENOUGH

                              add to that the volume corporate insisted we play the music at.

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