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  • A big F.U. to Christmas Music

    It's the effing 10th of November! Now I realize a lot of retail stores had their muzak changed over to nonstop Christmas music a LONG time ago, but this is ridiculous.

    I don't WANT to be warm and cheery. I spend my day having to dodge/cater to self-entitled uppity douches and even more self-entitled uppity old people, unless it's at night, then the even more self-entitled uppity old people are asleep in their chair or watching Matlock, so then I only have to deal with self-entitled uppity douches, self-entitled, spoiled white high school kids who think they're black, and an endless supply of self-entitled, whiny hunters who get all pouty when I take more than 30 seconds to come from doing REAL work to get on the world's slowest computer to get their oh-so-precious deer tag (which my store doesn't make a DIME off of) and pitch an unholy whiny crying fit whenever they're asked to show their I.D. (It's the LAW numbnuts, now stop being part of the problem and start being part of the solution, show your goddamned I.D. and get the on with it). I DO NOT WANT TO BE WARM AND CHEERY! TIS THE SEASON TO KISS MY @$$!!! If I encounter ONE customer who says either "please," "thank you," or "excuse me" all day, I feel like having a heart attack. NEWSFLASH TO CORPORATE: PIPING IN NON-STOP CHRISTMAS MUSIC ON TOP OF ALL THAT ONLY ADDS TO THE PROBLEM. EXPONENTIALLY.

    EVERY. SINGLE. DAY. for the NEXT TWO MONTHS I will get to hear the exact same 5 Christmas songs over and over again in varying renditions, from white person actually SINGING it, to black person who thinks they are on Soul Train, to upbeat jazz rendition, to random screamer of something that sort of RESEMBLES a Christmas carol but not really, to opera star which is pretty much the same thing, to some random lame-ass accapella choir, and absolutely NO Trans-Siberian Orchestra whatsoever, which is pretty much the ONLY good recorded version of any Christmas carol.

    I'm glad my store no longer sells firearms.
    Think. It's not illegal yet.

  • #2
    Thank goodness I work at a gaming store!! Right now, I think we're listening to Xena cds and Conan cds. I'm not sure if there are any gaming-type-christmas-cds out there, but if there are, we don't have them (yet!)

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    • #3
      I hate to say it, but right around the end of September one of the local radio stations played a Christmas song. I didn't notice it at first, but once I listened it turned out to be one of the common songs just done to a different beat and melody. I personally can't stand Christmas music of any kind, that's why I have satellite radio in my car. They dedicate channels to Christmas and none of the ones I listen to are one of them.

      I'm just soooo looking forward to the radio stations at work to start playing non-stop holiday garbage.
      Suddenly, Vermont became the epicenter of the dystopia.

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      • #4
        I actually like Christmas music... when it's my own selection, played in the comfort of my home, and played at least three days after Thanksgiving. When stores or restaurants pummel you with the stuff? No fun.

        And they never play anything good, anyway! It's always crap like "Holly Jolly Christmas", "Happy Xmas (The War is Over)", or "The Christmas Shoes".

        To quote dear ol' Lewis Black, "I miss the days when Thanksgiving was Thanksgiving... not 'Christmas, Part One'!!"
        "I used to be Snow White... but I drifted."~Mae West

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        • #5
          Thankfully they haven't started the Christmas music at work...yet.

          With my luck, though, I just jinxed it.
          Unseen but seeing
          oh dear, now they're masquerading as sane-KiaKat
          There isn't enough interpretive dance in the workplace these days-Irv
          3rd shift needs love, too
          RIP, mo bhrionglóid

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          • #6
            I love Christmas music, but most of the time when it gets played in stores and restaurants, it's crappy stuff. Thankfully though, my store is still playing their usual 80's music. (Stevie Wonder, etc). I remember my days at Wallyhell well . . . I swore if I was forced to hear "Susie Snowflake" or "Simply Having A Wonderful Christmastime" (seriously, most annoying Christmas song EVER, whether McCartney wrote it or not) one more time, I would pull my hair out.

            I'd much rather have some nice, softer Christmas music, or the old hymns that have been done nicely. Maybe I'm a bit old fashioned, but if it's the sort of stuff that I can listen to and it doesn't make my older customers scowl and complain, then all is right with the world

            I will make an exception to that, however, for Trans-Siberian Orchestra. Good stuff.
            The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.

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            • #7
              idrinkarum, there's a website you can go to, should ytour store be able to access the net, called gamingfm.com, and it streams video game music 24/7

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              • #8
                Well, if it's any consolation, this is a large reason that I shop online for pretty much all my Christmas crap, and any other crap I can get shipped to me this time of year.

                The Christmas shit played before it even gets cool outside literally drives me out of the store. It's not the only reason I avoid stores this time of year, but it's in the top three.

                It ain't that I don't like Christmas music. I like it fine. And I'd like to be able to continue to like it.

                So you can thank your idiot boss on my behalf for encouraging me to stay home in my pajamas while I shop.

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                • #9
                  Well, corporate has forced Christmas music on us in sort of a roundabout way already.

                  To sell artificial Christmas trees, we build displays of certain trees, put them up on a table-like shelf, and put the boxed trees below.

                  Corporate had us requisition a CD boombox from electronics, and CDs of Christmas music. The boombox goes on the table with the trees and plays Christmas music in a repeating loop.

                  And of course it's turned up fairly loud so if you're working near the Christmas trees you hear the Christmas music and not the PA.
                  Knowledge is power. Power corrupts. Study hard. Be evil.

                  "I never said I wasn't a horrible person."--Me, almost daily

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                  • #10
                    I was looking at a website before Halloween and it showed several radio stations that have already switched to Christmas music. That is nuts.

                    As far as my job: I am surrounded by radios, but, none of them play music. They are for two way communications only.

                    Also, I must second GC34's praising of satellite radio. One of the greatest advances in technology, as far as media is concerned.
                    Answers are easy...it is asking the right questions which is hard.

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                    • #11
                      Quoth daleduke17 View Post
                      Also, I must second GC34's praising of satellite radio. One of the greatest advances in technology, as far as media is concerned.
                      You don't know how tempting it is to bring in my satellite radio or iPod for those days when I'm working drive up at the bank. At least when I work with the people my age they'll listen to a decent rock station.
                      Suddenly, Vermont became the epicenter of the dystopia.

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                      • #12
                        God, I already hate Christmas Music. Thank my previous employers for making me have a psychotic hatred of them. FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, PLAY THEM AFTER THANKSGIVING!!

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                        • #13
                          But didn't you know? Halloween is the new Thanksgiving.

                          I'm just not a Christmas-y type of person. Never have been, probably never will be. I don't get any more depressed than usual; I just get kind of anxious. I have to finish the semester (December 10ish) before I even think about Christmas shopping. It usually works out.
                          "If you are planning not to tip, please let your server know before ordering so they can decide whether or not to wait on you" - from an advice column I read some time ago

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                          • #14
                            Quoth DarthRetard View Post
                            idrinkarum, there's a website you can go to, should ytour store be able to access the net, called gamingfm.com, and it streams video game music 24/7
                            Thanks for the info Darth! I'll have to check it out. Didn't know about that.

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                            • #15
                              Quoth GolfCart34 View Post
                              You don't know how tempting it is to bring in my satellite radio or iPod for those days when I'm working drive up at the bank. At least when I work with the people my age they'll listen to a decent rock station.

                              Hopefully your DT window is south-facing and then you can listen to your satellite radio (Sirius, right?) to your heart's content.
                              Answers are easy...it is asking the right questions which is hard.

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