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  • OMG Christmas music...

    I went to work on Friday and got blasted with this realization of holiday horror, and on SuperHeavyRotation to boot. Not once every four or five songs, like normal, but more like four or five Christmas songs to every normal song. Ugh.

    I really feel badly, because I know so many people actually like this time of year, but I have been in retail long enough that I associate the music, especially the really crappy songs they play at my store, with, well, the store, and the job, and the claustrophobic clusterfuck of mercandise that threatens to swallow me whole everytime I walk into my backroom.

    And it's not just THAT the music is playing, but it's also the fact that we have about seven versions of each of about seven songs. I get tired of hearing Frosty the Snowman and Rudolph the Reindeer every five minutes.

    I try to block it out. I just think it's a bit early to have that much music going on. It seriously makes me want to shoot myself every time I get in my car at the end of my shift. (I'm not much of a Christmas person anyway, never was, probably never will be.)

    Ok, rant over. Here's the question... Is there any way possible I can survive another holiday at Meijer without going crazy? I had the doc increase my prozac, but not sure how much that will actually do to make it easier.

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    Sing counter-songs all day. Write them and make them up. It's how I get through.
    Customers should always be served . . . to the nearest great white.

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    • #3
      I hate this time of year.
      Retail Haiku:
      Depression sets in.
      The hellhole is calling me ~
      I don't want to go.

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      • #4
        Come work with me. We don't have any music.
        "Is it hot in here to you? It's very warm, isn't it?"--Nero, probably

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        • #5
          Wish there was a law that Christmas music can only be played from Thankgiving day till New Years Eve. Then maybe people wouldn't mind it so much.

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          • #6
            Wish there was a law where holiday music can be performed only at private homes, and only for a maximum of 2 hours out of every 24.
            Customers should always be served . . . to the nearest great white.

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            • #7
              Quoth Brojekk View Post
              Wish there was a law that Christmas music can only be played from Christmas Eve till Christmas Day.
              Fixed it for you.
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              • #8
                What, not at least the twelve days of Christmas? (Which btw starts with the evening of 12-24 and ends at the evening of 1-5--people don't seem to get the fact that Christmas day is supposed to be the beginning of the holiday not the end of it.)
                "Who loves not women, wine, and song remains a fool his whole life long" ~Martin Luther
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                • #9
                  I've always thought it'd be hilarious to get into the system & put on Bob Rivers' Twisted Christmas.
                  "If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you.This is the principal difference between a man and a dog"

                  Mark Twain

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                  • #10
                    Quoth SuperDan View Post
                    What, not at least the twelve days of Christmas? (Which btw starts with the evening of 12-24 and ends at the evening of 1-5--people don't seem to get the fact that Christmas day is supposed to be the beginning of the holiday not the end of it.)
                    Uh, what about the 12 STIs of Christmas?

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                    • #11
                      Quoth Food Lady View Post
                      Come work with me. We don't have any music.
                      Same here. I feel bad for anybody that has to go through hearing all that Christmas music all freakin' day and night. I'd go apeshit if I had to go through that.
                      I don't get paid enough to kiss your a**! -Groezig 5/31/08
                      Another day...another million braincells lost...-Sarlon 6/16/08
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                      • #12
                        Quoth BeeMused View Post
                        Uh, what about the 12 STIs of Christmas?

                        NSFW!!!
                        and in a similar vein - Monty Python's Medical Love Song

                        Also very NSFW, at least when not wearing earphones...

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                        • #13
                          I think I got through last season by singing "Christmas at Ground Zero" and "The Night Santa Went Crazy" by Weird Al and "A Christmas Carol" by Tom Lehrer under my breath all season. One of my managers caught the lyrics to that last one at one point, so I had to sing the whole thing for her. I also spent half the season begging the managers to let me hook my ipod into the PA system so that we could have REAL Christmas music in the store instead of the recycled tunes. A little Trans-Siberian Orchestra never hurt anyone...
                          Last edited by LadyAndreca; 11-15-2010, 10:26 PM.
                          It's little things that make the difference between 'enjoyable', 'tolerable', and 'gimme a spoon, I'm digging an escape tunnel'.

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                          • #14
                            Quoth Becks View Post
                            Fixed it for you.
                            Nah...that's okay. If something not broke don't fix it. Some of us like Christmas music "in December only though"

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                            • #15
                              Today at work my manager got so upset at the radio station playing entirely christmas music that she changed it to a rock music channel. She HATES rock music.
                              "If we refund your money, give you a free replacement and shoot the manager, then will you be happy?" - sign seen in a restaurant

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