When do Christmas carols at your work start?

[Quillsilver]

Christmas carols haven't started on our store feed yet, but one of my closers started singing Jingle Bells last night and I told him I didn't want to hear ANY Christmas songs until Dec. 1 at the earliest. He pouted the rest of the night...lol

[Ghel]

Luckily, (I think) our sound system is borked, and the company won't pay for a new one.

My husband, on the other hand, works for a company that puts on a festival of lights every year. They start setting up in September. Hubby programs the dancing lights on the giant Christmas tree. They open tonight, but he's already tired of Christmas music.

[BeenThereDoneThat]

Call center, so no music, just some decorations here and there. It will likely get more "festive" after Thanksgiving. I don't mind decorations, or even Christmas music as long as it's in season.

[dragon_wings]

I'm pretty sure the Christmas music started this week. I post in another thread on Monday that I had just noticed the normal music had Christmas music thrown in. Before that? Idk.

I started singing along to a song in front of a customer today and about freaked out. I commented it waaaaay too early to be singing along with the music.

[EricKei]

It would be nice if stores would at least throw something decent into the mix -- say, one Mannheim Steamroller album for every album of "anything else" ^_^

[ADoyle90815]

In my experience, the carols start by December 1st at the latest where I work. In other retail jobs, the carols started playing in early November.

[Carina16]

We only run one desk clerk per shift unless something weird is going on. So thankfully, if I don't like the music, I can turn it off and watch tv. Though, I got a call from the owner saying that he was sending our lobby Christmas tree down with MIL tonight. Personally, I think it's a bit early for any of it, especially a real tree.

[violiavampyr]

They started the first week of November for us. Nothing says Christmas like FIVE different versions of "Last Christmas".

[pzychobitch]

I had mine start the *DAY* after Halloween.

[Kristev]

Same here. But then, since I didn't work there anymore, it wasn't my problem.

[CloserToSane]

Not sure about the Christmas music, the music is hit and miss as to being on and working. But the trees went up today.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

Christmas music started last night. Sort of.

There was a Christmas song here and there interspersed with our normal aural dreck. I expect nothing but Christmas tonight.

The mix seemed a bit more contemporary than it was last year, which would be good.

[violiavampyr]

All Christmas all the time started on Sunday for us. I wish just once Alice's Restaurant would get played. Not a Christmas song, but still a fun song.

[dalesys]

I wish just once Alice's Restaurant would get played.

This Arlo is...

"This song is dedicated to all you bastards out there."
The Pause of Mr. Claus

The song also contains the basal doctrine of The Church Of The Last Guy.

[XCashier]

Christmas Carols will be starting at our shop today. Thankfully, the only music is on a small portable radio/CD player located at the cutting counter. If it gets to be too much, you can always turn it down, then, "Oops, forgot to turn the music on!"

A couple of local stations started playing nothing but Christmas music on November 1st. And it's the usual overplayed crap. Two months straight of that will make me

I think I might bring in some of my CDs: Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Celtic, Mannheim Steamroller, etc. I don't think the Dr. Demento Christmas CD would go down too well with some of our clientele, though.