Early Christmas Music Hell

This just in from Kerry:

Ugh! I wanna cry and/or stab my eardrums with a sharp object.

Christmas music!!

It started on Wednesday the 4th!

This year they didn't even bother to start slow or sneak a couple in there every once in a while.

It is literally every other goddamn song.

All the Christmas decoration...s are up, all the commercials and announcements are "holiday themed," and our store hours have already extended, sometimes to effing midnight.

Kill me please!

 

Comments

[atombomb1945]

Silly girl, Christmas starts in July. That is when all the toy commercials start playing. I know when the season starts when I see the newest "baby done wet herself" gets advertised.

[Spritzy]

Ohnoes! We've had holiday ads on TV since the start of October. I even saw upcomning ad fliers in our office for...*brr* BLACK FRIDAY! augh! *cries* I'd love being able to wear all black on Black Friday....it's definatly a day for mourning.

[Tony]

I feel your pain Kerry.

[N/A]

One year we tried to mix it up by switching to the hannukah station instead of the christmas one after a few weeks of the same songs over and over again. Some total azzhole complained 3 songs in so my manager changed it back. Nothing like a little religious intolerance to make the holiday season bright.

[Library Diva]

I actually once worked somewhere that had a lovely Christmas loop. It was nice and lengthy, about an hour or so, and it was all instrumental versions of only the pretty Christmas songs. Lots of harps, flutes, strings, things like that. I actually wanted a copy for myself.

When I came back the following year,though, it had been changed to some godawful 1950s overly cheery mess. They were even censored: the people in the song "suddenly" said goodnight, so your dirty mind wouldn't imagine why it might have taken a while. Ugh! I was told that there were complaints about the other loop, since it featured "religious" music (with no words).

[Laurel]

I heard Xmas music in a local Walgreen's on the 1st. It was, in fact, early enough on the 1st that the sun wasn't up yet. While I was in line a man came up to the counter and asked, "Y'all's Holloween candy on sale yet?"

I was standing in line behind a cop who seemed to think she could name her own price for film developing. The clerk kept trying to help by asking "Did someone tell you seven? Is there a sign or a coupon or...?" And the cop just kept saying "It's supposed to be seven." Cop finally paid actual price and left.

Retail workers who don't hit people have my admiration and respect. I did hard time in Kinko's many years ago and this site, while hilarious, is downright triggering at times.

[Retail Drone #37]

Wegmans already had their Christmas stuff up by the 1st or 2nd, but I haven't heard any Christmas music yet, thank God. Yeah, I've always wondered why all the music has to be the standard "Christian" holiday music. Is there a law that says you can't play holiday music from other holidays around Christmas?

Most of the decorations I see in stores are based around the Christmas characters like Santa. I haven't seen a dreidel in sight. How unfair.

[BMS]

Wow, I just had a flashback.
I used to work at a museum that had a 'Christmas Around the World' exhibit every year. One year they had a 90 minute tape loop of Christmas songs that played constantly, all day, 8 hours a day or longer on special event nights. It meant that every 90 minutes, you had to hear the Chipmunk's Christmas Song. Every. 90. Minutes. I am pretty sure that the Geneva Convention strictly forbids this form of torture.

We had one awesome supervisor who would turn the music way down most days. Unfortunately, one day he came in and cranked to the the max allowable volume. His reason "I broke up with my girlfriend last night. I am pissed and hungover and EVERYONE IS GOING TO SUFFER WITH ME." We all spent the day verbally bitchslapping his girlfriend for doing this to us.

[___]

After 2 months of Christmas Music, I don't allow anyone to play it when I'm around, even though it is the week of Christmas. There's one station on the radio here that is playing Christmas music constantly (I avoid that station which left me with 3 other stations I liked to listen to.) Now, another station is playing Christmas music. That leaves me with 2 stations... God I wish I had a CD player / my cigarette lighter worked so I could use my iPod! No more Christmas Music!!!!!!!!!