Workplace torture

lalababa

It happens all year round...retail manager plays the same cd on a loop all day. Worse cd things happen at Christmas.

Could these practices be viewed as illegal torture. I think they did similar in military breakdown inducing torture at Gauntanimo Bay.

My local Central petrol station plays music on a tanoy outside. And turns it up when there's something going on in the town.

silliussoddius

Tanoi is just a brand name. It’s a public address system.

Sky King

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118257533#Comment_118257533

How do you know that wasn't the brand being used?

Gregor Samsa

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118257684#Comment_118257684

It couldn't possibly be, because the company is called Tannoy (https://www.tannoy.com/). It's totally and utterly preposterous to claim they were using either a Tanoy or Tanoi system for such purposes. This thread has lost all credibility, despite the solid parallels between Centra and Guantanamo Bay.

o1s1n

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118257533#Comment_118257533

I take it you follow through and don't use any of the following trademarks as words in your general lexicon to describe things.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_generic_and_genericized_trademarks

I also take it you're absolutely zero fun at parties.

magicbastarder

this thread is very tannoying.

magicbastarder

christ, that was woeful, even by my standards.

Donald Trump

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118257713#Comment_118257713

I always get those two mixed up to be fair. Could happen to a bishop............some funny stories from the Whitehouse days though when I used to tell a staffer to go to Guantanmo to get me a chicken fillet roll and packet of Tayto and they'd arrive back 3 days later with it.

Similar thing happened with the Kenyan. He promised to close Guantamo but that was only because he preferred Spar and had also confused Guantanamo with Centra.

whisky_galore

Players and cables have a habit of getting 'broken'...

Trigger Happy

I think ye are all missing the main point of the thread.

What is the CD that is getting played on the loop that is driving you around the loop OP?

Donald Trump

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118257762#Comment_118257762

What?????

We never knew you had standards

😋

Padre_Pio

I have the lyrics for an entire Rod Stewart concert CD etched in my brain for eternity

Donald Trump

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118257828#Comment_118257828

A big fan of the rod?

Padre_Pio

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118257831#Comment_118257831

This old heart of mine got the Rod every day from early November to Christmas eve. I don't want to talk about it.

Donald Trump

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118257853#Comment_118257853

You wouldn't be the first person whose heart was broken by someone else who was only concerned with the rod.

silliussoddius

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118257747#Comment_118257747

It was an Alan Partridge reference which you didn’t get. Now who do you think is more fun at parties. Needless to say, I had the last laugh.

dxhound2005

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058220868/workplace-torture

They are psychopaths.

Michael Buble is verrrry bad. Nice fella I'd say, bless him, but his music is just - oh dear, not one redeeming feature.

Sky King

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118257713#Comment_118257713

How do you know it's not a cheap asian Tannoy knock-off called Tanoi, made in Hanoi?

dxhound2005

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2QWDHjoLyo

silliussoddius

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118257997#Comment_118257997

He can sell out concert venues. Not a dry seat in the house.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118258102#Comment_118258102

Bland is huge.

magicbastarder

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118258102#Comment_118258102

i didn't know his audience was that old?

85603

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118257952#Comment_118257952

Its tannoi.

Not tannoys. Thats saaaad.

cml387

Insights bursting all round.

I regularly used to listen to Radio Luxembourg at night on my old Spidola

Dial Hard

I used to work in Champion Sports back in the day and head office sent a CD of the same mix to all stores once a month or so. You'd be driven demented within the first week listening to the same 10-or-so songs, in the same order, on rotation all day every day. We used to have a smashing ceremony on the last day for each CD.

The year I was there for Christmas we smashed the Christmas CD the second the store closed on Christmas Eve. Only to be informed by our next-nearest branch that we were supposed to play it til January 6th. Oopsie. That was actually my last day in the job so I've no idea if they had to ask head office for a new one and make up some excuse for what happened to the original or what.

If a CD was particularly bad, we'd just play our own music (strictly verboten) and have a mole in the O'Connell St. store ring us if any of the head honchos looked like they were heading our way.

Potential-Monke

Just gonna ignore the first 15 odd posts ignoring the main question of the post...

Luckily, I've never worked someone at Christmas and had to listen to non-stop Christmas songs. That would actually do my nut in. I'm not a fan of Christmas anymore, too commercialised and starts waaaaaaay too early. But the songs... Aside from a few, most are terrible and hearing them on repeat, ad nauseam could drive me to quitting.

I worked in a restaurant once, 2 floors and the upstairs was only opened during lunch and when evenings were expected to be busy. So once lunch was over, it needed a full clean and set for the evening. This was usually done by 1 person. I had to do it a few times. One time, he had a fecking David Gray CD on. I was genuinely ready to kill myself. The most depressing cnut I've ever listened to, and since then you can add Paddy somethingorother, basically Irish David Gray. How people enjoy that tripe is beyond me. Music to kill yourself to.

I see lots of shops banning Christmas songs because it 100% affects staff morale. Even those who love Christmas would surely get sick of listening to the same 40 odd songs on repeat, every day, all day... Or even worse, a copyright friendly version that's cheaper and sang by people rejected from the initial culling phase of American Idol.

Then again, I consider work torture anyway so...

Quantum Erasure

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARq6uYSsUq0

,,,

Potential-Monke

Ah, let's not inflict more torture on the people of this thread by posting crap Christmas crap!

John_Rambo

I really feel for retail staff, particularly this time of the year and they're mostly so so professional and polite. I don't know how they do it, all we can do is be as polite and patient as they are in our dealings with them.

Regarding the opening post, I 100% agree xmas cd's and playlists since halloween are tortuous and unfair. They shouldn't be allowed till after the first weekend in December.

dxhound2005

Torturous and tortuous. It gets worse.

mojesius

I worked 7 Christmases in the same restaurant. There was one Christmas CD that would be stuck on from late November until early January. Mariah Carey was the first song, Wham next, then Shakin Stevens followed by equally shite overplayed Xmas shite. The CD was 2 hours long so you'd hear it multiple times during your shift.

You couldn't even bring in your own Christmas CDs for some variety as the CD player was programmed to only play head office specially selected CDs, normal CDs wouldn't work.

It was sheer torture.

Potential-Monke

Any company that still does the above needs to be taken to court for crimes against humanity.

John_Rambo

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118274563#Comment_118274563

Sorry, forgot you were the Spelling Cee champion.

riclad

It must be torture to listen to the same cds for 2 weeks even if you like Christmas music. Tannoy can be used to refer to any public adress system using speakers even if its made of components made by a some random company i think most places should not have music in the background apart from music shops which are almost all gone apart from golden discs

riclad

storker

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118274608#Comment_118274608

"Head office-selected Christmas CDs"...now that's what I call Christmas spirit. 🙄

Putting the list together was probably the high point of some head office munchkin's year.

Quantum Erasure

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118275595#Comment_118275595

...now that's what I call Christmas...

NOW that's what I call Christmas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHnCcRrcz04

Sgt Hartman

I was in Malahide two Saturdays ago and there was large speakers on poles pumping out Christmas tunes on the main street. One tune in particular was an appalling copyright friendly version of So here it is Merry Christmas by Slade. I thought it was a disgrace because the music couldn't be avoided by anyone on the street unless they had noise cancelling headphones. The music was just being inflicted on people who were on the main street. Whoever came up with the decision to do that would want to cop themselves on. It was the same at the Bremore Castle crafts market in Balbriggan the next day, just a big speaker up belting out Christmas tunes that the customers and stall owners couldn't avoid.

Jeremy Sproket

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118257713#Comment_118257713

Who said Centra??????

greenspurs

Bah humbugs .......