Workplace torture

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 .......