I work in retail and...

The store has started their irritating Christmas music. It isn't just the jingle-bells-and-Santa kind of music; it's full out hymns.

Between that and the consumer message, I want to walk from department to department singing The Internationale.

Call it a Commie carol.

Tucker

I mean they could at LEAST play the cool Christmas music. Or the songs that are jazzier versions of old Christmas songs, etc.

I like the hymn-like ones, ok, but not ALL the time. And retail? I'd rather be eaten by fire ants.

Best of luck to ya! I don't go near a mall from mid-November through mid-January!

But I don't have any degrees yet, and jobs are scarce, so I'm stuck in retail until after I graduate.

They could also balance the Jesus-hymns with some Hanukkah songs. But they don't. This is the same company whose internal newsletter recently featured "leadership lessons of the Reagan years."

Tucker

"Deutschland, Deutschland, Ueber Alles"

You have my sympathy. I hate Christmas music.

He played a tape that had "JESUS IS THE REASON! THE REASON FOR THE SEASON!" on it.

I was ready to kill. Or die. I didn't care which.

better than what the local Red Lobster plays...RAP carols at top volume.

it'll be too soon.

There are a handful of seasonal songs that are secular-- "Winter Wonderland" and "Jingle Bells" come to mind. The Hanukkah songs I'm aware of all kinda suck, either too childish (the "Dreidel song") or too obviously hymn-like ("Maos Tzur," a/k/a "Rock of Ages"). I don't know what the Kwanzaa music is like-- they may still be composing it as we speak.

But they're all considerably irritating.

My worst experience of it was the time I got to go to Hong Kong, 20 years ago. The island is just a hive of entrepreneurism, old-style craftspeople cheek-by-jowl with teensy little sweatshop factories churning out toys and gewgaws for Western consumption. The hot product this particular year was plastic ornaments that would play a Christmas medley produced by a chip, half a dozen familiar melodies strung clumsily together in monophonic Casio-quality sound, and each melody had one glaring error. And the same damned chip was playing on every block! My wife was watching me walk down the street and cringe at the same set of errors, repeated over and over and over the whole time we were there.

And the main leadership lesson of the Reagan years is still with us today: "Whatever you're doing, do it with somebody else's money!"

run over by a reindeer. WORST Christmas song EVER!! Twelve days of Christmas.. ARGH! I am soooo not into Christmas! While I enjoy the Christmas story, from the Bible, I HATE the commercialism behind it all. Its disgusting.

serious, that should hit public domain NOW

I work as a delivery driver for a drugstore with piped-in music. Thankfully, I spend much of my day on the road, where I can pop whatever I want into my truck's CD player. But since Friday, any time I've been in the store, I hear the same white-bread bullshit Christmas music that radio has been shoving down our throats for as long as I can remember. I swear, if I hear "Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer" one more fucking time, somebody's going to die! :grr:

Mind you, that's not to say that I hate *all* Christmas music. Quite the contrary! Click here for an idea of what I like to play during the holiday season:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x2098272

I work at Walgreens. I'm the makeup monkey.

Tucker

It's a franchise, supposedly with 1,200 stores all over the world. I've only ever seen the one I work at, though. :shrug: