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Post by Deleted on Nov 18, 2013 16:18:36 GMT -5
Do they play this where you work? Does it make you want to stab people's eyes out after awhile?
At the orthodontist today they were already streaming the Christmas Music Channel... I was only there for a little over an hour, but it got me thinking, if i had to be in a place that played Christmas music every day for a month +, I don't think it would be good for my psyche...
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Post by Chocolate Lover on Nov 18, 2013 16:22:27 GMT -5
I'm listening to it by choice today, but won't be everyday. I just felt like hearing this one, since it's just me, I can change it when it's over. When I worked in retail it made me stabby.
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Post by sarcasticgirl on Nov 18, 2013 16:27:03 GMT -5
I'm in a large office so no one is playing music for all of us to hear. If they did, heads would roll!
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Post by kittensaver on Nov 18, 2013 16:30:27 GMT -5
Haven't heard it anywhere yet (work, Dr. office, etc) except for one of my (very few) drive-time radio stations. Too bad because most radio stations in my area just yak (and yak and yak and yak . . . endlessly) during drive-time; it's really hard to find decent music (and true to YM I'm too cheap to purchase Sirius or any other radio "services"). So I will just give in and enjoy it . . . even before Thanksgiving.
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Post by sheilaincali on Nov 18, 2013 16:42:30 GMT -5
Not really. My mom plays Christmas carols on her cd player (she's old school) so I can only hear it if I'm in her office and she only works on Monday. In my office I just turn on Pandora and leave it on all day long. I randomly change the station but never to Christmas carols.
Listening to Christmas music all day would definitely make me stabby.
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Post by reader79 on Nov 18, 2013 16:43:39 GMT -5
We play it in the store, they are rotating through six different holiday cd's including a Jewish celebration one. I love that I don't have to be down there all day anymore.
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Post by NancysSummerSip on Nov 18, 2013 16:48:59 GMT -5
No, I hate hearing holiday music 24/7. It makes me want to string up the elves, turn Rudolph into venison and tell Santa to kiss my butt.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 18, 2013 16:58:37 GMT -5
It makes me stabby, too- even the week before Christmas. I'm Christian- I actually observe Christmas- but what annoys me the most are the religious carols played in ridiculous surroundings. The Hallelujah Chrus at the grocery store? (Yes, I did hear that last year.) Please, don't cheapen it that way. I know that they're playing this stuff because someone with a fancy degree told them that it will make people spend more money. Bah, humbug.
Fortunately they don't have piped-in music in my office. Plenty of my coworkers have Sirius or Pandora and whatever they listen to is their business.
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Post by Spellbound454 on Nov 18, 2013 17:16:57 GMT -5
We have it on is when we all get together to decorate the tree.......then its mince pies, Christmas music and brandy. Then there is Carols, concerts, ice skating, parties and taking the little one to see Santa....which will have Christmas music
but that lot is all well into December......I'm not ready yet.
If it goes on too long..... it starts getting irritating.
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Post by greenstone on Nov 18, 2013 18:10:15 GMT -5
Ack! I just got back from the grocery store and the SA bellringers are out already. The music gets a bit much but it is that non-stop tinny bell sound has always made me stabby. I'm afraid one day I may say "oh for the love of God, STOP IT!' out loud instead of just in my head. And it doesn't put me in a giving mood to see a charity giving into the greed of pushing the season earlier and earlier.
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Post by MN-Investor on Nov 18, 2013 18:54:12 GMT -5
I no longer work, but that would drive me crazy.
I have a love/hate relationship with the local radio stations which go all Christmas music for the 4 weeks before Christmas. I have found new favorites by having the stations on. For that, they are worth it. But - good grief! - there are thousands of artists having recorded hundreds of thousands of Christmas songs. You would think that a radio station could literally play Christmas songs for 24 hours straight without repeating a single one. Instead they all have the same small playlist which is repeated ad nauseam!
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Post by sesfw on Nov 18, 2013 19:23:02 GMT -5
A station here has already started Christmas music (?) 24/7 but I usually still listen to the classic station. PBS
I listened to the Christmas station one day but they were playing all the 5th rate performers and it was awful. If I'm going to listen to music, I want music not noise.
Back to PBS.
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Post by justme on Nov 18, 2013 21:34:56 GMT -5
I hated when I worked in a drug store. All year round the music was a repeat...no new songs added except Christmas times. I learned all the words to some awful songs there. <<shudder>>
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Post by TheOtherMe on Nov 18, 2013 22:08:59 GMT -5
I am listening to a station that is playing Christmas songs in my car, but that is my choice.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 19, 2013 4:08:48 GMT -5
No music at work but I sneak some cd's in the week before Christmas and play them quietly. No one else can hear them unless they are right at my desk.
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Post by wvugurl26 on Nov 19, 2013 7:50:49 GMT -5
When I worked in public accounting they had a local radio station playing through the speakers in the office. I believe they did wait until Thanksgiving to play Christmas music but even then it made me stabby to hear the same damn songs every day.
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Post by thyme4change on Nov 19, 2013 8:06:39 GMT -5
Do they play this where you work? Does it make you want to stab people's eyes out after awhile? At the orthodontist today they were already streaming the Christmas Music Channel... I was only there for a little over an hour, but it got me thinking, if i had to be in a place that played Christmas music every day for a month +, I don't think it would be good for my psyche... I spent two days listening to my co-worker arrange her son's college schedule on the phone. I think there are annoyances at all workplaces.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 19, 2013 8:40:53 GMT -5
We have a station that started playing Christmas music on November 1st! I banned it from my house until Thanksgiving...the kids have been having fun tuning the radio to that station and then calling me into the room. Dayum I love those little buggers!!
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Post by zibazinski on Nov 19, 2013 8:53:21 GMT -5
My fave r and r station started playing this crap lready and now I'm channel surfing for other stations that I don't like as well.
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Post by Formerly SK on Nov 19, 2013 10:07:51 GMT -5
DD(7) has been playing Christmas music as she falls asleep for about a week now. She's also requested we get our decorations up and was upset when I pointed out it was barely past Halloween.
She's growing up to be a good little American.
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Post by NomoreDramaQ1015 on Nov 19, 2013 10:58:27 GMT -5
Instead they all have the same small playlist which is repeated ad nauseam!
Ours does that too. In the 35 minute drive to my BIL's house we heard Paul McCartney singing "Wonderful Christmas Time" at least 3 times. When round #3 started I made DH change the station before I put my fist thru the dashboard.
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Post by Phoenix84 on Nov 19, 2013 13:30:04 GMT -5
I work alone in an office, so there's no music whatsoever unless I play it.
It did get annoying back in the day when I worked retail. It does seem a bit early to play Christmas music.
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Post by Sum Dum Gai on Nov 19, 2013 13:46:46 GMT -5
Christmas music prior to Thanksgiving makes me stabby. It's marginally better between Thanksgiving and Christmas. After Christmas it makes me stabby again.
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