Inspired by the Customer Service Rant and Holiday Mini-Rant already open, I had to share my customer-service-job-related and hardly-mini rant on Christmas Music.
ARRGH ! I fucking hate Christmas music because of four years of working in malls. There is no more effective way to sap the joy of the season from the lives of badly-paid workers than by incessantly playing Christmas carols, over and over and over and over again. There’s only a limited number of carols, people - and the new ones that people write are CRAP (I do not want to hear an ‘original carol’ by Mariah Fucking Carey), the reason we have the same carols year after year is because they’re GOOD. The first time you hear it in the season, and the second, maybe up to the fifth. But twenty times in one day is much too many times to hear Alvin and the Chipmunks warbling O Holy Night. I still get nightmares about being in a mall in December.
(This year was the worst in a while: I was in a coffee shop in a heavily Jewish area, in NOVEMBER, that was already off and running.)
But, don’t lose heart: I read the best news in a long time this morning (from here)
Sol-Sol-Sol ! Solidarity ! I have never had better reason to support a union. Global movement, anyone?
I hear you, cowgirl. I worked retail for five long, hellish Christmas Seasons. EVERY ONE OF THEM was right across the aisle from THE CHRISTMAS SECTION of our department store. I could deal with Bing warbling about White Christmases along with his Backup Whistlers, Madonna seducing Santa-Baby to Hurry Down The Chimney, and so forth…but when they put up an entire display to advertise their new Christmas Lights That Play Christmas Carols (really badly, I might add, and in a cheezy tinny HORRIBLE bad-midi kind of way) And Blink In Time With The Current Carol…I knew I couldn’t last another season of that crap.
I worked retail as a kid and had a 75 minute Christmas loop playing everyday throughout my shift.
While I did somewhat tire of that specific tape, I didn’t lose my enthusiasm for any other Christmas music.
To this day I can’t get enough of it. I listen to Christmas songs on my way to work, hum them in my head all day and then listen to them at night.
You can take out your aggressions on me. I seem to be the polar opposite of your situation.
Bubba
[SIZE=1] Barking dog jingle bell does suck though.
I love a few Christmas songs, but most are so sappy that they induce insulin shock. Having to be subjected to it for 8 hours a day should be considered a violation of human rights by OSHA.
I hate Holiday Music. I worked retail for two christmas, and now christmas music induces suicidal/homicidal tendencies, depending on what kind of mood i was in originally.
I currently have Jingle Bells stuck in my head, and I didn’t even work today. I may commit violent acts if I hear All I Want For Christmas Is You again. It was kind of funny- they were playing Christmas music in a couple of goth/punk stores I was in today. There’s something odd about listening to All I want For Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth while surrounded by leather and chains.
I used to love Christmas. I’m a Christian, and lots of traditional carols have great words and interesting theology, but in spite of that they’re still driving me nuts. I hate Mariah Carey, I hate Barbara Streisand sings Christmas, and I hate stupid cutesy annoying music!
Sorry about that. Working tomorrow. Not looking forward to it.
When I was a kid, my mother and I would only listen to Christmas music on Christmas day, and sometimes Christmas eve. I thought that this is what all families did until when one time, talking to her about it, she mentioned that a tradition that we did. This kind of pissed me off because I love Christmas music and found out that I was being deprived of listening to more of it because of something my mother made up. Well, that, and the fact I obviously was a stupid kid for thinking that that’s how everybody did it .
We don’t have any figgy fucking pudding, fucktards, so stop asking for it. If we did have any, we’d only bring it to you to throw in your face. Now shut up and go away.
