One year at my store they started playing Christmas music Nov 1 (Normally starts day after Thanksgiving) and ended on Jan 4. Normally I hear each song once a night. But there we multiple versions of songs. Rudolph was the worst there was like 4 versions. I wanted to kill Rudolph by the time it was Christmas. It has been nice the last few years I work nights at there has been no Christmas music at night.
My previous workplace mixed the Christmas songs in with the regular playlist. Made it a lot more tolerable. Although the songs still were bleh.
The week before Halloween, they mixed Halloween songs into the regular playlist. That was cool! You’d hear the themes from The Munsters, The Addams Family and Harry Potter, as well as classics like “Monster Mash” and “Haunted House”.
I work a lot of overnight shifts at the grocery store and one time I decided to listen and see how long it took into Nov 1 for Christmas music to start playing.
Christmas music makes people violent and crazy. They should just stop playing it in the stores, or at least have the decency to have more than 4 songs (not counting alternative versions of those songs). Otherwise, the customers are likely to get hurt.
No Christmas music until at LEAST the day after Thanksgiving, dammit!
Corporate has already disallowed that.
One year at my store they started playing Christmas music Nov 1 (Normally starts day after Thanksgiving) and ended on Jan 4. Normally I hear each song once a night. But there we multiple versions of songs. Rudolph was the worst there was like 4 versions. I wanted to kill Rudolph by the time it was Christmas. It has been nice the last few years I work nights at there has been no Christmas music at night.
This year they went back to all Christmas music. Started day after Thanksgiving and ended Dec 26.
That’s why I’ve come to dislike Christmas music. It’s like there’s only 12 songs on rotation though different artists.
My previous workplace mixed the Christmas songs in with the regular playlist. Made it a lot more tolerable. Although the songs still were bleh.
The week before Halloween, they mixed Halloween songs into the regular playlist. That was cool! You’d hear the themes from The Munsters, The Addams Family and Harry Potter, as well as classics like “Monster Mash” and “Haunted House”.
“My previous workplace mixed the Christmas songs in with the regular playlist. Made it a lot more tolerable.”
Amen to that! HomeGoods did the same. It very much relieved the tedium of hearing 100 different versions of the same 10-20 secular Xmas songs.
I work a lot of overnight shifts at the grocery store and one time I decided to listen and see how long it took into Nov 1 for Christmas music to start playing.
Three minutes.
Christmas music makes people violent and crazy. They should just stop playing it in the stores, or at least have the decency to have more than 4 songs (not counting alternative versions of those songs). Otherwise, the customers are likely to get hurt.
My workplace puts the Christmas music on the week before Christmas. It’s awesome.