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Hell NO!
I'm about 15 minutes away from going bananas. Prepping for a meeting and half of us are trying to wrap up the year whilst the rest are like toddlers.
That would be grounds for a fair beating without recriminations from HR if I had my way. Absolutely hell no.
Currently a bit of Dirty Vegas in the background in my (home) office.
Yes, get into it, don't fight it. Obviously there is Christmas music and there is Christmas music
Pretenders, Pogues, other P-bands....
I'm sitting with my back to the wall, headphones on, watching dry sunny BMX videos on YouTube.
At 1pm I'm away for 2 weeks.
I can make it.
They've got a blow up reindeer with a noisy fan too.
Hard 'nope' from me.
If I want Christmas music at work I'll go back to working in a supermarket. The horror, the horror...
Just got an Airfix kit in the Secret Satan, so I'm happy now.
Let them play their tunes.
...For a bit.
Hell no! Have had to put up with it since the beginning of the month, was so close to taking a hammer to one of the radios last week.
29 years ago I worked in a a restaurant and bar where Christmas music (and parties) started in November and ran till January. I'm still scarred from that, so occasional Christmas songs are ok, but constant makes me sit in the corner and rock.
The Corey Tailor Christmas song is allowed though.
%100 no I would walk out as its against my cheer
Prepping for a meeting and half of us are trying to wrap up the year whilst the rest are like toddlers.
Pretty standard for any workplace I've ever been in. Starts around the end of November with idiots wearing xmas jumpers and shoving tinsel around stuff. Basically a whole month of productivity lost and its usually (in my place when in the office) the millenials. Idiots...
Thankfully I work from home so I'm currently listening to Terrorvision although thats just finished and the Bluetones has just come on.
I think I'd murder someone if I had to endure a day listening to Mariah warbling about Christmas and fkn Wizard...
Pass the logging axe, time to prune some deadwood!
They’ve got a blow up reindeer with a noisy fan too.
Well we all like a reindeer, but can't you ask them to stop cheering for a bit?
Obviously you have a PPL and PRS licence needed to inflict Mariah ****ing Carey on everyone.
My office today will be a Porterhouse I’m happy if they play Christmas tunes whilst I indulge in steak.
100% NO!!!!!!!!!
complaint to HR? Its discrimination against scrooges
Whamhalla awaits! 😆
Hell YES!
or
Hell NO!
Just "Hell" will do.
"Currently a bit of Dirty Vegas in the background in my (home) office."
I've not listened to Dirty Vegas in a long time @a11y Thank you for the reminder.
It's an improvement on Kisstory so hell yes <inserts noise cancelling ear buds>.
Another animal on the thread! (Goat).
I haven't worked in an office/workplace with a radio or other PA music in decades
I'd be very annoyed if the christmas music had been piped in for a week already by this point - I'd have the headphones in straight away
It is just someone who has taken up themselves to "jolly" things up. I'm listening to the Al Murray / James Holland "We Have Ways" podcast to drown it out.
Anyway, I've done a number on their Elf of A Shelf.
Every time I go in a supermarket I'm left feeling really sorry for the poor staff who must endure it 8 hours a day.
They've had Christmas shit for time, man. Poor, poor souls 🙁
Murray
Music’s a very personal thing, inflicting it on others in a public place is wrong
That would make gigs quite difficult
Why? At a gig, everyone is there specifically because of whoever the artist is. They’ve paid for the privilege. The poor, benighted souls forced to endure shit radio like Kisstory, on the other hand, are innocents thrown into purgatory through no fault of their own. Pray for their sorry souls.
I have a lot of seasonal songs by a wide variety of artists which I could probably compile into a playlist that would last a significant amount of time. And would be a pleasure to listen to. But I can’t be arsed.
Spending 26 Xmas' delivering Xmas cards as a postie with every December officially Xmas Pressure right up to Xmas Eve . Back when people actually sent cards , Xmas music in the office every shift then the last 3 pre retirement years stacking supermarket shelves I'm more than happy to have been Xmas music at my time of choosing and my choice enabled for the last 3 years.
Having read some of the comments I'm glad I'm not the only one . But the thing that puzzles me is why if you don't feel the urge to join in do people assume you're a miserable git ? " Come on it's Xmas " and ?
Not only this time of year but when you don't join in with the herd . " What do you mean you don't watch Strictly, I'm A Celebrity etc etc " and any other of that ilk .
Anything pre December is a definite no for me. My ideal would be the odd Christmas song throughout December, and go nuts the week before.
Saying that, I've decided not to moan about it, if that's what other people enjoy. I've spent a portion of this week listening to The Cramps on headphones.
All quiet at the moment, but if it starts up again there may be some muttering.
It was bad enough shopping yesterday with jolly Christmas tune playing. It is enough to drive you into full zombie killing mode and play resident evil supermarket edition.
You have my sympathy especially if you are trying to concentrate.
Hell no to any music in the workplace. A huge hell no to commercial radio stations which I'd find genuinely quite tortuous.
I don't like silence either though. The ideal office noise for me is a steady low hum, around 60db, similar to a little box fan, which is loud enough to drown out the noise of people breathing and eating and that sort of thing, but quiet enough so that you can talk at a normal volume.
A huge hell no to commercial radio stations which I’d find genuinely quite tortuous.
Unfortunately that's where I find myself. Gets turned on a 9am, turned off at 5pm. Every single ****ing day. The best noise cancelling earbuds/headphones you can afford are definitely worth it!