At my first job I worked at a local grocery store as a cashier. Normally the store owner would have a playlist of modern pop that would loop at least once per 8hr shift, and he’d change up the playlist every few months. This sucked a lot, but at the time I didn’t know how much worse it would get.

On the closing shift on Halloween night, he started playing his Christmas CD. It was 80 minutes long. On repeat. Nonstop. Until halfway into January. To this day I refuse to listen to any Christmas music at all because fuck that.

This is true! I worked for Blockbuster Video when Titanic came out. I still to this day have to turn off that damn song when it comes on.

I worked at fuckin’ Olive Garden many years ago, and the highlight of my shift was always when Richard Cheese would sneak onto the playlist. Whoever programmed that thing either didn’t know what they were doing or knew exactly what they were doing.

Worked at Best Buy for years and now ever time I hear that fucking Mariah Carey Christmas song I want to claw my eyes out.

It can only mean ONE THIIIIING… McRib is here!

IYKYK

Was employee happiness with wages factored into this? I would be a lot more okay dealing with bullshit music for $23/hr than I would be at $10/hr.

The other factor for this would be properly allowing accommodations for employees. Not having any escape, reprieve or say sucks, but can be managed with earbuds/earplugs or occasionally queueing up a preferred song.

I mean people have very different tastes how are you going to please every employee?