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"SPARE a thought for a group of people who are at their most vulnerable around this time of year but whose plight rarely attracts public sympathy.
I refer to those unfortunate shop assistants now being forced to listen, day after day, to the same small collection of banal Christmas songs, played on endlessly repeating loops. How on earth do they retain their sanity through the months of November and December? It’s bad enough for customers, especially those of us who have already lived long enough to hear Slade’s (So here it is) Merry Christmas or Cliff Richard’s Mistletoe and Wine at least 500 times too often. We only have to spend half an hour so in the supermarket. And if we want to, we can always wear headphones and listen to something else, like Mahler’s Fifth Symphony. For shop assistants, though, there is no escape.
I understand that some of the big stores at least stagger the introduction of seasonal soundtracks, first, making one in every five songs a Christmas one; then one in four; and so on until saturation point.
This is a relatively humane approach, allowing staff to build up resistance..."
Frank McNally's seasonal rant is at:
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/opinion/2010/1218/1224285829600.html
I refer to those unfortunate shop assistants now being forced to listen, day after day, to the same small collection of banal Christmas songs, played on endlessly repeating loops. How on earth do they retain their sanity through the months of November and December? It’s bad enough for customers, especially those of us who have already lived long enough to hear Slade’s (So here it is) Merry Christmas or Cliff Richard’s Mistletoe and Wine at least 500 times too often. We only have to spend half an hour so in the supermarket. And if we want to, we can always wear headphones and listen to something else, like Mahler’s Fifth Symphony. For shop assistants, though, there is no escape.
I understand that some of the big stores at least stagger the introduction of seasonal soundtracks, first, making one in every five songs a Christmas one; then one in four; and so on until saturation point.
This is a relatively humane approach, allowing staff to build up resistance..."
Frank McNally's seasonal rant is at:
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/opinion/2010/1218/1224285829600.html
Local commercial radio at work is just as bad,the same what seems like six songs played day in day out,day in day out,with the same adverts every three songs.I cant educate the numptys 
