Many, many years ago, my mother was director of admitting at Mt. Sinai Hospital here in Toronto. One day she came to work to discover that Muzak had been installed. Over about a week or so, she noticed that all her staff were becoming irritable as the day wore on. She went on the warpath, and they finally agreed to turn it off in her area.

Now, as I sit here at my desk, I have the radio on all day (except for the odd CD I might stick in), tuned to Jazz FM. I guess it's all in what you like. If I had to listen to, say, soft rock all day, or something like that, I'd tell them where the gold is buried in no time at all.

>In high school I worked in a grocery store where Christmas songs were played for the entire month of December. On a 30 minute loop. The horror, the horror!
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>>It seems many Brits agree with you on holiday music torture:
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>>http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/12/14/christmas_music_torture/
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>>It is one thing to hear the music continually while shopping - after all, a customer can leave when the noise is too much or just plain aggravating. However, employees are forced to listen. The same could be said though for Rap, Top40, ... :o) Nothing is worse than shopping in a store where the music is so loud it is painful. I say stop all music in stores period! No more background noise! :o)
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>>>>My favorite gifts:
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>>>I got three good things on that day:
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>>>1) nothing in form of actual presents, good.
>>>2) a nice chunk of work landed on my disk, so I had something to concentrate on and wait for the hype to pass, good.
>>>3) in the evening, the hype actually passed.
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>>>Now to the New Year. You don't have to believe in it, it works regardless.