It's Never too Early

The day before Halloween, work was really busy. It was a typical Thursday, people thinking they're going to beat the weekend rush, but jokes on them: they are the weekend rush. Our store was so crazy and my store manager was complaining over the headset walkie-talkie that the music wasn't loud enough and that we couldn't find the regular CD so we were playing the after-hours CD. I suggested that we pop in the Christmas CD, you know, just to see what's on it and to get people thinking about Christmas coming up.

She actually took my suggestion for once and popped that bad boy into the CD player and two seconds later the joyful noise of bells and singing of snow filled the air. I was delighted. I am a fan of a good Christmas classing playing over the P.A. system. Little did I know, once that Christmas CD started playing, it wasn't going to stop. 

Every day. Every single day at work I have to hear Christmas music for nine hours straight. I don't work every day, but it is still super annoying. I get that it's a religious holiday and I'm not disrespecting Jesus or anything, but hearing happy people singing on the loudspeaker is too much sometimes. My managers like to turn the music up so loud that people have to YELL to talk. I can't stand it. It doesn't feel like music anymore, it just feels like background noise.

I always had the motto: "It's never too early to start playing Christmas music!" but after what I have endured for the past few weeks, I now beg to differ.