My new favorite Christmas song

[WhistlingBadger]

 

[Back in the fold]

Hey ! There was Barry Corbin in “ War Games “ . Famed for his phrase “ I’d piss on a spark plug if I thought it’d help “ .

 

[WhistlingBadger]

This channel, "There, I Ruined It," is famous for doing extremely bizarre and inappropriate mashups. He dedicated this one to everyone who works in retail and has to endure "All I Want for Christmas Is You" 200 times a week this time of year.

And yeah...The video is every bit as funny as the song.

 

[GaryE]

I was in a mall store last week when the main speaker system out in the corridors glitched, and the insipid tunes stopped for a few minutes. The workers were openly celebrating til they saw me, a shopper. I supported them wholeheartedly and it was a fine moment of shared holiday cheer. Alas, the mall owners must have quickly paid their spotify bill because the horrors recommenced.

Listening to hair metal meeting Mariah though proves that two wrongs don't make a right.

 

[TwoTankAmin]

Many decades ago I worked in the Photo department of a big discount store. This included one Christmas season. Research on how long an average customer stays inside a store determined how long the Christmas music tape was. it was about 35 or 40 minutes and it weoud start over. Of course during the season we worked 10-12 hour days and 7 days a week. So I must have heard that tape at least 20 times/day every day for a couple of weeks. I learned to hate Christmas carols that year.

Bug Humbar I say, or is it Hah Bumhug?

two wrongs don't make a right.

But 3 lefts will...........

 

[GaryE]

Retail poisoned me on Christmas tunes, though I like hearing them one time through, and only the old ones. Retail also made me hate bands like Queen, Rush, The Beatles, hair metal, progressive - for three years my boss put classic rock radio on all day, and they just kept playing the same tunes I heard when I was 14 when I was 24. Their playlist looped endlessly, and I got mighty sick of the same old same old. I found that station on the car radio when I was traveling through the region recently, and they were still playing the same 'classic rock', some of it 50 plus years after it was recorded. I didn't hear one song from this century on that station.

I guess it's comforting. Every generation believes its music was the best, and every grandfather has a variation on modern music being just noise. My Dad thought electric guitars were awful things, and on and on we go. I'm always glad to hear new styles, but hopefully not of Christmas and holiday tunes.

 

[WhistlingBadger]

I think that part of being a good boss is giving one's employees music they can stand to listen to. It isn't that hard. But most bosses seem not to care about things like working conditions or employee happiness. Perhaps the current workers' market will change that somewhat; it seems that businesses have a hard time finding and keeping workers since covid, so perhaps bosses are having to think about that sort of thing a bit more.

When I go into a business, the first thing I notice, before I even see the merchandise, is whether the employees are happy. I don't mean fake, "retail happy" put on for the benefit of the customers. I notice things like laughter from break rooms, smiles and conversations between coworkers who aren't interacting with customers, how managers interact with workers, that sort of thing. If the people working there are relaxed and happy, I'll probably be back, even if I have to spend a bit more or choose a different brand than normal.

When I first set up the 150g at the dentist office years ago, I would purposefully go to work on the tank Wednesday mornings, when the crew had their weekly staff meeting in the downstairs lounge. I'd be working upstairs, and about every couple minutes there would be a roar of laughter from downstairs. I love working or shopping in a place like that.

 

[Colin_T]

For those of us without noise coming from our computers (apart from horrible fan noises), what was the song?

I know the song by Twisted Sister, did Mariah sing it with them or what was it all about?