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In Reply to: RE: A Love Supreme in the Time of Pandemic posted by Palustris on March 16, 2021 at 09:52:07
just think of the poor retail worker forced to hear David Bowie & Bing duet on the 'The Little Drummer Boy' 30X a day during the Christmas shopping season ... though you 'boyza andah girlz' have my sympathies on the Lawrence Welk toonage
regards,
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In the mid eighties I worked in a restaurant which used a tape recorder for background music when there was no piano player. Normally the tapes recycled in around 3 hours, but there was only one Christmas tape and it was only 45 minutes long, so every 45 minutes we heard Michael Jackson and the Jackson Five sing "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus." I suppose it helped the turn-over (when a customer heard a song three times it signaled it was time to go,) but it sure drove us crazy. Fortunately the restaurant was an early adapter to the cd carousel players so our Christmas misery was reduced.
sounds like a Twilight Zone episode or 'G' rated Saw movie
my wife had a SONY CDP-CX235 200 disc player when we first met
I was impressed [expensive!] and it actually sounded pretty good
you'd load discs into these cartridges and those into the CD jukebox
they didn't call it that, it was the 'Explorer' ...
man that thing was rough on the media, maybe 30 > 40 plays per CD
they looked like someone tried to clean them with a 'Scotch Brite' pad
I made her ditch it ... Ebay wasn't really a thing to trust yet back then
and ... this sure went off on a tangent, sorry
regards,
Yes, it's true: I worked in retail for a year and the noise coming through the ever present radio was appalling. It was the same songs every hour for eight hours! It was truly torture.
I started off my electronics career in manufacturing passing and rejecting PC boards and fixing the "dogs" once the rack had been cleared. I had to endure the same top 50 radio station cranked up to 11 on the manufacturing floor. I begged the VP of manufacturing for a different job and he sent me to engineering. It was bliss: the engineers were not into top 50 radio.
I've had jobs where I longed for the 'sweet release of death' for similar reasons so I quit ... hard work and long hours are acceptable, constant assaults on the senses and sensibilities are not ...
boundaries are important!
regards,
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