Nah, 2007 was way too late for numb. It was almost certainly What I've Done.
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Retail people, what repeat media playing in the store did you hate the most?
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Nah, 2007 was way too late for numb. It was almost certainly What I've Done.
I worked at Walmart overnight back in 2015. And Frozen played almost non-stop on all the TVs in electronics. So I heard Let it Go maybe 3-4 times a night for months.
And this was just the TVs. We would turn the radio on the loudspeakers, but since the song was THAT big, it was still playing on random radio stations.
So I heard it in all maybe 8-10 times a day for 3 months.
I hate that song.
And this was just the TVs. We would turn the radio on the loudspeakers, but since the song was THAT big, it was still playing on random radio stations.
So I heard it in all maybe 8-10 times a day for 3 months.
I hate that song.
Oh man, all the GameStop employees ITT commiserating over constant Big Bang Theory ads, I feel you.
If you worked at a GameStop circa 2007 do NOT watch the below video unless you want to re-experience physical pain.
If you worked at a GameStop circa 2007 do NOT watch the below video unless you want to re-experience physical pain.
CTRL + F "Manic Monday"
Fuck this song in particular.
Oh good I see it's been covered.
Fuck this song in particular.
Bon Jovi's greatest hits. My manager used to play that album in its entirety, no shuffle, every single afternoon.
Also some of the ads we had to play in store. Some of the ones that I remember the most are Battleborn, NBA 2kXX with Shaq, and the FFXV trailer with the Afrojack remix.
Also some of the ads we had to play in store. Some of the ones that I remember the most are Battleborn, NBA 2kXX with Shaq, and the FFXV trailer with the Afrojack remix.
Christmas music. Any Christmas music. "Santa Baby" in particular makes me want to stick a power drill up my nose. The only tolerable one was that fairytale New York Christmas one, because clearly no one at corporate ever actually listened to the lyrics.
Working at a video rental place, we had a 10 minute loop with 30 second promos running all day every day. The worst part of it was the Daredevil ad with that Evanescence song.
I worked at Circuit City in 1998-1999. For a few months the demo video that ran in A/V on a ~45 min loop included the video for Britney Spears' Oops, I Did It Again.
That was less annoying than I worked at Putt-Putt Golf & Games in the arcade and had to hear "DAYTOOOONAAAAAAAAAAAA" from the Daytona USA cabinets -- eight of them within 20' of the counter I worked behind -- constantly. Six times every minute if no one was playing.
That was less annoying than I worked at Putt-Putt Golf & Games in the arcade and had to hear "DAYTOOOONAAAAAAAAAAAA" from the Daytona USA cabinets -- eight of them within 20' of the counter I worked behind -- constantly. Six times every minute if no one was playing.
A million times this/ The same handful of songs over and over and over again. Especially Mariah Carey – All I Want for Christmas Is You. Not a bad song, but played WAY too frequently.
There was a new Eagles song that came out in the early 2000s when I worked at Best Buy, and it was playing both on the overhead and in the TV section at least 2-3 times an hour. It's buried in my brain, and made me hate every Eagles song.
I've never worked Retail, but I worked in a call center that piped in music while we worked. During the Holidays, they would switch it over to Christmas music and the one song that would drive me absolutely up the walls was the Jackson Five's version of Santa Claus is Coming to Town. I can't explain why, but that song annoys the ever loving shit out of me.
I'm fine with other Christmas songs, I'm fine with other Jackson Five songs, but that particular song grates on my nerves, and it played multiple times per hour. I still can't listen to it.
I'm fine with other Christmas songs, I'm fine with other Jackson Five songs, but that particular song grates on my nerves, and it played multiple times per hour. I still can't listen to it.
Not retail but worked in a sales and service center for AT&T in central Florida.
Every fucking day was the same small playlist of music chosen to "pump us up and inspire us to sell".
Tons of Pitbull, "all I do is win win win", and I hate all those songs to this day.
I still get random ass Pitbull songs that I don't even know the name of in my head randomly like ear worm PTSD.
I dug the shut out of Christmas because they'd finally play something else.
Also my personal manager would sometimes get the playlist on Saturdays and being my age we'd get 80s and 90s hip hop and alternative very rarely.
I remember one day standing up and going "is this fucking Something I Can Never Have by NIN?" And of course they didn't get through the whole song because it was boring and bumming out the millennials.
Every fucking day was the same small playlist of music chosen to "pump us up and inspire us to sell".
Tons of Pitbull, "all I do is win win win", and I hate all those songs to this day.
I still get random ass Pitbull songs that I don't even know the name of in my head randomly like ear worm PTSD.
I dug the shut out of Christmas because they'd finally play something else.
Also my personal manager would sometimes get the playlist on Saturdays and being my age we'd get 80s and 90s hip hop and alternative very rarely.
I remember one day standing up and going "is this fucking Something I Can Never Have by NIN?" And of course they didn't get through the whole song because it was boring and bumming out the millennials.
I remember working in a department selling appliances, and they had this stand that sold cheap, shitty music for tweens. But the stand had a built in speaker that played the same 20 second sample on repeat really loudly. It was the equivalent of listening to 20 seconds of Friday by Rebecca Black over and over.
For 'some' reason that thing always seemed to break on my shifts...
For 'some' reason that thing always seemed to break on my shifts...
Never really grew to hate anything that played repeatedly or music that played when working in retail, when I was in the mall I did hate conflicting audio like two stores blasting music and the mall music all fighting for space.. but that's it.
My partner absolutely hates Steal my Sunshine by Len because of retail work though.
My partner absolutely hates Steal my Sunshine by Len because of retail work though.
I swear I heard this once an hour every day at work for my first 3 jobs
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Playing their TV commercials in stores never made sense to me. Customers in the store were ALREADY THERE.
Echoing Christmas music, *especially* All I Want for Christmas is You. And because I worked in a southern grocery store, I had this *special gem* also on repeat through all of December.
I've become very anti-Christmas due in large part to work in grocery retail for so long, lol.
I've become very anti-Christmas due in large part to work in grocery retail for so long, lol.
That Christmas song where the lady really sounds like she wants to fuck Santa.
You know what I'm talking about. Was it the really seductive and breathy voiced version?
You know what I'm talking about. Was it the really seductive and breathy voiced version?
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When I worked retail there was this one song in our playlist that would come up that is, in my opinion, absolute artistic garbage and one of the worst pieces of "music" I've ever heard in my life. Every time it would come on I felt like walking out of my job on the spot, absolute trash song:
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Christmas music. What was the worst was the small game store I used to work in was in a mall and had a bunch of different performance groups....right in front of the fucking store. It was the same repetitive shit, and then also bizarre Britney Spears covers sometimes.
They usually had a game's title loop/demo running on the big screen, and this usually had sound. The absolute worst was Guitar Hero and Rock Band games, since this was in the heyday of those. Funny story about that big screen, one time someone put Dead or Alive Xtreme 2 on the big screen and my friend (manager) heard the "duh duh duhhhh duh duh duhhhhh" and was like "SHIT' and ran into the back and yanked the disc out.
They usually had a game's title loop/demo running on the big screen, and this usually had sound. The absolute worst was Guitar Hero and Rock Band games, since this was in the heyday of those. Funny story about that big screen, one time someone put Dead or Alive Xtreme 2 on the big screen and my friend (manager) heard the "duh duh duhhhh duh duh duhhhhh" and was like "SHIT' and ran into the back and yanked the disc out.
Not really retail or media but I used to work in a busy hotel and the front desk was right next to the lift/elevators and all fucking day I would hear....
'' Ground floor......Going up, please mind the door'' over and over.
'' Ground floor......Going up, please mind the door'' over and over.
I worked at Pacific Sunwear as a teen. They actually played music that wasn't completely unbearable and rotated playlists every few months.
Worked at Barnes and Noble back when the first Frozen came out. We had frozen week. Which was the soundtrack, on repeat, nonstop, for the entire week. Moment we were done I remember our manager gathered us all up after closing so he could snap the CD in two in front of us, with everyone cheering. To this day I still can't stand that movies music.
Special mention for the animals - We gotta get out of this place. Lemme tell you, not a great morale booster when you're working in a slammed in an understaffed and overstressed coffee shop.
Special mention for the animals - We gotta get out of this place. Lemme tell you, not a great morale booster when you're working in a slammed in an understaffed and overstressed coffee shop.
Taylor's vocals on this song make it about 10x worse than any other Christmas song. I don't think Taylor Swift is a bad singer and I like some of her songs but her vocals coupled with the song is ear bleeding. 'Last Christmas' and 'Santa Baby' are just cringy songs, imo.
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I feel like any adult that claims to "love" Mariah Carey's All I Want For Christmas Is You is stealth humblebragging about never working retail.
Not necessarily hate but when Hungry Like The Wolf by Duran Duran came on it always seemed at like the most inopportune times to have a woman moaning loud as fuck in the background while you're working with some old lady and her remodeling project. Torture to keep a straight face.
Any Christmas music. The food court/shopping center I worked in was usually quiet or playing some low, elevator-music type stuff that was easy to ignore. But heaven help you the day after Halloween, because now we're getting 2-3 months of someone's 1 spare Christmas hits CD on repeat.
Not enough if I am being quite honest. Fry's taught me that that is the greatest movie ever made, obviously.
I feel for you. I've never worked retail luckily but spending an hour or so in an arcade that Daytona song drills in to your head, I've never even played the game but can hear it even before I played the video.
Do they still play those 1-minute long ads/gaming news segments at Gamestop? I remember being in there a decade ago browsing for a game and hearing the same clip, just on repeat, the entire time I was in there. I felt so bad for the cashiers. An 8-hour shift, measured by a 1-minute long ad on repeat.
edit: I see it's already been covered.
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Lmao this is killing me.
edit: I see it's already been covered.
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At my parent's deli there was this song "The old master painter" and like most of the lyrics are too quiet to hear, but the chorus gets really loud and he goes "THE OLD MASTER PAINTER from the faraway hills..."
But it sounds like masturbater.
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Lmao this is killing me.
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U2 - The Sweetest Thing
Pearl Jam - Last Kiss
We were supposed to get a new tape loop every month, but I had to hear the loop with those songs on it for like three months.
Pearl Jam - Last Kiss
We were supposed to get a new tape loop every month, but I had to hear the loop with those songs on it for like three months.
I worked at GameStop in high school and we were required to keep the demo systems on with volume. We also had a tv that had various ads and content playing on a loop. There was a period where the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and tv loop all had the same obnoxious Madden ad / song. The worst part was they would sometimes line up but not quite in sync. So you'd get three different versions competing but at different intervals and volume levels.
It's not from when I WORKED in retail.. but back in 2008, I went with family on a holiday to Las Vegas. One day on the strip, we were out and about a bit early, and ended up stopping for coffee at Starbucks outside the Fashion Show Mall.
The mall had a giant LCD screen outside, playing adverts for the stores inside on a loop. And on this morning, every second advert was this:
We heard it about forty times in the half hour we were sitting there.
The music remains stuck in my brain until this day. Fuck you, Apple.
The mall had a giant LCD screen outside, playing adverts for the stores inside on a loop. And on this morning, every second advert was this:
We heard it about forty times in the half hour we were sitting there.
The music remains stuck in my brain until this day. Fuck you, Apple.