Christmas: the tyranny of the majority

[Smoke]

I don't understand the decision to pipe music of any kind into the workplace. No matter what you choose, there will be people who hate it. How can it be good for productivity when you're driving at least of your employees slowly out of their minds?

I hate piped-in Christmas music, too. It's not so much that "The Christmas Song" itself irritates me; I could take it in moderation, but there's a limit to how many times I want to hear it between Thanksgiving and Christmas -- and it's always Bing Crosby's version, for some reason.

Well, I know Hanukkah is over but....who ever gets tired of hearing Adam Sandler's "Hanukkah Song"?

It's funny once, maybe twice a year. That's plenty.

 

[ChristineES]

While I love Christmas music, I can understand the agony of being forced to listen any music that you loath all day long at work.
I know I would go insane if I was forced to listen to some of today's hits all day. My son plays them sometimes and even then I have to grin and bear it.

 

[9-10ths_Penguin]

Jay, it's about 3 weeks a year... Get over it!! :slap:

It strikes me that if every local restaurant near you was closed during daylight hours for Ramadan, you might not accept "get over it" when you want to eat lunch but can't. Why should people be forced to listen to Christmas songs when they go into virtually any place of commerce?

The thing that does it for me is that bloody Paul McCartney Christmas song. I'm sure that the Hague would have something to say if it were used on POWs, so why do they feel a need to play it at us in the malls?

 

[Aasimar]

So, here I am at work, where both factory and office are blessed with non-stop Christmas music courtesy of a Chicago radio station: some benign, some inane, and some intensely doctrinal. Short of alienating their management and coworkers alike, the atheists, Jews, Hindus, and Muslims can do little other than grit their teeth in the face of wave after wave of Christian sermon piped into the workplace. I long for New Years ...

Yeah well I work in retail right now (Sad, I know.) so I kinda understand why they place christmas music all day, lot's of people buying christmas crap. However in an office or some sort of industrial workplace, I'd probably ask em to tone it down, not get rid of it, but maybe play something else every few hours.

 

[Fluffy]

I especially hate those ones that are pumped out by some golden crooner. Whenever they mention Jesus, it just seems so out of place and weird that it puts shivers up my back.

I'm quite partial to "All I Want For Christmas Is You" however .

You could... move out of the country.

Great advice. You should just go ahead and move out of this thread then.

 

[MysticSang'ha]

I love Christmas. I love Christmas. I love Christmas. But I understand why you'd feel this way, Jay.

As much as I adore my in-laws, they can at times be overwhelming in their "reason for the season" dogma at their Christmas party (it was yesterday). I like the Christmas tree. I like the atmosphere. I like the generosity. And I like some of the music. But to hear their diatribe about how their holiday has been "stolen" from them somehow by commercialism and an "ever-increasing Godlessness and politically-correct world" can just ruin any joyful mood that previously existed.

I have to really bite my tongue in those moments. They don't realize that my husband can have Christmas Eve and Christmas Day off from work as federal holidays and yet he would have to ask for sick leave or personal leave if he were to celebrate or observe another religious holiday.




Peace,
Mystic

 

[Reverend Rick]

The nerve of some people! We should stop this at once! While we are at it, could we please outlaw loud booming car stereos as well please?

A politically correct workplace would have bought you all i-pods for christmas and everyone could have listened to what they wanted.

 

[MysticSang'ha]

The nerve of some people! We should stop this at once! While we are at it, could we please outlaw loud booming car stereos as well please?

A politically correct workplace would have bought you all i-pods for christmas and everyone could have listened to what they wanted.

Or, they could just continue playing muzak like Heart or Dan Fogelburg and don't even mention Christmas.





Peace,
Mystic

 

[Shadow Wolf]

You could... move out of the country.

I like Wilamena's response.

Jay, it's about 3 weeks a year... Get over it!!

Is that it? I might move to the Netherlands then. I've been hearing Christmas songs since before Thanksgiving.

Myself, I cannot stand Christmas music, with the exception of a very few songs.

 

[Reverend Rick]

I must admit that the commercialization of Christmas has trees, ornaments and music some places before Halloween. By the time the holiday gets here, you are sick of hearing it.

 

[Hit_me_up024]

christmas music is offensive, if we're being socially correct of course

 

[Azakel]

Christmas music is offensive, if we're being socially correct of course

How is it offensive, I don't cre for it myself but I don't find it offensive at all.

 

[Reverend Rick]

Why is being socially correct any less offensive than the religious right cramming Christmas down your throat? Is giving up your freedom of speech and religion more important than going through life expecting to not be offended?

Before anyone becomes upset, remember I have just asked two questions not made a statement.

If questioning a position is offensive, what does that say?

 

[Azakel]

Why is being socially correct any less offensive than the religious right cramming Christmas down your throat? Is giving up your freedom of speech and religion more important than going through life expecting to not be offended?

It's not...... I know some people that don't like when people are "Socially Correct", like a black friend of mine that hates being call African-American.

Before anyone becomes upset, remember I have just asked two questions not made a statement.

I know...^_^

If questioning a position is offensive, what does that say?

Then we have no hope for anyone :cover:

 

[Jayhawker Soule]

How is it offensive, I don't cre for it myself but I don't find it offensive at all.

Because much of Christmas music is, for many of us, unwanted sermon, no different than having an obnoxious church service pumped into our office/cubical. For example: "Joy to the world, the Lord is come! Let earth receive her King" is, for a Jew, idolatrous and obnoxious.

 

[Gentoo]

Because much of Christmas music is, for many of us, unwanted sermon, no different than having an obnoxious church service pumped into our office/cubical. For example: "Joy to the world, the Lord is come! Let earth receive her King" is, for a Jew, idolatrous and obnoxious.

I know it's not the solution for everyone, but for myself, I don't even listen to the words (heck I don't even know most of the words to the more popular Christmas Carols); I like the music for itself, the words I can replace in my head

 

[Jayhawker Soule]

I know it's not the solution for everyone, but ...

You're a penguin using Snoopy as an avatar ... you obviously excel in the art of substitution.

 

[Gentoo]

You're a penguin using Snoopy as an avatar ... you obviously excel in the art of substitution.

Snoopy pretended to be a penguin in the Charlie Brown Christmas Special... see, it all ties in

 

[Azakel]

Because much of Christmas music is, for many of us, unwanted sermon, no different than having an obnoxious church service pumped into our office/cubical. For example: "Joy to the world, the Lord is come! Let earth receive her King" is, for a Jew, idolatrous and obnoxious.

Understood, I wasn't even thinking of it like that.

 

[Jayhawker Soule]

Understood, I wasn't even thinking of it like that.

Perhaps reading the OP ...

So, here I am at work, where both factory and office are blessed with non-stop Christmas music courtesy of a Chicago radio station: some benign, some inane, and some intensely doctrinal. Short of alienating their management and coworkers alike, the atheists, Jews, Hindus, and Muslims can do little other than grit their teeth in the face of wave after wave of Christian sermon piped into the workplace.

... would help.