OK Getting ready to "harm" my co-worker...

From where I live, you could get to Vegas faster (flying) than I could (driving). No air service between here and there. Besides, us real Nevadans think Vegas should be part of California. You mean it isn't?

I feel your pain richjb, this happened in our office the other day...we all work in cubicles and the next one over from me left her old fashion heavy religious sounding carols on while they went to a meeting... some of the songs were more like a low moan and then it switched to the ultra high sopranos that could shatter your eye glasses...and it is considered being a scrooge to complain...now if I could find some Wiccan Winter Solstice Carols ... Maybe ear plugs could work for you...or bring in your own tunes and ask her to play them for equal time..I did like Leonard's PTSD response - that has many possiblities... Peace ( and quiet to you )

Beyond that all commercial Christmas music is relative re-recorded junk, when was the last really good "new" Christmas song. Over here 'Fairytale of New York' by the Pogues and Kirsty McCall is generally regarded as the only half decent 'new' Christmas song. Then there's the famous Kevin 'Bloody' Wilson song, but that's a whole other story . . . . Where's my Festivus pole?

Friday, I was on hold. I was calling a veterinary clinic in Florida. When the music started to play, I didn't know what to do. It was the Dreidle Song barked by dogs. It was like they do Jingle Bells.Barf-Barf, Barf-Barf, roroofrorooforofrofrof. It was truly horrible. I hope who ever thought it was a good idea will die a miserable death. Then I went to a store to buy some Dreidles. None of them spun! they were all very pretty but of no good to me. the store did have real chocolate coins for sale very cheaply though. Last night I ate the worst noodle pudding I've ever had. It was "sandy." It tasted like it had raw flour in it.

At work, it is set up with rooms of cubicles(like everywhere these days). The room next door plays a lot of Christmas music, we are all very quiet, listening to our headphones. One of the guys from next door came in to help a co-worker with something, and sat there and whistled Christmas music. Finally we all turned and glared at him. He called us scrooges. And that guy is my husband :rolleyes: the kids now whistle all the time at home, he whistles, and sometimes not the same songs. Oh my.

Burn the place down.

So my boss decides to come in to town this past Thurs/Fri. Since he's got no office there, he takes the unoccupied cube at my back, which because of a large support pole, is essentially part of my cube. So he rolls in at 830 or so Friday, and a couple times before 10, I hear what I think is "let it snow" being whistled. In a complete opposite situation of Rich, after one of his whistles, he leans over into my cube and asks me to turn up my music (I have my ipod hooked up to speakers) so he can hear something else to get that song out of his head. So I turned it up (gladly, since I couldnt hear it), and the whistling stopped. First time I've had a request to crank it at work. :coffee:

Milton Waddams: I was told that I could listen to the radio at a reasonable volume from nine to eleven, I told Bill that if Sandra is going to listen to her headphones while she's filing then I should be able to listen to the radio while I'm collating so I don't see why I should have to turn down the radio because I enjoy listening at a reasonable volume from nine to eleven. :joker: Two of my co-workers recently bought red Swingline staplers. They''re sold online: www.amazon.com/.../B0006HUQZ6 Anna Lea ------

Friday, I was on hold. I was calling a veterinary clinic in Florida. When the music started to play, I didn't know what to do. It was the Dreidle Song barked by dogs. It was like they do Jingle Bells.Barf-Barf, Barf-Barf, roroofrorooforofrofrof. It was truly horrible. I hope who ever thought it was a good idea will die a miserable death. Then I went to a store to buy some Dreidles. None of them spun! they were all very pretty but of no good to me. the store did have real chocolate coins for sale very cheaply though. Last night I ate the worst noodle pudding I've ever had. It was "sandy." It tasted like it had raw flour in it. I almost choked on my transfat injected grapes reading this ... frickin' hilarious ...

The admin in my office has been playing Christmas music nonstop since the one local radio station started it in mid-Nov. Needless to say, I don't spend too much time near her desk. I have an XM Satellite radio boom box in my office, usually listening to alternative-type music (XM 54/Lucy), which scares most people out of my office pretty fast. I have put on some of the holiday channels here and there, but get tired of it pretty fast.