What if a song they play at work follows you home and gets stuck in your head?
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ArishMell · 70-79, M
I'd have been very annoyed with the company!
I spent a few years in a machine-shop where one person insisted on having a radio on loudly, and another where a couple of people could not function without their wireless tuned to a wretched, commercial, pseudo-local, pop-music station.
Other than that I was very lucky.
Throughout my working life I never worked anywhere where "They" bombarded you all day long with annoying anthologies of old pop-records and adverts for the company, thrown together by remote, mindless spreadsheet-jockeys, as in supermarkets and motorway service-areas.
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The only thing "local" about that radio station, Bournemouth's 2CR if I remember rightly, were a few brief News headlines about local affairs, and advertisements for local businesses... and at least one of those was voiced by an American!
I spent a few years in a machine-shop where one person insisted on having a radio on loudly, and another where a couple of people could not function without their wireless tuned to a wretched, commercial, pseudo-local, pop-music station.
Other than that I was very lucky.
Throughout my working life I never worked anywhere where "They" bombarded you all day long with annoying anthologies of old pop-records and adverts for the company, thrown together by remote, mindless spreadsheet-jockeys, as in supermarkets and motorway service-areas.
......
The only thing "local" about that radio station, Bournemouth's 2CR if I remember rightly, were a few brief News headlines about local affairs, and advertisements for local businesses... and at least one of those was voiced by an American!
UndeadSona · F
ArishMell · 70-79, M
@NinaTina Was that Nina's swan-song?
You're lucky.
There used to be a Britain-wide, British-owned chain of roadside restaurants branded Little Chef. Like all such chains each looked like all the others, down to the trademark everywhere, even woven into the carpets. And probably all sounded the same, with syrupy, pseudo-sentimental crooning at quite low volume from louspeakers in the ceiling.
I and friends travelling with me once broke a long jouney at one. Afterwards one asked, "Did you realise what they were singing?"
We didn't. He'd been listening; we hadn't.
"All about the Little Chef", he replied, "A sort of subliminal advertising."
You're lucky.
There used to be a Britain-wide, British-owned chain of roadside restaurants branded Little Chef. Like all such chains each looked like all the others, down to the trademark everywhere, even woven into the carpets. And probably all sounded the same, with syrupy, pseudo-sentimental crooning at quite low volume from louspeakers in the ceiling.
I and friends travelling with me once broke a long jouney at one. Afterwards one asked, "Did you realise what they were singing?"
We didn't. He'd been listening; we hadn't.
"All about the Little Chef", he replied, "A sort of subliminal advertising."
ArishMell · 70-79, M
@FreddieUK I used the Little Chefs so infrequently I didn't notice any deterioration to the standards of the US-owned junk-food chains so ubiquitous now!
I used them ony rarely but found the main restaurants' quality in the motorway services generally reasonable, unfortunately they are so expensive. On long journeys now I take hot drinks makings and food, and use the services building only for the loos.
At least the music falling out of the services-areas' ceilings, even more loudly in the toilets, can hardly be called subliminal. I don't know how the staff put up with it but you'd need be rather short of employment choice to want to work in such places.
I used them ony rarely but found the main restaurants' quality in the motorway services generally reasonable, unfortunately they are so expensive. On long journeys now I take hot drinks makings and food, and use the services building only for the loos.
At least the music falling out of the services-areas' ceilings, even more loudly in the toilets, can hardly be called subliminal. I don't know how the staff put up with it but you'd need be rather short of employment choice to want to work in such places.