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leperphiliac:
I worked for about a year in an office that constantly played some adult alternative channel on satellite radio. It was such a mind numbingly boring job that I couldn't help but notice what was on the radio, all the time. It got on my nerves so much I actually sat around making lists of the songs which annoyed me the most. I think Maroon 5 and Uncle Kracker topped the list. One good thing about the experience was that since then I appreciate good music a lot more.

E. Spaceman:
I work at a call centre for tech support. We are not allowed to listen to music but i've spent many a day listening to one earbud. What is sometimes great and sometimes awful is the hold music. Normally we are not subject to it like the poor bastads who call in, but if during a transfer there is hold time we get it just the same. It is actually interesting to listen to, some departments have a markedly better taste than others. Maintenance always has the same crappy easy listening loop that is actually very unnerving for me. Billing has soothing music and so on, but Second Tier is special, under normal circumstances, the customer will never hear STS hold music, and for this reason it has sometimes really odd selections. Things i remember hearing have been Ryan Adams, the Ted Leo cover of Since u Been Gone and today Planet Rock by Afrikaa Bambaataa.

BrittanyMarie:
I'm pretty sure you guys who get the rampant alcoholism and music snobbery are doing it wrong!

When I worked at the factory, it was in a town with zero stoplights. The closest town WITH stoplights was about 75 miles away. THUS there was one (one!) radio station that could come in, and it played country. I listened to a whole heck of a lot of Gretchen Wilson and Big and Rich and other really shitty country music, but at the end of the day, that's all it is! You can make Redneck Woman kind of fun if you turn your brain off. I think I learned to appreciate music maybe a little bit more because of that experience. I know that sounds contradictory, but they were smart to make it easy to sing along to.

Though now one of my coworkers has totally awesome taste in music (he listens to more kick ass old timey sounding country than I do), and two have really generic mainstream rap taste. I can get down to both Townes Van Zant and a rap where the lyrics to the chorus go "I'm crispy! So crispy!"

Jimmy the Squid:
I work in a market research call centre so we don't get any music. Before that I worked at a mobile phone store and instead of music there was a tv that played the same 2 minute advertisement one a continuous loop for a month at a time. Previous to that I worked at a bottle shop and there was no music there. Music played over the neighbouring supermarkets PA would leak through though so I would be forced to have Fergie and Avril Levinge played at me for hours on end. My first job though was at a sports shoe warehouse store. In the quiet moments I would be able to discretely rock out to Pearl Jam or A Perfect Circle (anything else would get turned off by the manager) but for the most part my co-workers would change it to Ashanti or Backstreet Boys or something equally banal. That job was shit.

valley_parade:
When I worked at a restaurant, we generally just listened to Motorhead in the kitchen all night.

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