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    Sex on the PA

    A story from FA, when our manager and he worked together in a nearby small-town format store.

    The satellite music that normally played over the PA was down several days for some reason. Manager got the idea to play his MP3 player over the PA system until the satellite music came back up. District manager was fine with this, as long as nothing objectionable was being played, and was even prepared to send a memo to the other stores in the district indicating that this would be okay to do if their music was down.

    All was well until the Kings of Leon song "Sex On Fire" queued up. Then some old woman demanded a manager (which turned out to be our current manager) and hollered at him in the most stereotypical old-woman voice you can imagine "I'M TRYING TO DO MY SHOPPING AND YOU'RE PLAYING THIS DIRTY SONG ABOUT THIS GUY'S SEX BEING ON FIRE."

    He apologized. Impressively he kept a straight face while doing so.
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    If there had been a radio station playing, who's to say it wouldn't have shown up anyway?
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      Perhaps the mp3 had the unedited version?
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        I wish our overhead music would cut out; it's horrible. Whoever picked the tunes needs a good

        Some of the songs are okay, but far too many are awful covers of originally good songs, all done by this incredibly bland-voiced woman. I'd like to give her a as well.
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        • #5
          I was disappointed to hear that this wasn't a case of someone in the office getting it on at work and brushing the PA button.
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            XC - Probably just Muzak with lyrics. Likely to be much, much less expensive to license.
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            • #7
              Quoth WishfulSpirit View Post
              I was disappointed to hear that this wasn't a case of someone in the office getting it on at work and brushing the PA button.
              You too...or at least something embarrassing over the PA.
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              • #8
                I've always tried to tune out overhead music ever since working at Best Buy my senior year in HS...and having to listen to "Baby One More Time" for 3 months every 40 minutes.

                /wrists
                /feeds self to woodchipper

                I once worked at a campus bookstore in Denver, and during the Avalanche playoffs (the year after they last won The Cup), we tried to put the game over the PA - but the manager said no since we were a state agency and the commercials were a no-no.

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                • #9
                  Quoth WishfulSpirit View Post
                  I was disappointed to hear that this wasn't a case of someone in the office getting it on at work and brushing the PA button.
                  Lol that's what I thought it was going to be about. Disappointed also!

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