ENUFF JINGLE BELLS !!!
p2pnet.net News:- Nerve jangling jingle bells must be silenced for the sake of shop workers’ sanity, say activists.
[Not only shopworkers - Ed]
“Christmas music in shops is ‘torture’, the ‘forgotten pollutant’ which shop workers must be able to silence for the sake of their sanity, according to activists, trade unions and a peer,” says Out-Law.com.
So the UK government is being asked to investigate.
“Campaigners and trades unions have spoken out about the playing of Christmas music in shops over an ever-extending festive period and the psychological effects that the repetitive tunes can have on staff who have no choice but to listen to it,” says the story.
“If people don’t want it and if they have a negative response to it and if they’re exposed to something continually, the same songs over and over, it’s no different to being tortured, it’s the same reaction, the body will react in the same way,”
Val Weedon, national coordinator of the UK Noise Association, is quoted as saying, “We are asking government to investigate this particular area and to look into whether it is something that the Health and Safety Executive could take on board.”
And Out-Law.com has shop workers’ union Usdaw’s (Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers) Paul Clarke saying, “Our first port of call would be our officials or reps talking to managers and saying we’re sick of listening to Little Drummer Boy for the 15th time today could we change the CD over?”
Though the legal barrier for proving Christmas music psychological distress would be high, “the campaigners said they will not give up,” says the story.
Jingle Bells was written in 1857, says Wikipedia.
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Also See:
Out-Law.com – Government is asked to investigate Christmas music torture, December 14, 2006
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December 15th, 2006 at 4:39 am
this is sick
December 16th, 2006 at 12:59 am
Same songs, different singers, different arrangements. No new Christmas songs.
And this is damn annoying.