Endless carols endless torture, groups say
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LONDON, Dec. 24 Forcing store clerks to listen to the same holiday music over and over could be akin to torture and should change, a British noise pollution group said.The UK Noise Association and labor unions are suggesting legal action on behalf of store employees who listen to endless looped recordings of holiday music, the Observer said Sunday.What we are saying is that, if Christmas carols are being played on the same CD repeatedly, that could create an unhealthy working environment. It must drive people to distraction, said Paul Clarke, spokesman for the Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers. Exposure to the same music constantly is no different to being tortured, added Val Weedon, the noise association ' s national coordinator. Legal action could be difficult. An employment lawyer said employees would have to demonstrate that their employers could reasonably foresee any illness.This means there would have to be some form of notice that an employee had some vulnerability to Christmas music, the ill health in question, or both, the lawyer said. Copyright 2006 by UPI
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Christmas music + retail = torture
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Jessica ,
Mon, 25 Dec 2006 09:27:20 GMT
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I've worked retail for 4.5 years, and I agree with this article. After working my first Christmas season as a clerk I absolutely hated Christmas music. Hearing Christmas music would just make me angry and stress me out. Grrr.
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Endless Carols vs. Self-Control
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Eric Draves ,
Mon, 25 Dec 2006 00:57:20 GMT
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As a store clerk who is forced to listen to continuous Christmas music while at work, I am not as appalled as some people are. I have learned to tune it out after years of this.
However, the music is an affirmation of those whose beliefs hold that December 25th has anything to do with Jesus. People with conflicting beliefs are being swallowed up each year by the deluge of those insisting on being as loud in professing Christmas as possible.
There is no music to commemorate NOT celebrating Christmas.
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