Is it dodgy ethics to drive your employees batshit insane?
I once worked in a shop that amongst other things sold music CDs by local musicians.
Whenever a new CD came in we had to play it, and only it, for the entire shift.
8 hours a day, 5 days a week, for at least 2-3 weeks till a new one came in.
The reasoning being that potential customers would come in and say 'ooh thats nice, what is it?
For the first week I could just about fakely enthuse to encourage a sale, after that I'd rather pour molten lead into my ears and didnt give a damn if they bought it or not.
This was one of the contributing factors to my leaving that job. having been caught out listening to the radio several times and pleading for a break from the same fecking CD over and over
The sad thing is, one of the musicians was rather good and under other circumstances I would have liked their music, but having it rammed down my ears for weeks destroyed it.
I dont think they like me too much either as when meeting them later and them asking what i thought of their music I replied 'Sorry I cant bear it any more"
I did explain why but i dont think it went down too well
(insomniac-surfer oh go on then, just this once, Sun 10 Jul 2011, 3:25, 3 replies)

MY mate had a job at Heart FM's head office
where they pumped out Heart FM round the clock.

He had much the same experience, and still can't listen to Kings of Leon
( shinyshinyscalp less a man, more a way of life, Mon 11 Jul 2011, 12:34, closed)

What grips my shit is their jingle "More Music Variety"
...when they actually seem to play the same 10 modern tunes and the same 20 Abba / Michael Jackson classics on rotation.
(moon monkey is busy making memories worth repressing, Mon 11 Jul 2011, 16:26, closed)

Clannad
And Jethro Tull have the same effect on me
(insomniac-surfer oh go on then, just this once, Wed 13 Jul 2011, 0:09, closed)