Today, the Salvation Army stationed one of their obnoxious bell-ringers in the mall right outside my store. My employees and I can wave goodbye to any form of sanity for the next month. FML
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Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, the mall I work at started playing Christmas songs on repeat. It's the beginning of November. FML
Today, my boss insisted that we get in the holiday mood by putting up lights, playing Christmas music, and wearing bells on our uniforms. It's not even Thanksgiving yet and I can't even have a tinkle without full-blown jingling. FML
Today, at my job at the mall, our music malfunctioned and now will only play the same three songs over and over again. Our manager won't let us turn it off because "the customers won't notice". FML
Today, my neighbor installed a large radio that loudly plays Christmas music 24/7. When I called in a complaint to the police department they told me to, "get in the Christmas spirit." FML
Today, my manager made everyone put up Christmas decorations around the store. As well as this, we're going to have Christmas music playing on repeat all the way through to January. It's not even September yet. FML
Today, the block where I work had mandatory all-storefront works. I had to be there. The workers asked me for my ladder, cord extensions, driller, complained for 4 hours, and didn't clean after them. Now they're in front of my shop, loudly mocking my looks and clothes, I can hear them through the door. Nice day. FML
Today, I dinged a desk-bell at head office and everyone burst into a round of applause for me. I was reamed by HR and served written notice to not ding the bell, because, "Only agents are allowed ding the bell, and only when they close a sale." Sorry, I didn't know about the bell guys. FML
Today, I came home to find my parents wearing Santa hats and blasting Christmas music at full volume. So begins three months of hell. FML
Today, at my workplace, a TV was installed just above my register at work which plays the same mind-numbingly awful 13 second ad on loop for the duration of our latest sale. The sale lasts for what are going to be three very long weeks. FML
Today, my boss threw a pre-Christmas party at work. He always uses them to rant at us and tell us to be better employees. When the speech began, the alarm I have set for my daily birth control went off. It's the sound of an obnoxious screaming child. FML
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WCARlover 35
Anyone working in retail in the month of December can kiss sanity goodbye anyway...Christmas shopping brings out the crazy in people quite well
KittyLahv 27
I can only imagine OP walking around the store with those headphones on yelling at the customers, "ARE YOU FINDING EVERYTHING OKAY?!"
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jdcg116 10
Better that little ringing bell than the sounds of gunfire and explosives right outside your door. Move to the Middle East for 6 months then compare the two lifestyles.
smokecloud_ 37
You can get that in America too. (reads OP's location) Ok, probably not Canada.
RBW_Slave 9
Talk to the mall management. Maybe you could convince them to have the bell ringer move around the mall to different locations each day.
jeanyrios 10
Be thankful for the bell. Last week as we left a wholesale retail store the woman tending to the Salvation Army collection tin was harassing people, not with the bell, but with her words. "HELLO! DON'T YA' HEAR THE BELL!? COME GIVE MONEY HERE!" "HEY, YOU! DON'T LIE TO ME I SEE THE BILLS IN YOUR HAND. YOU DIDN'T USE A BANK CARD". She spoke like that to EVERYONE passing by.
yuggi1 11
lol I work for a Blood Bank as a phlebotomist. I'm mostly stationed in the mobiles. Sometimes some of our recruiters get like that. Makes me want to cringe.
ARealCarrot 11
Thats just rude of them
depressionista 17
Come on its for a good cause :/
teentee401 37
The bell ringing might be annoying, but it's for a good cause. So I don't think that should mean they're obnoxious.
KayyKaylyn 14
Stop being an asshole OP
PinkasaurusRex 25
I agree that it can get annoying hearing it constantly but it is for a good cause. You'll probably learn to just tune it out soon enough. :)
CrazyMelvin 14
If we give enough, will they stop ringing? Seriously, just tune it out. Yes, it can be annoying, but Salvation Army is a good organization
xluciferx666 21
I no longer have any respect those bastards