At my store I'm already listening to the dude in the phone center remind our Home Depot customers that we have fresh-cut Christmas trees straight from North Carolina in our outside garden center ..... all shift long ..... coming next are the Christmas loop tapes that force me to listen to 10 different versions of every Christmas song ever made for eight hours a day, five days a week - for the next four or five weeks .... gaaaahhhhhhh!!!!
Seems familiar. I was in a similar position when I worked at a chain store with womens clothing during the late 1970's and early 1980's. Keep in mind these were the DISCO years, so I was musically tortured with DISCO versions of Christmas and wintertime tunes. :-) It's a wonder that I, as a musician, remained sane at all. Some of my friends would argue to the contrary of course! ;-/