Eh. I work in retail and hear it all the time - maybe it's just my cynical irritation coming through, but I absolutely can't stand it. I can't stand the fandom. I can't stand how generic they are.
They're literally just the next Mcfly or Busted all over again, and I couldn't stand them either.

im glad to work somewhere that has a good music selection. id go mad if I worked anywhere else.

We used to have a great music playlist - loads of great rock classics etc. Then a new manager took over and now it's constant top r&b and house tracks from dawn until dusk.

We use music from audiosparx to save money on licensing. It's absolutely miserable.

An example of what we have to put up with:
https://www.audiosparx.com/sa/summary/play.cfm/crumb.2/crumc.0/sound_iid.629195

i'd love it if my work had some banging house tunes

Jimmy Johns hires a private company to curate our playlists so we get quite the impressive blend of classic and modern music from just about every genre. Ive been thinking of making a list abotu it called "jimmy Jams" huehue.

Also Tuna that sounds absolutely dreadful.

It gets worse, so much worse

http://www.audiosparx.com/sa/summary/play.cfm/crumb.20/sound_iid.620217

mmmm, those stock instrument riffs.

We used to have a great thing for new starters - you were allowed to pick any 10 songs you wanted to add to the playlist, as long as they weren't offensive. It was great cause you all got to add your style and we all had something to enjoy.
They were good times.

oh my god I just found a video for one of them and it's hilarious

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPI4qUxhYjs

it must suck to get a stuck up manager ruin something like that.

"oh my god I just found a video for one of them and it's hilarious"

thats some tim and eric bs right there.

@Aerisavion that sounds like a great idea, wish we did that. When I started working where I am now they actually did play real music, mostly top 40 music of the last 5 years or so. Then in December they went down the stock music route.

His argument was 'the music is for the customers, not us.'
I guess I could get that, but it really killed staff enthusiasm when it first happened. It used to really help a busy crappy day when a song you picked came on.

Sound argument but I rarely hear anyone comment about the music at a workplace unless its some old 70/80s song that "brings them back". at the very least allow employees to mix their own music in with what is being offered. Playlist Generation used to let you do that before they updated their client for Jimmy Johns.

The only time I ever hear anyone comment on the music is when someone says "what the fuck is this?".
Seriously using stock music just makes your shop look cheap and tacky, the only place where it's ever acceptable to use it is in the pound shop.

The customers used to love our rock focused playlist. We still get people (a couple of years later now) saying how our music used to be 'good' haha

thats unfortunate, I myself have never heard anyone questioning the music at our workplace mostly because we only have about 6 "bad" songs in our couple hundred track shuffle so hearing them is awful rare.

You guys are making me really jealous right now.

i worked at subway for about a month and the only music was this bargain bin Boards of Canada rip-off that would loop after every 10 minutes