Ok, now I'm all fired up. Who is allowed to make these sorts of decisions and why do the rest of us have to suffer? Of course I'm talking about hideous hold music. Yes, I'm talking about you Next. What is that horrible thing, like some acoustic guitar bubbling fantasy or something. God, I have to put the phone down on the table to get away from it and even that's too close. I can still hear some of the evil bubbling. And why does it have to be the same awful song each time. Couldn't you even spring for maybe even 2 or 3 other ones. I'm sure they will still suck but at least there would be a variety to the pain inflicted.
I used to work at one company that was pretty cool. We rotated through people who could bring in cds for the week for the hold music. Ok, maybe using the Best of the Brady Bunch was too much, but maybe some people enjoyed it. But is it any less painful then using acoustic hell songs? One of the divisions of the company was named Stingray and they were pretty cool because they used the theme song for the old Stingray tv show. It was actually kind of nice getting put on hold, a groovy rocking sort of surf song.
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when i worked at the bank, i was put on hold by the operations department. i found myself humming along with the hold music, and realized it was the theme to "the partridge family." i also heard themes to "the monkees," "the brady bunch," and a few other tv shows. i later found out that one of the employees in that department had a cd of tv theme songs, and had made a tape to play as hold music. the funniest part was that the tape played way too slow, so it sounded like listening to a tape player in which the battery was running down.
when i underwrote insurance on the big rigs, one dealer had hold music that was a big ad for the services offered with the chorus (sung in the most overwrought voice imaginable) "we're in it for for the long haul!" because they sold long haul trucks, get it?
You haven't heard anything util you've been put on hold at New York City College of Technology's Adult Learning Center. It is a noise from the depths of Hell. You will hear the screaming and screaching of the tortured and near death. The starved and the insane crying out for relief from the horrible, horrible tricks there mind is playing on their psyche. Once you hear it, you will be forever initiated into the life of the broken mind.
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