Title: Change my mind: mandatory music is the worst part of service jobs
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For one summer in college, I worked at a bagel shop near campus. The owners were super Christian and the employees... were not. The owners insisted on only playing the Christian/Evangelical rock station on the speakers in the shop. It was fine most of the time, but there were some songs that were so cheesy it was hard not to laugh. 1015
One of the had little kid voices repeating "God is Great" in super sappy, saccharine voices for like 3 straight minutes. That one got pretty annoying. The owners never wanted to get up for the early shift, so the baristas and I would always change the radio as soon as we started. Whoever was on the register would keep an eye on the parking lot and shout as soon as she saw the owners car pulling into the lot. Then we'd race to the radio and change the station back to the Christian station. I don't think the owners ever caught us and it was so worth it 430