View Poll Results: Were they right to give me an official warning? Or are they just boring & stuffy?

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    Unhappy I've had a ticking off!

    OK, I've been a baaaaad boy as-per usual & been served with yet another verbal warning. Thing is, this place is dead stuffy & people are a bit antequated & stuffy. Now the company's phone system has a remote CD player which plays the company's very expensive & professional promo CD when outside callers are put on hold. Well I don't know about you but I always find these things dead tedious, so I took it apon myself to inject a little culture into the process & give the poor sods in 'on hold' land a little something to listen to.

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    Monday - Ravi Shankar - A Morning Raga and an Evening Raga
    Tuesday - Rolling Stones - You can't always get what you want
    Wednesday - Dr Feelgood - Malpractice
    Thursday - Agnostic Front - Cause for Alarm

    Now in hindsight the move from classic british R&B to classic US Hardore wasn't the wisest move. And that is indeed what sparked a complaint.
    So when the perverbial hit the fan I owned up, lest someone else take the wrap & the MD roasted my ass over a high flame for 15 mins or so untill crispy & well done. Personally I think they were over reacting a bit & having a sense of humour by-pass. How long could it hav lasted if I'd kept pumping in non-offensive stuff?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Blitzen
    When I say go, both walk in the opposite direction for 10 paces, draw handbags, then bitch-slap each other!

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    depends. how much of the music was obscene, racist & homophobic?

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    tricky one......

    how long was it in place for ?

    what sort of service are they dialing up for ? (if its a funeral home then it might not be ideal )
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    Quote Originally Posted by directhex
    depends. how much of the music was obscene, racist & homophobic?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Moby-Dick
    tricky one......

    how long was it in place for ?

    what sort of service are they dialing up for ? (if its a funeral home then it might not be ideal )
    We manufacture industrial water screening plant. No material was that bad. Nothing I dont play when my 3yr old's around.
    Last edited by 0iD; 27-01-2005 at 04:39 PM.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Blitzen
    When I say go, both walk in the opposite direction for 10 paces, draw handbags, then bitch-slap each other!

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    How bad was the original CD?

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    Surely "Take me to the River" would have been more appropriate?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Deckard
    Surely "Take me to the River" would have been more appropriate?
    Or maybe even singing in the rain? Bad Jokes (c) Frank Carson
    Last edited by Zedmeister; 27-01-2005 at 04:45 PM.

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    I bet you any money that at the company dinner dance the MD will be laughing his socks off about it & buy me a pint. Usually happens that way.
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    When I say go, both walk in the opposite direction for 10 paces, draw handbags, then bitch-slap each other!

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    is it against the law to broadcast the music over the phone line without licensing?

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    My manager put Queen on the hold-music one day. Apparantly we got loads of complaints. Shame I wasn't there.

    Funnily enough he looks like Freddie Mercury.
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    Quote Originally Posted by 5cupa
    is it against the law to broadcast the music over the phone line without licensing?
    I have no idea. Shoulda checked eh.
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    When I say go, both walk in the opposite direction for 10 paces, draw handbags, then bitch-slap each other!

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    Yep - you need to pay your public broadcast licence fee (forget the name of the organisation that does it now) if you want to do anything like that.

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    well what ever you play down the phone I'm sure its way way better than the useless tosh that most companies have going, musak etc...
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    Should have put Throwdown's cover of "Baby got back" on repeat dude... I'd ask to be put on hold just to hear that.

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    even better - you should have grabbed that annoying frog dance remix that radio 1 keep playing all the time and then put that on.

    Would have been a quiet afternoon after that

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