Erin The Great

In my place of employment, we have the misfortune of having what is called Musak. Musak is a cornucopia of crappy music that some higher realm of establishment has deemed worthy and appropriate for the work place.

This is a far cry from when I started almost 3 years ago. We were lucky enough not to have the musak stations. We had to make due with a stereo that enabled us to listen to good but also appropriate music. When our corporate first put in the evil system, we had access to over 900 music stations. This was nice especially since you could find just about anything you wanted to listen to. Now, we only have access to 20 of the worst music stations alive. The music changes daily depending on who is working. It firsts starts out with really bad country, really bad emo, and then moves toward the oldies. When we’re sick of oldies we change it to the top 40 station where the music variety never seems to change.

Everyday my fellow co-workers and I go verbal rounds against the really bad variety we have been stuck with. I imagine hell having Musak… or a compilation CD with Yoko Ono, Sinead O’Conner, Muse, Hilary Duff, and Courtney Love. Ask ANY music lover about Musak and they’ll all tell you about the evil poser-istic nature that ‘is’ Musak.

I miss the good old days of decent music that didn’t have me secretly hoping someone would come to rob the place and then shoot us all, putting us out of our misery.