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Originally Posted by Locke
For Crappy Tire Alumni...
How many times a day did you hear this song over the PA?
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Not once. Thankfully.
We didn't play music over the PA very often. The GM tried it out one time and I hated it. It was during the time that this song was charting and down here in Lethbridge the local radio station that we played on the PA had played that song eleventy times per hour:
I may have gone to the office to disconnect a cable from the stereo system a few times.
Our GM got the grand idea that staff should come up with our own promotions to highlight stock that we want to sell. It could have been something on sale that week or something discontinued and priced to clear or just something we had an overabundance of stock. We had to write our own little PA announcement and do it every 10 or 15 minutes. Departments started to compete with each other... although in retrospect, I think it was just me (in Sports & Seasonal) and one guy in Hardware. I was a former Business student trying to find my true calling (IT) and the other guy was going to school for Multi-Media. I think he worked radio for a bit before selling cars... he could very well be a member on this forum too.
We had an unspoken competition with each other to see who could come up with the funniest and most unique promotion. At one point we were doing our promos every couple of minutes before the boss pulled the plug on those promos. It was fun but very unproductive.