Endless Christmas Carols Irk Czech Clerks
Leave it to my pal Geoffle Weffle Pie to find this gem. Would that more people make these complaints :-)
Endless Christmas Carols Irk Czech Clerks
Labor unions in the Czech Republic demanded Monday that stores stop playing Christmas carols incessantly or pay compensation for causing emotional trauma to sales clerks.[from the terminal of Geoff Goodfellow]Some stores here play the same songs all day -- and play them loudly. Employees say shifts have become unbearable.
"To listen to it for eight hours a day is not healthy, that's for sure," said Alexandr Leiner, a union leader. "And for the customers, it's almost unbearable as well."
Leiner said unions have written to major chains, such as Tesco, and demanded that employees be compensated. He said the unions want 500 koruna (US$19) or two days off as a possible compensation. They've received no response. ... (AP)