Songs Can Get you Fired

After two weeks of listening to the same country western songs for 8 hours a day, as a replacement receptionist in a company, I was going out of my mind -- and asked the technology guys to add some of my cds to the collection.

Well, I had them put in an Eagles cd and even had them keep out one of the songs that I knew had some mention of sex. I was so excited to be able to listen to "Hotel California", one of my all-time favorite songs.

Yesterday, while an important client was sitting in the waiting area, waiting for a meeting with one of the CEO's of the company, the Eagle's song "Get Over It" began to play. I had forgotten something though, but was quickly reminded when the lyrics "I'm gonna take your inner-child and kick its little as#@!....."

I froze, as the woman waiting looked up at the ceiling with a puzzled look on her face. I said, "I'll have to have them take that one out of the mix." She half-smiled, reluctently, hopefully thinking that it was on the radio or something.

Luckily, no one who worked there was at the front to hear it. But, if they had, I know I would have gotten a reprimand. Luckily, I am only there for a few more weeks. They should be thankful though that when I first started, I had the tech guys take out songs that were singing about pot and getting drunk, etc... probably not the image they want to have as a company.