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Oct. 15th, 2006 08:51 amAnd finally, a weekend. Yay.
The last day of work this week was extremely annoying.
There is music always playing in the store. It comes from some "smart" music service, which adds stuff to the playlist according to people's tastes. Which is not the right thing for a store. But they do have that...
Usually, i'm annoyed at it because as soon as an unwanted song appears in the playlist, a bunch of remixes and others from the artist will appear as suggested songs. And since nobody's there to actually control which get added and which don't, one song in spanish grows into a 3-4h block of ONLY that. Same for remixes of popular ones. That stupid "bye bye miss american pie" song turned into about 2h straight of remixes of it.
But what happened that day... Well, the network had a problem, which caused a disconnect. But instead of stopping playing, it just looped what was in the buffer. So from about 1h30 AM to when i left, it looped the same second and a half of music over and over and over at full volume.
And we couldn't stop it, as nobody had access to the computer room.
I considered quite a few times going up to the ceiling with the order picker and disable the speakers, or even cut the power for a few seconds so that the systems would reset. But that would likely have gotten me in a lot of trouble.
At least, the day went fast-ish, due to being alone in the tools departement and having quite a bit of stuff to do.
And when i got home, i got new blankets!
That made me happy. Now i can burry under them in my bed-box-nest-thing again, and it makes things MUCH quieter too.
I also went to get food with a friend i hadn't seen in almost months. Was good.
And... pretty much all. Except for some random falling alseep too.
The last day of work this week was extremely annoying.
There is music always playing in the store. It comes from some "smart" music service, which adds stuff to the playlist according to people's tastes. Which is not the right thing for a store. But they do have that...
Usually, i'm annoyed at it because as soon as an unwanted song appears in the playlist, a bunch of remixes and others from the artist will appear as suggested songs. And since nobody's there to actually control which get added and which don't, one song in spanish grows into a 3-4h block of ONLY that. Same for remixes of popular ones. That stupid "bye bye miss american pie" song turned into about 2h straight of remixes of it.
But what happened that day... Well, the network had a problem, which caused a disconnect. But instead of stopping playing, it just looped what was in the buffer. So from about 1h30 AM to when i left, it looped the same second and a half of music over and over and over at full volume.
And we couldn't stop it, as nobody had access to the computer room.
I considered quite a few times going up to the ceiling with the order picker and disable the speakers, or even cut the power for a few seconds so that the systems would reset. But that would likely have gotten me in a lot of trouble.
At least, the day went fast-ish, due to being alone in the tools departement and having quite a bit of stuff to do.
And when i got home, i got new blankets!
That made me happy. Now i can burry under them in my bed-box-nest-thing again, and it makes things MUCH quieter too.
I also went to get food with a friend i hadn't seen in almost months. Was good.
And... pretty much all. Except for some random falling alseep too.
