Our tune
What on earth motivates the choice of hold music? In my last workplace I didn't even realise that we hold music until I rang in one day to say I would be late. Terrible crimes against music were being perpetrated via our telephones, the worst examples of midi lift Muzak I had ever heard. Needless to say I turned it off, and changed it for a nice computer voice telling people they were on hold every 20 seconds, with some inoffensive bleeping in between (the choices were limited, and there was no 'upload your tune here' option).
At the moment I am on hold to IT and for some reason they have chosen a tasteless midi version of the music from France Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet (more popularly known for its use on Our Tune).It is driving me round the bend, and I am just wondering why on earth IT thought that the romantically-tinged midi strains of Our Tune would inspire me to continue to hold rather then destroy the telephone with a sledgehammer.
I would like to know what the readers of achingbrain have heard while on hold, either truly awful or pleasantly surprising. My personal favourite is the one at my Dad's office, a marine salvaging and surveying company, where they have chosen to greet callers with the Titanic soundtrack (with its terrible midi choir, but that's another blog in itself) - awful music, but appropriately snigger-worthy given the line of business.
Alternatively please join Pipedown in their crusade against ear-assaulting piped Muzak in general.
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