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Phone queue background music
Posted by Phil Pirrip on 20 February 2009 - 12:20pm.
I've just been in contact with the Word's subscription people to sign my life away for another year and whilst I was waiting in the phone queue none other than a Christopher Martin and The Coldplayers tune came wafting out of the handset.
Whilst I don't dislike them in small doses, I was just a bit surprised as they're not what I'd call typical Word cover material. So, does anyone out there have any examples of either very appropriate or hugely inappropriate phone queue music they may have come across?
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Is It just me, or...
... does anyone else expect someone to answer when the song ends?
I had a colleague who, when someone finally answered, would say "Oi, I was listening to that!"
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I had no say in this decision