Is OTHER wrong in the post ? POST : I secretly have access to the music at many of my work’s locations.  They have control as well, but I can add songs to the queue or change the station completely.  

So it started innocently enough.  

Prince, Lets Go Crazy

Europe, The Final Countdown

Etc.  

Some songs were allowed to play through.  others were clearly axed mid-song and music changed. Never played any explicit lyrics. 

A small group of us are “in” on it and think it’s hilarious.  We expected the password to be changed or that location would have said something in passing to someone else.  And the gig would be up.  

But we even tried to play songs that would clearly indicate someone was trolling them. 

Rick Astley, Never Gonna Give You Up?

Nothing. 

Then....things changed.  

Enter: Baby Shark

Baby Shark almost NEVER gets all the way through the song.  (And it’s only 96 seconds long)

It became a challenge.  “Can we get it through today?”  “I can’t believe I’ve never heard anyone say anything about it.”

So now, once or twice a week I put on Baby Shark. 

For months.  

I’ve never heard a single word of it. 

Until.   This.   Week.  


In a non-work event, one employee from that location was around one from ours, and Baby Shark came on.  And this prompted the story to be told, unknowingly to one of us.  Apparently that location manager is livid when it happens.  He will stop whatever he is doing to go change it.  

I’m told that one time he happened to be in the bathroom when it happened and he was swearing up a storm because he couldn’t turn it off.

He still doesn’t know it’s me.  Our company has a good natured reaction to simple joking around as long as work gets done and nobody has ever gone too far. But his reaction has our small group who are “in the know” divided. 

So, AITA if we continue?   I truly believe that one day something will be said in passing and the gig will be up and we will laugh about it for a couple days.  But I am starting to question if the juice is worth the squeeze.  