Worst telephone "Music on Hold"

[Michael Weiss]

Airlines, banks, credit card companies, utility companies.... I've had a few pleasant surprises, but most of the time it's pretty bad, especially when you're stuck on hold for who knows how long and are forced to listen to the most inane, repetitive, awful crap.

Post your "on hold" nightmares here.

I'll start:

IBERIAN AIRLINES

[CraigP]

Can you remember what music they were playing?

[Michael Weiss]

I can't really describe it other than four bars of the worst home-studio amateur shit repeated over and over.

800-772-4642

Obviously the longer one has to stay on hold the worse it seems.

[johnblitweiler]

I spent much of today in at&t telephone-hold hell. Prolonged exposure to awful music wears down the soul, so that even a pre-high-school-level version of "Girl from Ipanema" was welcome relief from the rest of the stuff on the line.