Leading Economic Indicator

We have a PA system at work that also plays music in the background. Usually the music is innocuous and almost unnoticeable unless you're unlucky enough to be located right under a speaker. It does get a bit annoying around the holidays, when the rotation of the same forty-odd Christmas songs is played day after day after day from the time you come back from Thanksgiving until the Christmas break. Most of the time though it's a non-factor.

But lately, one particular song featured on the PA play list has become the plague of my mornings: Cats In The Cradle by Harry Chapin. Good Lord, is there another song that so malevolently assaults your sunny disposition and sucks the will to work live right out of your very soul?

There has to be a inversely proportional relationship between the amount of time one spends listening to Harry Chapin and one's productivity. Why in the world any company would choose to subject its workforce to such spirit-crushing music is beyond me. All I know is that if this continues, we run the risk of dragging the entire economy into a recession. And you know we won't have a good time then.