Ghost -- This sounds so familiar, and I feel for you!  I used to work in a very small office setting -- maybe 600 sqft -- and the office mgr/receptionist had the radio tuned to the same station every.  single.  day. 

Country music.  Of which I am not a great fan.

And SHE WOULD SING ALONG.  <8-O

I, too, got tired of hearing the same top 20 country songs about wimmin, drinkin', and hertaches over and over and over and over...

I feel your pain ghost.  I get to listen to Savage and Hannity all afternoon thanks to my officemate.  My work life is right out of Office Space.  No joke.  I want to throw that durn radio off the roof most days.  When she is gone sometimes I change it to Jaz or Ralph just to ruffle her feathers a bit.  He he!  BTW- I used to work for KLLY...

Can I have my Swingline back???

AD: I am SO there!!! I will be visiting the local Radio Shack this weekend.

witters: she is an employee, the receptionist. She has been here a while, though, and the boss does whatever is in his power to keep her whining to a minimum. The poor man only wants to retire, after all....

We are thinking of getting a family member to write an "anonymous" letter to the doc complaining of the aforementioned "rolling around between the sheets" music.

Ghost: is the person with the klly fetish the owner of the business or just another employee? If only another employee, ask the "boss" about changing the station.

Lord! that is why I always tried to get jobs that were a "one girl office" setting!!!

Cows like easy listening! Dogs like country!!!!  I like most anything that is not screaming at me, vulgar, profane, and/or rap!!!

Originally, soft background music--so called "elevator music"--was intended to promote a relaxed atmosphere. Doesn't seem to be so these days. I've been put on hold and tortured with metal rock singing, I Want To Kill You.  

I worked in one office where the manager didn't allow any music. He felt it was a distraction. A lot of farmers pipe easy listening into the cow barn. They feel it relaxes the cows at milking time.

If I were in your place, ghost, I'd bring a pair of wire cutters and snip the cord when nobody was looking and look shocked that anybody would do such a thing. In any case, a local radio station is the worst choice for background music. Too many commercials.

ghost ~ I feel for you.

AD~ yeap....*that* is why I strive to be "good" because I could be very,very,very bad if I chose to...LOL

Talk to the boss~ you have tried being reasonable with the co-worker.

When this person turns on the radio and hears Rush, tell her that KLLY has changed to a talk format, and see how far you can push the joke.  ;)

This devious usurper is just trying to lighten things up.  :)

Apollo --- beneath that soft, soulful exterior is a devious usurper trying to get out :o)

I have got to keep that item in mind. Could come in handy for all kinds of music-related situations.

Awesome, Apollo!  LOL!  That is too funny  : D

This is what you do, Ghost:

Radio Shack sells devices that let you listen to CD players or other audio devices through an FM car radio.

Get one of those, and tune it so that it emits its signal on the same frequency as KLLY.  Plug it into the earphone jack of another radio, or some other player.  It can either play something that said person doesn't like (would Rush Limbaugh work?), or it can play something that you do like.

Hide the whole arrangement in a box next the radio, or inside a drawer directly underneath it, if possible.

Then, when said person turns on KLLY, your sound is heard instead.  :)

Really great post, ghostriter! I would suggest your office subscribe to satellite radio. At least for the present time you would gain some diversity on the airwaves, instead of being subjected to today's Debby Boone clones. "You Light Up My ....." gag gag gag.

LOL ghost!  You should write a script for "The Office."  In my old office my supervisor was the master and commander of the radio, and she insisted on listening to the soft rock station.  There was a little more variety than KLLY, but we still heard the same songs over and over again.  There was one song that I hated the first time I heard it and hated it even more with each successive teeth-grating, 15-minute rotation for the next 6 months:  Five For Fighting's "100 Years."  http://www.youtube.com/watc...  They did another song about Superman (or someone did who sounded just like them) and that was another song that drove me crazy. 

The worst was the holidays, when I got burnt out on Christmas music by Dec 1 and was ready to strangle Mariah Carey after the 1,000th time I heard THIS song: http://www.youtube.com/watc....  It was, type to Mariah, answer phone calls to Mariah, get coffee to Mariah, file to Mariah, for weeks and weeks and weeks. 

One brief respite happened after I came up with a temporary solution:  I played one song off my reggae CD for my supervisor, and she liked it, so I just played the whole thing, and she liked it, so we listened to that CD now and then for the next few weeks.  It was nice.  The CD was "50 First Dates," and the songs were well-known 80's songs redone reggae-style.  Here's a compilation of some of the songs:  http://www.youtube.com/watc....  It was very cool being in a strict, Sheriff's Dept office listening to supervisor-sanctioned reggae.  LOL!