You office workers know what we mean. Many offices have Halloween traditions – costume parties, pumpkins filled with candy and awards given out to the most believable ghost, goblin or ghoul. Yes, Halloween can be the best day of the year when you work in an office.

That is, unless you work here.

Unfortunately, we don’t have time for all of those Halloween office traditions. While other corporations are passing out candy to their office workers, we’re busy plugging in dates for Korn and updating listings for Shania Twain and April Wine. Nope. Can’t spare the time to indulge in a little Halloween fun. You won’t find any candy in our offices. That’s a tradition that never caught on here.

Then there are those businesses that go all out for their employees on Halloween. Businesses whose traditions call for costume parties where workers dress up as their favorite ghastly characters like the Headless Horseman, the Wicked Witch of the West or John Ashcroft. But not here. We don’t have time for that because we have to update touring schedules for bands like Broken Social Scene and artists like Peter Frampton and Christopher Cross. We just don’t have enough time for those Halloween traditions at Pollstar.com.

Then there are those corporations that take pride in pushing the envelope on Halloween. They make up their offices to look like haunted houses, mystical swamps or dark and scary forests. They bring in fog machines and mood lighting while the audio system plays shrieks, moans and groans. Yeah, that’s some Halloween tradition. However, we’re sad to say, we don’t follow any tradition like that at Pollstar.com. We’re way too busy slamming in new dates for Eagle-Eye Cherry and Turin Brakes.

When you get right down to it, if you work in any office but here, you’re probably dressed as a specter or monster as you read this. Your coworkers are probably whooping it up down the hall, and the candy is everywhere. You’re probably having the best time of your life right now as your office follows one of those Halloween traditions we just mentioned. And to be honest, we wish we could join you, but we still have to post the schedules for Bleu and Curtis Salgado. So enjoy your company’s Halloween traditions. We know we would. That is, if only we could.

But instead it’s just work, work and more work here at Pollstar.com. We have no time for all those great Halloween traditions. No time for costumes, monsters, parties and mayhem. Nope. Not today. Sigh…

Instead, we’ll just have to make due with our customary routine of getting naked during the afternoon break and giving each other full-body massages.

After all, it is Halloween, and there are some traditions that you just don’t want to mess with.