View Poll Results: Do you listen to the radio at work
I work by myself, so nobody cares
25
46.30%
Limited formats/ limited time
15
27.78%
They blast us with propoganda instead
5
9.26%
Silence and hearing pins drop are the order of the day
9
16.67%
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Radios at work?
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Joined: Mar 2005
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From: Goldsboro, NC
I can't listen to the radio at work, not over the air waves anyway. We're in some old building downtown that has enough shielding to block kryptonite. I'm bulding a secret bomb shelter in the storage room. OOPS...I guess it's not a secret now!
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Hotshot
Joined: Oct 2002
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From: The Big, Oregon
The thing I don't understand is that I -am- the shop. The store manager does deliveries and listens to the radio in the truck all day, the girls in the office play music over the computer but turn it way down when the owner walks in. I usually play some of the better classic rock and heavy metal, nothing like Rammstein, not too loud. I can't use headphones because I need to hear the phone and talk to customers if they have any real questions the girls can't answer.
It gets real boring, even when I'm running around working on stuff, without any music playing.
It gets real boring, even when I'm running around working on stuff, without any music playing.
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Joined: Apr 2004
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From: NJ
Originally Posted by GlennFordx4
Gota have tunes I think I would kill somebody if I had to work without some kind radio or tv going in the back ground of my shop.
I dont understand how people could work in silence all day.
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From: Spotsylvania, VA
I work at a small european-owned company. Everyone on the shop floor has radios on at reasonable volumes. Everyone up in engineering (where i work) has headphones that they listen to their own music with. My boss has a radio on his desk that is on REALLY low, barely audible but he's never at his desk.
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From: South...
Originally Posted by captain p4
Well, at my -(lawncare technician)- job we listen to the radio when in the truck going from lawn to lawn, and at my other job as a -(Food handling engineer)- there is a radio in the back where all the -(Food handling engineers)- wait for their orders to come up and there is a radio there, and obviously i listen to the radio while i'm driving the food to its destination.
..like my job titles?
..like my job titles?
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From: Damascus-Boring, Ore
OT- I even saved captain p4's avatar on the computer in case he ever decided, in a fit of insanity, to change it.
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From: Las Vegas, NV
Honest to goodness I drive My vehicle out to several different job sites each day, and the boss told me I could not listen to the radio at any time while I was on his time. Yeh right what a dumba$$. When I get a phone call or nextel radio call I just turn MY radio off. Now I am on tele-nav-track where the boss knows where I am all day. I suppose soon he will be able to tell if my radio is on. 
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From: Northeast LA
There really wasn't an answer to fit me either. I work in a cube all day with people right across the little "wall". So I wear headphones and listen to Internet radio usually KNAC.com or CD's that I have saved on the hard drive. A few people have radios but they are turned down really low and all they play is country.
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What would the people that come into Ivan's place say if they heard the line before "Skeet, Skeet, Skeet, Skeet"!!
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Last edited by jsutton; Jul 17, 2006 at 12:02 PM.
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Joined: Jul 2003
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From: Calgary, Canada
Personally, I couldn't stand hearing music/radio in an office... too distracting. then again, I'm very picky about what I listen to and the only radio station around here with music/personalities that don't suck is a 100% talk radio station, so I could probably listen to that, or maybe a cd that I burned... however, anyone within earshot would probably complain as I like country, hip-hop, metallica and AC/DC.
I guess I should mention that the only time I can hear a radio at my current job is while driving to a worksite, which is usually anywhere from 2 - 6 hours a day, I listen to the radio, talk radio.
I guess I should mention that the only time I can hear a radio at my current job is while driving to a worksite, which is usually anywhere from 2 - 6 hours a day, I listen to the radio, talk radio.
Last edited by furball69; Jul 17, 2006 at 12:03 PM.
The Pacifier
Joined: Jan 2003
Posts: 8,245
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From: Cloverdale, BC
Originally Posted by websthes
when i take a company pickup i like to erase all the french stations and replace them with english ones. gives the french guys something different to complain about. 
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Originally Posted by bigrigfixer
Back when I was a kid delivering parts at a Ford dealer, I'd sneak into the other driver's trucks and change all the stations to French, Chinese, or Indian. Then, I'd turn the heat on full blast in the summer, max AC in the winter, wipers on high, then knock their mirrors out of whack.
funny, funny.