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Post by impulse on Jun 4, 2018 10:59:34 GMT -5
So company recently hired some new folks who seem to like to sing at their desk while we work which is incredibly distracting. I wear noise isolating headphones, but human voices notoriously cut through that stuff, and I don't have enough hearing left to risk playing music loud enough to drown them out. They're also family friends/otherwise affiliated with my management so there is some political risk to complaining. I feel like I'm stuck between a rock and a hard place. A loud rock and noisy hard place. Might be time to dust off the old resume.
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Post by hondobrode on Jun 4, 2018 11:46:46 GMT -5
Good luck impulse.
That would be a tough environment to work in.
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Post by impulse on Jun 4, 2018 12:14:24 GMT -5
Thanks. I'm buying some earplugs now to wear under my headphones. I hope the combination with music is enough to block them out so I can concentrate. What a ridiculous situation to find myself in. And these aren't teenage interns or something. I think they're 30-ish.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 4, 2018 12:27:52 GMT -5
Why am I thinking Impulse's co-workers learned their workplace behavior from this...
-M
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Post by Icctrombone on Jun 4, 2018 12:32:12 GMT -5
Sing along with them.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 4, 2018 12:32:32 GMT -5
Thanks. I'm buying some earplugs now to wear under my headphones. I hope the combination with music is enough to block them out so I can concentrate. What a ridiculous situation to find myself in. And these aren't teenage interns or something. I think they're 30-ish. That's an excellent idea that you've thought of.
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Post by impulse on Jun 4, 2018 13:30:04 GMT -5
Haha. Unlike them, I'm both considerate of those around me and also aware that my singing voice is terrible. Thanks. I'm buying some earplugs now to wear under my headphones. I hope the combination with music is enough to block them out so I can concentrate. What a ridiculous situation to find myself in. And these aren't teenage interns or something. I think they're 30-ish. That's an excellent idea that you've thought of. Thanks. I'm trying to read up if it's actually safe with the vibrations. Even if it's not safe enough to listen to the music, it might be worth the silence just to not hear it. I am continually disappointed with the growing self-entitlement and lack of consideration in this country.
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Post by Prince Hal on Jun 4, 2018 13:45:30 GMT -5
Haha. Unlike them, I'm both considerate of those around me and also aware that my singing voice is terrible. That's an excellent idea that you've thought of. Thanks. I'm trying to read up if it's actually safe with the vibrations. Even if it's not safe enough to listen to the music, it might be worth the silence just to not hear it. I am continually disappointed with the growing self-entitlement and lack of consideration in this country. Ditto. Why is it that people who chat on a cellphone in the supermarket line are (a) inevitably speaking at a much higher volume than they would if engaged in a face-to face conversation; (b) are so immured within their own space that they can't be bothered being involved in any way with the cashier; (c) never do their own bagging?
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Post by Deleted on Jun 4, 2018 14:07:56 GMT -5
impulse -- I am continually disappointed with the growing self-entitlement and lack of consideration in this country. what you've written in italic is so true and I've often experienced this too. It's so sad that people in this country don't respect your concerns and only them is all they cared about. So sad, but true to the letter ...
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Post by impulse on Jun 4, 2018 14:46:55 GMT -5
To clarify a little about the mechanics, it sounds like playing music on your headphones loud enough to over power ear plugs may not be safe after all due to excessive vibrations, but I am still putting the noise-isolating headphones over earplugs and just not playing anything. The noise reduction is immense. I've alternately tried puttingin the earplug in the ear closest to the noise and leaving it out of the other and putting the music at what would be a normal volume for the one ear so I can mostly block them out while not sitting in total silence. Neither is ideal, but either is better than listening to the rudeness.
As to people in general, yeah. It's gotten to the point where I flat-out do not enjoy going to the movies anymore because invariably someone is talking. EVERY. Time. I do not even remember the last time I went to a movie where nobody talked. It's been years. At least a decade? I remember in the early aughts being at a movie where someone had the audacity to actually answer their cell phone during the climactic scene of a movie and the rest of the patrons at least being audibly outraged. Now I feel like no one would even care.
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Post by lobsterjohnson on Jun 4, 2018 16:08:22 GMT -5
Wow, that sounds incredibly irritating. Do they sing through the whole day?
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Post by Icctrombone on Jun 4, 2018 18:10:50 GMT -5
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Post by Cei-U! on Jun 4, 2018 21:08:17 GMT -5
Chapter 4 is done!!!
Cei-U! I summon the big ol' "whew"!
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Post by impulse on Jun 5, 2018 9:43:17 GMT -5
Wow, that sounds incredibly irritating. Do they sing through the whole day? Not usually constantly, but on and off, and sometimes for large chunks. On Friday, one guy did it pretty much nonstop for the last 90 minutes of the day. You monster.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jun 5, 2018 17:46:10 GMT -5
Number two son is now on a plane to Africa where he'll be for 27 months. Dropped him at the Salt Lake Airport Sunday morning. My brother picked him up in DC and they had dinner before he dropped him off at his hotel. He spent yesterday getting his government passport and whatnot at the Peace Corps office. Him on the left, with my youngest son in the middle.
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