Being trialled at our place. Radio 2 will be on in the background for a week.
Driving me bonkers!
Do I speak up and make myself look like the miserable bastard that I am, or put up with it?
Speak up.
Speak up.
This also has an added advantage….
https://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/work/headphones-means-fk-off-20180725175642
So the situation is that the people who used to listen to the radio on headphones now have it out loud, and those that didn't now have headphones on the drown it out.
In my office it’s the local radio station or radio 2 if we have the radio on as that’s about all the crappy thing can get clearly. Then people are in teams calls talking away and as I suffer with adhd and find it hard to concentrate at the best of times I find the best solution is some Bose noise cancelling headphones and to retreat into my own little world.
Ask them if they've got / paid for the PPL-PRS licence, that might put a stop to the trial 😀
In my office it’s the local radio station or radio 2 if we have the radio on as that’s about all the crappy thing can get clearly
Do you work in 1996?
Being trialled at our place. Radio 2 will be on in the background for a week.
Driving me bonkers!
Posted Monday 8.17am - you really didn't give it a go did you 🤣
Everyone refuse to buy a new radio and as I pretty much hate commercial radio with all the bullshit waffle I rather stick to my own music.
R2 was the default station in the workshop I used to work in after I graduated. I used to really like it when it was Wogan in the morning and Johnnie Walker in the evening. It seems to be a very different thing these days though - I mean Sara ****ing Cox?!?! You'd think they'd have learned when she broke Radio1.
Posted Monday 8.17am - you really didn't give it a go did you
To be fair if you were subjected to Scott Mills first thing on a Monday you'd be peeved off too! 😜
Greg James is a far better option.
The trial started last Friday, so I'm already 8 hours in.
I would strongly object. Even at the age of 16 when I was working in the school holidays assembling carpet sample books I surreptitiously disconnected the speaker above my work station.
Put a request in for a different station - Radio 4 Extra is ok for background noise...
I'm in the 'I need the radio on' to work camp - it's on all day.
I am struggling for a decent afternoon DJ though. They are all devoid of character - really miss Shaun Keaveny.
sounds like a good case to Work from Home.
if they want to listen to something, they should be the ones getting headphones.
When I worked at the sorting office the radio had a strict rota for changing stations every few hours. At least everyone was equally pissed off
Everyone refuse to buy a new radio and as I pretty much hate commercial radio with all the bullshit waffle I rather stick to my own music
I presume the radio is next to the fax machine?
You better hope and pray that nobody in the office finds out about the internet and the whole world of horrors awaiting there to be streamed
For example… did you know there are stations that play nothing but Christmas music all day, every day?
I know this as the women in the office had it on last week, before threats were soon issued for what would happen if it wasn’t immediately turned off (radio/sledgehammer interface)
I thnk I've mentioned before, in my last place I became The Enemy. The helpdesk were moved into the same office as us and were used to having the radio on all day. I can't stand the radio. Had it turned off. You could feel the hatred directed across the office, every day. Best times! I hate people.
I’d object. Can’t abide R2. However I do work with the dulcet tones of Georgia Mann in the morning on R3. Longer pieces, less talk makes working much easier.
I also hate people, which is why I work from home as much as I can and, when I am obliged to visit the office, I take noise cancelling headphones with me. I can put them on, load up Spotify with 90's/00' hard house, techno and trance and focus on what is important.
Workplace radio is terrible, whatever you choose you'll be sick of it after a day or so. You need to change the station frequently.
Heart 90's is usually the default at my place, that's what it always gets sneaked back onto if anything else is tried for a while. Or Heart 80's. Or Heart. Heart dance would be better, but our radio doesn't get that.
No BBC stations last long because "there's too much talking." Yet the lengthy commercial breaks and the same adverts over and over again are perfectly fine.
Why anyone wants to listen to the likes of Eagle Eye Cherry, 4 non blondes, the goo goo dolls and Top loader on repeat is beyond me. It's music for people who aren't actually interested in music.
6music is sometimes left on after a night shift and god forbid it's on for a little while in the day before someone notices. There'll be much moaning about how bloody awful it is (not always unwarranted to be fair) but then it gets switched over to heart, we hear 5 minutes of adverts then return of the mack comes on. Again. And no one bats an eye lids. It's all very odd.
Oh and whamageddon happened on Thursday last week.
I'd object sooner rather than later. I just can't do radio now, between the adverts, inane banter and whining phoneins it's hideous.
If it must be on, suggest everyone gets a slot to connect to it.
You can then use yours to stream Alex Jones podcasts for the communal delight.
Back in the day (I was 19!) in my first job they used to have Radio 1 on all day. I never would've complained cos my colleagues were all scary women (doing microfilming, oh yes). I heard Gary Davies do a competition, must've been niche cos I thought I'll enter that and sent off my postcard (would've cost me a stamp too, but they were probably about 20p). I won a Radio 1 goody bag 🤣 Seriously, the only thing I remember being in that goody bag was a sponge with Radio 1 logo on it. One of those compressed sponges that expanded when you put it in water. Happy days!
I'm listening on headphones to a David Olusoga podcast about pirates now. It is distracting, but not as distracting as the radio and I'm less likely to go off on one.
Trial is only on for a week. Hopefully we'll be asked for our views on it when it is over.
What a bloody miserable lot you are. If having a bit of background radio on, even Radio 2, is that offensive to you, I feel sorry for your colleagues who have to put up with working with you!
It also depends on what you're doing doesn't it? I find typing "important" documents or emails almost impossible with music on. It's too distracting. If its routine type tasks then the radio would be OK as long as its not on loud.
I can imagine though that if you had any levels of autistic type tendencies it would be a bloody nightmare. Headphones were invented for exactly this scenario. If you want to listen to music you should be the one plugging in.
What a bloody miserable lot you are. If having a bit of background radio on, even Radio 2, is that offensive to you, I feel sorry for your colleagues who have to put up with working with you!
Well it's not offensive, just an unnecessary distraction for some people. Equally why do people need a radio in an office? Because it's about personality type and there isn't only one. Who gets to decide the radio station, can I have Kerrang FM?
Maybe I like music/radio but I don't want to listen to what others want to listen to, for quite a lot of people concentration is difficult with distracting noise which makes concentrating more tiring. Offices can be one of the least productive places to work w/o a radio on all day adding to the distractions.
Enforcing music or constant noise on people is a way of saying some people's preferences don't count or they aren't welcome.
If you want to listen to music you should be the one plugging in.
100% this.
6 Music for routine tasks. Spotify when there is a need to concentrate.
Way back when I was a youngster. I worked in QA for United Distillers in Elgin. One of the boys whistles "qué sera sera, whatever will be will be" only that bit and on a loop for 8 hours a day.
Thank god it was only a 6 month placement.
Had Radio 1 on since i started in the workplace 31 years ago at 17. I cannot abide commercial radio stations and adverts, And i swear capital do something with the audio and it sounds horrible...
I also believe it's important to listen to modern music or you lose touch, and therefore start disliking all modern music. So that's what's on in the office...
when i'm getting involved and put headphones on i usually switch over to my own personal music...
I couldn't stand listening to talking stuff or older or easy listening kind of stuff all day long
6 Music for routine tasks. Spotify when there is a need to concentrate.
Agreed - 6Music can see me through til about 1pm if Lauren Laverne doesn't start going hardcore electronica/ pigs x6 at midday. After that it's listen again from the Rock show, Funk n Soul Show, Rodigan, or library stuff
sounds like i should give some 6 music shows a listen.. mary ann hobbs, lauren laverne.. interesting sounding shows.. plus more out there stuff.. also didsnt know nick grimshaw was on there.. neither a plus or minus, but makes me laugh
Hahaha a tale as old as time
6Music would be my background radio station of choice, but I think they have a "at least one of the daytime DJs has to be a bit crap" rule, which is why they kept Mary Ann Hobbs when they ditched Sean Keaveney, and they now have Craig Charles now MAH has gone to Sunday evenings. And Chris Hawkins fills in when necessary.
If they have a radio blarting away all day they clearly don't want you to collaborate with your peers so you should work from home.
Obviously your company has a PRS and PPL licence. Big fine if you don't, best turn that shite off.
I’d object. Can’t abide R2. However I do work with the dulcet tones of Georgia Mann in the morning on R3. Longer pieces, less talk makes working much easier.
An excellent choice. Since I retired R3 has gone on first thing for the lovely Ms Mann and stays on until Choral Evensong starts.
Obviously your company has a PRS and PPL licence. Big fine if you don't, best turn that shite off
Yes an innocent question along those lines might end the trial quickly and appear like a caring employee vs a miserable bastard.
