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so, i've been playing some really inappropriate stuff in earshot of the "customer base" recently...keep in mind its not anything you or i or satan or even yer mom would find offensive...just "not condusive to the retail environment"...the other day it was "yerself is steam", then magazine (hearing "i will drug you and fuck you on the permafrost" was one of the better working experiences of my life), and today its ardkore rude bwoy junglizm, replete with woody woodpecker snares and sub-bass turned really REALLY loud...am i courting trouble?

― jess, Tuesday, 9 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

come my selector, and i'll show you where the file folders are grape juice are.

― jess, Tuesday, 9 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Depends. Where do you work?

The best example of this is NoiseNoiseNoise records in Costa Mesa, CA. One out of three times, you'll walk in to either hear The Frogs or El Duce.

― Brian MacDonald, Tuesday, 9 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I've gotta be honest; music is my life's passion, but I don't want to hear it in the office. I'd probably be more annoyed by loud and fast than something more soothing, but I need silence to concentrate.

― Sean, Tuesday, 9 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i am the supplies buyer (for the store not the office) at a (state) university bookstore. just as glamorous as it sounds.

― jess, Tuesday, 9 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Sadly even Nick Drake is considered NOISE at work.

― Helen Fordsdale (nathalie), Tuesday, 9 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

right now its kraftverk. motorik mind-numb for piles of paperwork.

― jess, Tuesday, 9 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I take what I think to be quiet or mellow CDs with me to work. I don't play anything very loudly. In the morning I usually listen to Starr + Buc Wild on Hot 97, that's the rowdiest thing I play, not only because of the music but the commentary. This morning they went off about the NY Daily News banning the comic strip The Boondocks beacuse one of the characters answers "Reagan" when asked who trained bin Laden. The show was suspended a few days after they made fun of Aaliyah's death. I'm sure people around me hear most of it but no one has asked me to shut it off.

― Lesley Higgins, Tuesday, 9 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I used to work in a little Mexican restaurant where we'd spend every Sunday lunch shift listening to the college station's "unclassical" show. Stockhausen, Xenakis, Ferrari, that kind of stuff. It was a real pleasure to roll burritos and watch people in their church clothes eating silently to such a soundtrack. I heard Steve Reich's "Come Out" for the first time that way. Once we had to change the station because a young sweet mother said her little daughter was feeling "like there are bees all over her."

― Andy, Tuesday, 9 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Yeah, "unclassical" is surely the best possible way to annoy and frighten 99.9% of the public. Case in point: even back when I worked at one of Chicago's more hipsterish record stores, I still had to interrupt someone's playing of Reich's "It's Gonna Rain" because the customers were bugging out.

I'm a headphone worker now, but I still feel sort of inappropriate on the rare occasions that I listen to hip-hop during the day. Proofreading copy for Jacques Barzun book / listening to hip-hop = mentally incongruous, unfortunately, mainly when I have to take off the headphones and respond to some very professional query.

― Nitsuh, Tuesday, 9 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I got told off for playing Listening Chamber 4. I was like "go suck eggs d00000d"

― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 9 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

It's two months ago. I'm in my office for my summer job. Door's closed, I'm leaning back in my chair, cranking up the volume on my daily collection of CDs.

I hear a pounding at my door, and I let in the company secretary, who looks really worried.

She: "Are you OK?"

Me: "Uh... yeah."

She: "I heard screams coming from your office."

It turned out I had been playing Missy Elliott's "Scream" just a little too loud.

― Ian, Tuesday, 9 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Said it before, said it again -- a big open area with only you in it in the corner with windows all around and a nice set of computer speakers = heaven.

Proofreading copy for Jacques Barzun book / listening to hip-hop = mentally incongruous

I'm still bemused he mentioned Garbage at the end of From Dawn to Decadence.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 9 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Nick Drake considered NOISE? What else but Zamfir do those cretins tolerate?

― Simon, Tuesday, 9 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Hanle y's "Pocari Sweet" is totally inappropriate for working environments.

― Tadeusz Suchodolski, Tuesday, 9 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Oh god... Joy Division, Bauhaus... That which is so depressing is not conducive to werk...

― JM, Tuesday, 9 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

tis my goal to one day play favoritest album of all time #1 at work...totally NOT condusive...le sigh...

― jess, Tuesday, 9 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Worked until recently in psycho-geriatric unit of a hospital as a nursing assistant. A nurse, immature/inconsiderate type, insisted on having MTV-type station on v.v.loud in sitting room early morning (before boss arrived) whilst residents were washed/dressed/breakfasted etc, pulling rank on anyone questioning this. Thus I'd have to feed fragile and seriously disturbed 80+ year olds their breakfast with the likes of Limp Bizkit providing the soundtrack. Grim. They loved Tele-tubbies though.

― stevo, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

'Nick Drake considered noise at work'? Great, I've always thought his stuff shouldn't be played anywhere, except maybe on Death Row so convicts don't struggle on their way to the chair.

― dave q, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Virgintravelstores have Curiosity Killed The Cat on their 'on hold'

― gareth, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Sometimes when I listen to Jay-Z at work I turn it down a little. We were singing along with Area Codes on Radio Sonicnet the other day and one of the bossmen looked a little worried. "Whore-durves? I swear to god I never have any idea what you two are saying to each other."

― Ally, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Listening to Einstürzende Neubauten right now at work, but really, anything goes here within my own tolerance. Ahhhh, it's wonderful having a private office with a big door to seal us apart from the rest of the office.

― Sean Carruthers, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

My more recent songs are even more inaapropriate for teh workplace.

― Mike Hanle y, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I can play pretty much whatever I want, but I usually just listen to some oldies/rock station, and the occasional France Gall or Sonic Rendevous Band CD. However, the station does play the occasional Incubus/Staind/ColdPlay/Train song, and I get jeered by the black- garbed punks here... I guess I deserve it.

― Andy, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Oh dude, the album that brought the most comments weren't rap at all, now that I think about it. It was the Manics. The receptionist asked me why I was listening to that "shouty shouty kill ya mutha kill ya father music". The guy in the office next to me was down with it, but he likes Bruce Springsteen.

― Ally, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I like to blast the Misfits' "Attitude" every time my co-worker Thaddeus walks through the door, as he is the most attitude-free person I know. We think it's amusing, everyone else hates it.

― Arthur, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

seven years pass...

maybe it's not the best idea to play britney at 9am... but i don't care

― surm, Thursday, 2 July 2009 13:24 (sixteen years ago)

ha, where do u work

― mark cl, Thursday, 2 July 2009 13:25 (sixteen years ago)

a center for the performing arts in brooklyn... it could def be more inappropriate, i feel

― surm, Thursday, 2 July 2009 13:29 (sixteen years ago)

i would be really upset if i couldn't listen to this crap at work. like, really.

― surm, Thursday, 2 July 2009 13:31 (sixteen years ago)

I had to stop sharing my iTunes library at work because I realized I had "Ass N Titties" and "Fuck All Night" in it.

― he is substituite by Crime Club (HI DERE), Thursday, 2 July 2009 13:34 (sixteen years ago)

Yeah, I had to take my Electrik Red MP3s off the server for the same reason. Whoops!

― Violent In Design (Masonic Boom), Thursday, 2 July 2009 13:38 (sixteen years ago)

i know, "We Fuck You" came on a couple of weeks ago and i was like ok i guess there have to be boundaries

― surm, Thursday, 2 July 2009 13:43 (sixteen years ago)

lol @ Ass N Titties

― surm, Thursday, 2 July 2009 13:49 (sixteen years ago)

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