Workmates "Music" doing my head in

tk123

ok heres the deal we have recently reorganised our office in work and now i'm sitting beside this 40 year old guy who thinks he's a musician...He records his own stuff and it's all junk that you could throw together with frooty loops. He mails us his "new tunes" all the time which is fine cos you can delete the mails but he also blasts them all over the office. So to get to the point - how can I chill out and listen to David Kitt on my headphones when he's drowning it out with his junk. Even when he has headphones in himself he's banging the desk and stamping his feet etc. I don't want to hurt the mans feelings but my job is stressfull enough without having to listen to him listening to himself singingn like a strangled cat!! :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

Jim

Just ask him nicely.

Say "I can't dig that daddy!" or something similar.
Just say the music isn't your bag and would he mind turning it down as it is distracting.

Beruthiel

ask him politely if he could possibly turn it down a notch as you find it hard to concentrate

Asok

Just scream the following at him

Headphones tbh
followed by a firm and forcefull.
STFU

davej

Perhaps you could write your own rival ****ty music and let him know what it feels like.

Other than that you could just ask him to lower it down a little. This is a perfectly reasonable request...

davej

Jim

davej wrote:

Perhaps you could write your own rival ****ty music and let him know what it feels like.

A selection of the internet's finest might sufice. "All Your Base", "Trogdor", followed by some funky keygen sounds.

lisa.c

tell him you're going to report him to the environmental health(for noise pollution) if he dont turn the crap off.

Beruthiel

you could also point out that
'he's not famous for a reason'

John

Bring in a little battery powered amp and microphone and make it feedback next to his ear

RossFixxxed

Or you could play the Cosmic sounds of Omnisience [link]http://www.soundclick.com/bands/0/omnisciencemusic.htm[/link]

*Shameless plug for my "band"* Note: If a song took more than 5 minutes it was cut, and it only took that long cos we were laughing so much! Also "Souls of our Enemies" is us quoting the one line from a Stephen Segal movie: "The souls of our enemies will be dust and ash on the wind before the funeral of our loved ones." Come onnnn, how great is that? Play this music, all the time, it wrecks everyone's head that hears it. It's annoying me right now and I'm not even listening to it!

D'oh EVEN BETTER: BANANA PHONE! Get banana phone on mp3 or go google it and play the banana phone flash! It's the most annoying song EVER!

tk123

John2 wrote:

Bring in a little battery powered amp and microphone and make it feedback next to his ear

He's start singing if he had a microphone!!! He sang at a work party one time..he even wore a white suit and sunglasses in the club!!! :eek: Everybody still slags him abt it!!

RossFixxxed

A white suit and sunglasses into a club??? Either he's a genius or I'm actually going to have to kill him!

da_deadman

He makes music that is not appreciated by his contemporaries and wears white suite and sunglasses into clubs...the man is obviously a genius. You should ask him for his autograph, and go make him a cup of tea right now maybe get him a nice digestive biscuit to go with the tea.

Sleepy

Just ask him to turn it down.

koneko

Just ask him nicely to turn it down a bit. If he gets snotty just say you don't mean any offence, but you find it hard to concentrate when music is playing or something like that.

Sometimes people play **** music over and over again and they just need to be told to bloody turn it off. Been there, done that. As long as you ask someone nicely, they're usually happy to oblige. They often don't realise they're causing a nuisance to everyone else.

Sleepy

If he gets snotty just tell him that his music is "too Stock/Aitken & Waterman" for your tastes.

koneko

Hehe, oooh buuuurn!

"Nah it's just that I generally only listen to half-way decent music"

Draupnir

tk, I hope youre not gonna leave us all hanging, make one of his songs available to the public. maybe he can become a cult hero. or we can all mail him for ya and protest that he quit in the name of all that is music

VenusDiablo

You could try this method to shut them up:

http://www.ebaumsworld.com/girlsinging.html

StupidLikeAFox

Haha - QUALITY!

Sleepy

ROFL, emminently smackable alright!

DerekD Goldfish

Kill him and sell the demos off as a visonary geniues who died beofre his true tallent was realised by the world.

tk123

Draupnir wrote:

tk, I hope youre not gonna leave us all hanging, make one of his songs available to the public. maybe he can become a cult hero. or we can all mail him for ya and protest that he quit in the name of all that is music

Trust me your better off without it!!! Next time it happens i'll ask him to turn it down. Why oh WHY did I fix his soundcard for him?!?! :mad:

Sleepy

Surely you can "unfix" it?

Zulu

I'd go with the -
walking in in the morning tired and hungover. If he's playing his music, say "ahhh not this sh1t again, man I can't handle being polite today, give us a rest, will-ya?"

If he dosen't get the hint, remove his sound card after work.

Zulu

...and NO - me and Sleepy aren't the same person.

Karl Hungus

Christ... I dunno how ****s like this can get away with it! I once endured a train journey with two complete drug addict skangers who had a tape deck with them and ****ing blared out various skang-hop and dance ****e. Irritating as **** when you can hear it drowning out your own fecking HEADPHONES!

Frankly, you should really let the guy have it, seeing as he doesn't sound the fellow to stick you with a needle for looking crooked at him. A method I would choose is to put on a wager with co-workers to see who could annoy him the most, or interfere with his music in annoying ways. It's make the day fly by, I'd say, and at the same time you'd get a wealth of different ideas from all your coworkers into the mix to annoy him. Why don't you try get everyone to sing "Spam" at irritatingly loud volume when he plays his music?

Ideas of the facefull of feedback is gold, as is the Banana Phone/Trogdor/Badgers or what have you... But make sure you let your coworkers in on it, otherwise they might be miffed at you adding to the noise pollution instead of trying to annoy him.

MistressPandora

Oh no, wait, this has happened to me before...or something similiar.
I used to work in Kaffe Moka in Dun Laoghaire, and every single 10-hour-shift-full-time-with-a-half-hour-lunch-break day of my life for about 3 weeks, I had to endure the feckin' Mini-disc that the manager loved so much. **EVERY** day. So, during my last few days there, I came into work one morning and lo and behold, I saw the MD. I dropped it to the ground, smashed it and then claimed it fell under my Doc Martens. this story has no real relevence, but hey, it's fun to share stories.
I have a fcuked up sound card that doesn't work if you want to swap sound cards with the singing old timer.

tman

RossFixxxed wrote:

"Souls of our Enemies" is us quoting the one line from a Stephen Segal movie: "The souls of our enemies will be dust and ash on the wind before the funeral of our loved ones." Come onnnn, how great is that? Play this music, all the time, it wrecks everyone's head that hears it. It's annoying me right now and I'm not even listening to it!

****ing brilliant

the_syco

Jimeatsmenu wrote:

A selection of the internet's finest might sufice. "All Your Base", "Trogdor", followed by some funky keygen sounds.

Yeah. Get a keygen by Class or Paradox. Cool tunes from both.

Beruthiel

syco
what are ya doin' draggin' up old threads!?