Radio in an open plan office - does the Music get you down?

plys · 15-05-2012 12:32PM #1

I work in an open plan office, where there is a general consensus that we should listen to one particular radio station. To be honest, the choice of station isn't all that bad (the best of a bad lot, I'd say..), however I am SICK to the teeth of the same four or five songs being repeated over and over and over and over again, all day long.

Occasionally, the consensus changes and we get a new station. For a while. And really, it's not different. The same songs are played ALL DAY LONG.

Some people find it mildly amusing, to the extent that they will have little games with each other, taking mini bets in the morning as to which will be the most-played song that day etc.

How sad.

The problem is, in an open plan office, it is even more grating if you try drowning out the music of others by listening to something else - going against the consensus, as it were.

So basically, I am resigned to listening to s**te irritating overplayed songs. For the rest of my working life.

Is it just me, or does this get anyone else down?

I'd be really interested to hear novel ways of breaking up the monotony of it all......

Where To · 15-05-2012 12:34PM

You have no idea of the enormity of the apathy I have for your plight.

kfallon · 15-05-2012 12:35PM

Lucky you having the radio to listen to in work! We have nothing only the sound of printers, sniffling, coughing and the odd sneaky fart left off by someone

chin_grin · 15-05-2012 12:35PM

My idea of hell to be honest.

Who ever allows this sh!t should be hung, drawn and quartered.

Nothing like a schnaky earphone up the sleeve. :pac:

davet82 · 15-05-2012 12:36PM

plys wrote: »

I'd be really interested to hear novel ways of breaking up the monotony of it all......

take a baseball bat to the radio, its your only option

tigger123 · 15-05-2012 12:39PM

In before "you're lucky to have a job" :pac:

Nibblesworth · 15-05-2012 12:40PM

Get a cd with porn sounds and play it

SouthTippBass · 15-05-2012 12:41PM

plys wrote: »

I work in an open plan office, where there is a general consensus that we should listen to one particular radio station. To be honest, the choice of station isn't all that bad (the best of a bad lot, I'd say..), however I am SICK to the teeth of the same four or five songs being repeated over and over and over and over again, all day long.

Occasionally, the consensus changes and we get a new station. For a while. And really, it's not different. The same songs are played ALL DAY LONG.

Some people find it mildly amusing, to the extent that they will have little games with each other, taking mini bets in the morning as to which will be the most-played song that day etc.

How sad.

The problem is, in an open plan office, it is even more grating if you try drowning out the music of others by listening to something else - going against the consensus, as it were.

So basically, I am resigned to listening to s**te irritating overplayed songs. For the rest of my working life.

Is it just me, or does this get anyone else down?

I'd be really interested to hear novel ways of breaking up the monotony of it all......

Whats sad about that exactly? Woking in an office is rarely a lot of fun, sounds to me like they are just trying pass the time.

Also, a bit dramatic? You dont sound like a barrell of laughs yourself to be honest.

sea_monkey · 15-05-2012 12:42PM

i worked in a place where the customers were all really old.

10 hours of country western songs on repeat.

now thats depressing

PseudoFamous · 15-05-2012 12:43PM

chin_grin wrote: »

Nothing like a schnaky earphone up the sleeve. :pac:

If they're allowed to have a radio on, the boss shouldn't have an issue with the OP isolating themselves with some massive on ear headphones. Hey, it might even make him more productive.

Lando Griffin · 15-05-2012 12:43PM

Its a Radio today, next week a telly.

Radios in offices should not be allowled as they are a distraction.

Usually people in the private sector dont have radios, I suppose you do as you like when in the Public sector.:mad::mad::mad:

Nothingbetter2d · 15-05-2012 12:45PM

plys wrote: »

I work in an open plan office, where there is a general consensus that we should listen to one particular radio station. To be honest, the choice of station isn't all that bad (the best of a bad lot, I'd say..), however I am SICK to the teeth of the same four or five songs being repeated over and over and over and over again, all day long.

Occasionally, the consensus changes and we get a new station. For a while. And really, it's not different. The same songs are played ALL DAY LONG.

Some people find it mildly amusing, to the extent that they will have little games with each other, taking mini bets in the morning as to which will be the most-played song that day etc.

How sad.

The problem is, in an open plan office, it is even more grating if you try drowning out the music of others by listening to something else - going against the consensus, as it were.

So basically, I am resigned to listening to s**te irritating overplayed songs. For the rest of my working life.

Is it just me, or does this get anyone else down?

I'd be really interested to hear novel ways of breaking up the monotony of it all......

all irish radio stations do that.... weekly top 10 songs on a cd which they must all get a copy of and play constantly.

it's why i dont listen to irish radio anymore.

best invest in an i-pod and enjoy your own music

Chuck Stone · 15-05-2012 12:46PM

Where To wrote: »

You have no idea of the enormity of the apathy I have for your plight.

Passionately apathetic.

chin_grin · 15-05-2012 12:46PM

PseudoFamous wrote: »

If they're allowed to have a radio on, the boss shouldn't have an issue with the OP isolating themselves with some massive on ear headphones. Hey, it might even make him more productive.

If a little unsociable. I agree though. Used to work in a call centre and because I had the headphone I could just hide my earphones under them.

"Hmmm? Yeah I totally heard what you just said there about that error message you're getting.....pffffffffffffft".

Hande hoche! · 15-05-2012 12:47PM

Burn spin south west to the ground.

Teyla Emmagan · 15-05-2012 12:48PM

You have a radio IN WORK?

This can't be a proper office.

Nothingbetter2d · 15-05-2012 12:52PM

Teyla Emmagan wrote: »

You have a radio IN WORK?

This can't be a proper office.

lots of offices have radios on... i can hear one in my boss's office. its playing that same cd all the other radio stations have

plys · 15-05-2012 12:58PM

Where To wrote: »

You have no idea of the enormity of the apathy I have for your plight.

Chuck Stone wrote: »

Passionately apathetic.

Wow, all of a sudden I got this warm fuzzy feeling, and the tunes now seem AMAZING.

You guys rock
:pac:

No seriously, I know there are people with *genuine* issues, but how can these so-called DJ's look at themselves in the mirror - they're killing music..

I think we should mount a protest... now if only I could figure out how to change the general consensus...

hooradiation · 15-05-2012 12:59PM

Where To wrote: »

You have no idea of the enormity of the apathy I have for your plight.

They have no idea of the wickedness of the apathy you have?

what an odd thing to say......

doolox · 15-05-2012 01:02PM

.....they used to play "suddenly i see" at least 5 times a day in a 12 hour shift on the only radio station allowed in my place of work. Such repetition drove me mad. But I couldn't get enough of the Kaiser chiefs...."I predict a riot" and "Every day I love you less and less"...both songs which reflected my mood of working in the second last place I worked in. I am now self -employed in the entertainments sector and enjoy the freedom that doing a few hours in each of 6 or 7 venues gives me.

I wouldn't go back to working 40 hrs a week in some office or shop floor for anything.

chin_grin · 15-05-2012 01:03PM

plys wrote: »

No seriously, I know there are people with *genuine* issues, but how can these so-called DJ's look at themselves in the mirror - they're killing music..

Uh, that'd be the artists/labels fault. Or just all pop music in general.

So the label/artist is the toilet, the dj is the plumbing and we're the garbage that its being pumped to.

General Relativity · 15-05-2012 01:06PM

If you're in Dublin; Radio Nova or GTFO.

plys · 15-05-2012 01:06PM

Teyla Emmagan wrote: »

You have a radio IN WORK?

This can't be a proper office.

Nothingbetter2d wrote: »

lots of offices have radios on... i can hear one in my boss's office. its playing that same cd all the other radio stations have

Honestly, I would much prefer no radio at all. Printers 'n' sh*t would sound WAY cooler than Carly Rae Jipson.

Also, it wouldn't be so bad if every song wasn't so bloody repetitive in itself.. They all seem to have at least 5 choruses....

chin_grin · 15-05-2012 01:09PM

General Relativity wrote: »

If you're in Dublin; Radio Nova or GTFO.

Yeah there's nothing like integrity as selling yourself like a rock station and then down the line playing middle of the road indie and pop. :rolleyes:

I disliked nova ages ago for this fact alone.

FoxT · 15-05-2012 01:15PM

OP, I hope your employer is paying the IMRO sub, about eu100 per 25 employees. Otherwise, they are breaking the law, and killing the music industry, so they are

wilson10 · 15-05-2012 01:19PM

Wouldn't allow a radio in my office.

It's a workplace, how could you concentrate on your work.

How could you have a conversation on the phone.

chin_grin · 15-05-2012 01:21PM

wilson10 wrote: »

Wouldn't allow a radio in my office.

It's a workplace, how could you concentrate on your work.

How could you have a conversation on the phone.

How loud do you think the radio is? It's not a feckin' concert.

paddyandy · 15-05-2012 01:22PM

Our disregard for the common good is our downfall .

chin_grin · 15-05-2012 01:23PM

paddyandy wrote: »

Our disregard for the common good is our downfall .

<John Wayne impression> You wander in to the wrong thread son?

wilson10 · 15-05-2012 01:26PM

chin_grin wrote: »

How loud do you think the radio is? It's not a feckin' concert.

You've been to visit Plys office then

Duggy747 · 15-05-2012 01:29PM

When I was tiling with another guy he used to have his radio on all the time.

It went in this order:

Gobshìte DJ
Coldplay
Katy Perry
Awful adverts
News
Another Gobshìte DJ
Popular-at-the-moment dance song
Katy Perry
Advert
Coldplay
Gobshìte talks again
News

.....and repeated this formula constantly.

*shudders*

Radio in an open plan office - does the Music get you down?

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