I really do most things best without background noise. Also, I answer phones at a medical lab and I don’t think it sounds very professional for the clients to have to hear my tunes when they call.
The lady in the cube next to me used to play her radio fairly quietly, except for the several times a day when they’d play Black Water by the Doobie Brothers and she would sing along with the rockin’ goodness.
I also used to sit next to an elderly lady who would listen to music through earphones. At first, she would just hum waveringly along, but as time passed, it turned to full-fledged caterwauling and she seemed utterly unaware that anyone could hear her. I finally had to [del]ask her to quit scaring us[/del] say something (I was nice).
Anyway, most of us in this office full of women are just barely getting along with each other, we don’t need to add any more arenas!
I work in an office setting. I have my own office, but I always keep the door open. I occasionally put on some tanric/chakra/meditation-type music on, but I keep the volume low.
The woman across the hall has her radio on pretty often, and always set to a top-40 station. If I hear “And set the world on fi-ire” once more, puppies are going to die. It gets especially galling in December.
I’m in a cubicle and I put my headphones on and listen to whatever kind of music I feel like. It cuts the surrounding sounds (such as angry screaming neighbor and conference calls of lawyer without closed doors).
I do not sing though, I did that in the metro when the walkman first came out, I’ve learned!
I wish we could have banned music altogether at my office. It’s 8 hours solid of computer input, so we let people use headphones if they want, but the people who don’t groused about that - if they can hear even the slightest sound, it’s too loud, it’s disturbing them, make it stop. :rolleyes: Then we had one person who had a boom box on her desk and had to be told every. single. day. that she couldn’t do that, after which we’d get a lecture about how headphones are uncomfortable and it’s unfair others get music and she doesn’t. She’s one of those “I’m calling HR” people and I had her meet with my boss and HR, who both explained that her options were silence or find some headphones that worked for her - still groused about it all the time.
When I was a kid working fast food, you could listen to music while closing, and everyone hated my turn as I always listened to The Art of Noise’s “Who’s Afraid?”
I listen to music on my headphones at work all the time - if I could not I might have to throttle the person next to me who sniffles non stop. Every day, all the time… I feel badly if they have allergies but the noise is infuriating!
I have a number of different Pandora stations set up so I can listen to whatever I want - mainly I flip between rock, Blues/Jazz/Soul and metal.
I work in an office setting, and have my own office. I usually listen to rock music in my office, though the volume is low enough that it’s inaudible outside of my office. If I have to take a phone call, or have a meeting in my office, I’ll turn the volume down (or off entirely).
I’m sitting wihin earshot and Hate your music. Well, I could be or someone does is always my thoughts on hearing someone else’s music at work. My opinion is to always keep it within your area or use a headset. I personally use a single earbud so I can hear my phone or anyone that speaks to me during the day.
I have my own office, so I listen to my Ke$ha-heavy rotation on my computer speakers. I don’t play it loudly enough for anyone else to hear unless they come into my office.
I work in a university biological research lab. When in the outer labs, I sometimes use my iPod to listen to music with headphones. When sitting at my desk in my primary lab, I will have Pandora on in the background. It’s loud enough that I can hear it, but someone walking by will not know I have music on. The lab is L shaped and I am in the middle of the _ . I am the only one with a desk in here, so there is no one else to bother.
My lab mate does the same in his primary lab.
When we had 8 people in the lab, there were issues with what to play in the main outer lab. We finally settled on NPR.
An office with two or three other people. I agree with people who say headphones are uncomfortable; the head-squeezing gives me a headache. Thus, I wear earbuds. Those also don’t give off as much sound for others to hear.
Once in a great while I’m the only one in my room. Our room is down the hall from others, so I’ll shut the door and use speaker then.
There’s not much worse to me than having to listen to crappy music I don’t like, so don’t plan on using a boombox near me.
I work in a cube farm at an insurance company, about 100 of us in here. On the rare occasions I’m not taking phone calls, I listen to music with earbuds. Most of the time I don’t hear anybody else’s music. There are just too many people in here for that to be acceptable. It’s fucking loud enough already, you know?
The most notable exception is the one time I could hear some asshole’s music. From two rows away (~25 feet). Through his headphones. I can’t imagine how loud it was for him. Dude, nobody wants to hear your shitty Jon Bon Jovi beats while talking on the phone, mkay?
I’m a cook. I work better with music playing than without. At my job, we usually listen to rap, punk rock or heavy metal and that is ok with me. Either we hook someone’s phone up and listen to Pandora on the speakers, or we tune in to a radio station. We usually take turns picking the radio or Pandora station, and if someone really doesn’t like the music, it will eventually get changed.
I used to work at a restaurant where the kitchen staff except for me were all Mexican, and we just listened to the Spanish language music station all the time. It was a little annoying at first, but Banda and Ranchero music actually works pretty well for a kitchen environment. It’s fast and upbeat, and has a steady tempo. Slow songs are bad when you are trying to work as fast as possible.
