That’s becoming what people do, and it’s causing serious problems.
This is not a good thing in a restaurant back of house:
“Yo, coworker, how much longer on that double pepperoni?”
" … "
“YO HOW MUCH LONGER ON THAT FUCKING DOUBLE PEPP?!?”
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Then the manager has to get involved, people get cranky, etc.
Get back to me once the onslaught of Christmas music has begun.
I’m a fogey, but what about zero music? No earbuds, period; that’s a firing offense. No radios, period. No nothing but the sounds of exertion and the dulcet tones of folks cursing their fellow workers when they foul up?
That’s sure to promote fewer distractions and total worker harmony and good morale? Right? 
I used to play Pete Townshend’s “Empty Glass” album at work before opening time and it got a lot of compliments. Also Don Henley’s “Building the Perfect Beast”. Plus it’s the right season for “Boys of Summer”.
Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs. Everybody likes Sam the Sham.
is he family to Don the Con?
Do your streaming apps curate their own playlists, like Rock Yacht as was mentioned? I listen to Freegal a music app available through my public library and when I’m done with my own playlist I’ll venture into their playlists I find titles like Grill and Chill, soul Classics, 2020 Grammy Nominees, Stomp and Holler, Soul Psychedelic or Top guitar solos
I always say don’t like this song wait two minutes it’s over.
Oh and I’ve been having fun finding artists covering the same tune. I have a dozen versions of I like it like that because I like it like that.
Years ago I stopped in at work when we were closed so I could do some paperwork. I forgot to lock the door after entering.
Someone saw my car and stopped. I did not hear the door chime because I was blasting a CD. When I just happened to walk out front, I see a woman standing there looking confused while the speakers blasted out, Why Don’t We Get Drunk And Screw. It was embarrassing.
Sounds like the intro scene to a porno. Did you offer her a drink? Did she accept?
Heh, no, but that song was the absolute cleanest on the CD.
I gather, you work at a hardware store
luckily your feet didn’t stink, your head did not hurt and you actually did love jesus
/s
Just because you were never allowed to listen to your music at work, you want to deny it to everybody?
Sheesh. Some people.
Earth, Wind & Fire are happy, upbeat, and inoffensive.
I had an office area that asked about playing music using the existing PA speakers back in the 90s. As the supervisor, director, or whatever, i decided it was OK and let them figure out what music they wanted to hear. I just said that it couldn’t be commercial radio. They went through every permutation possible, including assigning certain hours of the day to be programmed by each employee.
It was a disaster. I won’t even try to list the ways in which this failed.
Finally, I dragged in my old 5-CD changer and set it on random shuffle. I loaded it with two Cars albums, two Go-Gos albums, and the first Boston album. No complaints. Every so often, I’d swap out another Cars album, or replace Boston with something else for a month, but it basically stayed that way for about a year. We were in and out of the office frequently, so nobody just sat there listening to the music full-time. Later, I had a 5-CD changer tthat could play MP3 files, so I was able to significantly increase the play-list, but the albums remained pretty similar. Some Fridays I’d load it with 60s music.
Madonna’s Like a Prayer and Nsync’s Bye Bye Bye. They’re all I fixate on after watching the Deadpool and Wolverine movie.