# Turn that shit DOWN!!!!!! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 14, 2003, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turn-that-shit-down/213228 "2003-11-14T13:00:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![workerbee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e0b2c6/32.png) [@workerbee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/workerbee)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2003, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turn-that-shit-down/213228/1 "2003-11-14T13:00:30Z")
I’ve asked you on MULTIPLE occasions to turn your music down. You do, but you always turn it back up within 2 or 3 weeks. What part of “this is an office and not a nightclub/bar/disco” don’t you understand? Did you forget that other people work here, too? Did you forget that I have NO OFFICE, JUST A DESK IN THE FUCKING HALLWAY not far from you??? :mad: Guess what that means? As you well know, I can hear your music - you can get earphones, or turn it THE FUCK OFF! Next time (if I decide I can wait), I’ll be going to HR, and we’ll pull them into it, so they can tell me what an unreasonable asshole I’m being - would you like that? I can see it now: “Stop being such an old fart. Can’t you see she wants to play her music - what the fuck is wrong with that? Get a life, and shut the fuck up!” I have never asked HR for anything, but my patience is gone. This slow torture must end now. I gave you several chances to turn it down, and the last time, you just whined, “yeah, yeah, yeah, whatever.” It’s called Karma. You started it with your instrusive music, and I, in turn, have to get HR involved, since you do not respect me. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2003, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turn-that-shit-down/213228/2 "2003-11-14T13:14:54Z")
Welcome, **workerbee**! This is one of my pet peeves too…fortunately at work I’m far from the group that plays radios. If not I think I’d have to quit. In fact, any situation in which I have to listen to someone else’s music quickly becomes unbearable. I totally understood how the old cartoon Grinch felt about those damn Whos and all their "noise, Noise, NOISE, _NOISE!_ ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2003, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turn-that-shit-down/213228/3 "2003-11-14T13:22:06Z")
Oh how I can sympathize! I share a cubicle with a moron who listens to a local “Morning Zoo” show. The Zoo denizens are particularly fond of a couple of looped burp and fart recordings. Normally, the show is just another bit of background din, and my quiet _Morning Edition_ can usually drown it out. But those accursed burps and farts cut across the cubicle and drive audio daggers into my brain. Every time he leaves the cube, I turn his radio off. So sue me. ---
**Author:** ![Kaitlin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/59ef9b/32.png) [@Kaitlin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kaitlin)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2003, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turn-that-shit-down/213228/4 "2003-11-14T13:33:18Z")
One of my coworkers used to wear headphones, but she would play the music so loud that I could hear the melody quite loudly. Emphasis on the singular–she only played one song, over and over and over again. She was pretty agreeable about turning it down when I asked, but wow, I don’t know how she has any hearing left. ---
**Author:** ![Homebrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Homebrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homebrew)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2003, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turn-that-shit-down/213228/5 "2003-11-14T13:37:54Z")
But the music helps my creativity. I can’t design these catalogs in silence. I need the music and the headphones are in my way. ---
**Author:** ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2003, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turn-that-shit-down/213228/6 "2003-11-14T13:43:13Z")
I guess I’m easily amused, because I find **Dung Beetle** and **WorkerBee** funny. Hmmmm, I guess “it’s” beginning. ---
**Author:** ![DogMom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9c0ed/32.png) [@DogMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DogMom)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2003, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turn-that-shit-down/213228/7 "2003-11-14T13:49:35Z")
Oooo, I hear ya. This happened to me once - only I was between TWO “dueling musics”: I had punk & heavy metal on one side and country / western on the other. After informing my boss of the migraines I was getting, and requesting they either turn their music down or (preferably) get HEADPHONES, to no avail, I decided to fight back. After only half an hour of John Phillip Sousa, they decided headphones was probably a _very_ good idea. Can you do something along the same lines? Especially if HR says “she can listen to her music” - that way they really can’t say anything when you turn on YOUR music. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2003, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turn-that-shit-down/213228/8 "2003-11-14T14:07:41Z")
😕 But I _am_ funny. What is “it”? ---
**Author:** ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2003, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turn-that-shit-down/213228/9 "2003-11-14T14:29:57Z")
Sorry that didn’t come out right. I found the two usernames in the same thread funny. Don’t worry, it’s just me after a week of no sleep. ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Ashtar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ea924/32.png) [@Lord\_Ashtar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Ashtar)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2003, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turn-that-shit-down/213228/10 "2003-11-14T14:33:43Z")
I have to have music at work also. Since most people can’t handle my music, I use headphones. I fail to see why anyone else can’t. If I only had _wireless_ headphones… ---
**Author:** ![The\_Wrong\_Girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b782af/32.png) [@The\_Wrong\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Wrong_Girl)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2003, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turn-that-shit-down/213228/11 "2003-11-14T14:38:44Z")
But…but…I was told that I could listen to the radio at a reasonable volume from nine to eleven. 😃 Seriously, my sympathies. Definitely get HR involved. ---
**Author:** ![Cerri](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3bc359/32.png) [@Cerri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cerri)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2003, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turn-that-shit-down/213228/12 "2003-11-14T14:38:47Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Homebrew \* > \*\*But the music helps my creativity. I can’t design these catalogs in silence. I need the music and the headphones are in my way. \*\* 😕 How do headphones get in the way? ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2003, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turn-that-shit-down/213228/13 "2003-11-14T14:50:41Z")
I’m surprised by this. Just about every company I’ve worked for had a ‘no music’ policy. Now, some managers would allow some music in some offices, if it was extremely discreet. The minute it crossed the line or the minute one complaint was recieved, however, the manager would come down on the group like a ton of bricks and nobody could play Any radio under any circumstances. When asked, invariably someone would say “there’s always one problem person who has to spoil a good thing for everybody.” ---
**Author:** ![angelicate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@angelicate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/angelicate)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2003, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turn-that-shit-down/213228/14 "2003-11-14T14:53:56Z")
I was stuck working at a place where, for the first 4 days of the week, then the head supervisor was there, we either listened to a country station, or an adult contemporary/pop type station. On Fridays, when she wasn’t there, the other lady that I worked with got there early and turned the radio to christian programming. Ack. I’ve got no problem with her being a christian, but the music was really, really bad. On the rare occasion that I’d get there early and turn the radio on, I’d find it changed after I’d left the room. ---
**Author:** ![Genghis\_Bob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/45deac/32.png) [@Genghis\_Bob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Genghis_Bob)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2003, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turn-that-shit-down/213228/15 "2003-11-14T14:57:43Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Cerri \* > \*\*How do headphones get in the way? \*\* I’m not sure how the headphones [U[themselves get in the way. I used to have a staff member who did her programming with headphones on - so far, no problem. After a while, though, she would forget herself and start **singing** along with whatever song was playing. And she could not sing . . . ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Homebrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Homebrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homebrew)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2003, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turn-that-shit-down/213228/16 "2003-11-14T15:02:14Z")
Headphones get in the way because I have to move around. I take pictures of products, I print proofs, I move hither and yon, I retrieve photo CDs from the bottom drawer … ---
**Author:** ![Cerri](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3bc359/32.png) [@Cerri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cerri)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2003, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turn-that-shit-down/213228/17 "2003-11-14T15:09:33Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Homebrew \* > \*\*Headphones get in the way because I have to move around. I take pictures of products, I print proofs, I move hither and yon, I retrieve photo CDs from the bottom drawer … \*\* [Wireless headphones?](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/browse/-/509316/103-2350286-2883023) ---
**Author:** ![Homebrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Homebrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homebrew)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2003, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turn-that-shit-down/213228/18 "2003-11-14T15:26:20Z")
but … but … but … Those would muss my hair! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Frumpy\_Jones](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/da6949/32.png) [@Frumpy\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frumpy_Jones)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2003, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turn-that-shit-down/213228/19 "2003-11-14T15:51:50Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Cerri \* > \*\*[Wireless headphones?](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/browse/-/509316/103-2350286-2883023) \*\* WHOOMP! Two Points to Cerri! -30 to Homebrew +1 to WorkerBee +1 to Dung Beetle +5 to me for dishing out scores. Now for my .02… The best thing to happen to me was becoming a “Remote employee”. i work out of my home and blast the music all day long and get NO COMPLAINTS (I would listen on headphones when I worked ‘In the office’). ---
**Author:** ![Genghis\_Bob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/45deac/32.png) [@Genghis\_Bob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Genghis_Bob)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2003, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turn-that-shit-down/213228/20 "2003-11-14T15:55:01Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Homebrew \* > \*\*but … but … but … Those would muss my hair! 😉 \*\* Ah- **hah!** So it’s **hair** that gets in the way! [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turn-that-shit-down/213228.md?page=2)