Your working environment.

[JobDDT]

What is your working environment like? Are you forced to listen to soft rock and unoffensive boy band-ary? Do you even get the chance to listen to music while you're working? And how are your co-workers?

I only bring this up because I like my co-workers, but when I went into work today, one of them had some song by Toby Keith blaring at full blast (so loud I couldn't hear what kind of chew people wanted!). Then she put in Bon Jovi and it skipped so it kept playing "Have a Nice Day" for like 30 minutes until she left.

Then I listened to my favorite radio station for the rest of the day (96.5 The Buzz for my fellow K.C.ites).

Pretty good working environment.

What about you?

[zorra_chiflada]

shitty local commercial radio playing. but you can't really hear it over the dogs barking or the birds. in the grooming room (where i spend a lot of my day) it's much like a veterinary office. stinks of wet dog but is bleached down every day. people always come in with their hand over their face. my co-workers are all female except one. i get along with everyone fine.

[Gareth]

photocopiers, keyboards, people talking...no music

[Yorkshire~Rose]

My office is on the site of a psychiatric hospital. I share an office with my fellow system support type person and he's an absolute star. We do have a radio on but the only reception we can get is a local commercial station which seems to have a 3 track playlist.

It's a nice office though - recently decorated, 2 large windows (although these have bars on them just in case we feel like hurling ourselves out of them on a bad day)

All in all, it's a nice working environment.

[DandyFop]

I really like my current job even though the pay is crap. I work in the ticket office for the city's symphony and opera. One of my friends is my boss, and the other managers are all way laid back and very cool people. Dealing with the patrons isn't bad, in general they're very nice and I like being in the arts community. It's awesome to see people of all different ages, races (well as much as they can be in Utah), etc. come to enjoy a performance together.

[Helvete]

I normally have to listen to 1200 horsepower engines, 120mm tank cannons firing or 7.62mm automatic GPMG fire. No music.

[g-mile7]

I normally have to listen to 1200 horsepower engines, 120mm tank cannons firing or 7.62mm automatic GPMG fire. No music.
Except the rhytmn of the "BAP BAP BAP" of them shells flying. All that warin' and you still have time to post...your a true national hero

[Helvete]

I'm sure if you recorded all the various noises in the Army, you could make some made techno hardcore track or something. And I am not literally warring right now, so I get weekends off. Why do I detect a sarcastic tone?

[mikizee]

All I hear all day is the shitty music coming from slot machines and patrons whingeing to me that their machine is broken because it isnt paying out. my usual response is 'well its working perfectly then. fuck off.'

[TAL]

Back when I used to have a job I listened to the radio.

[befsquire]

i listen to my ipod when i'm in my office and there's no clients around.

[BangkokB]

I yell at coworkers
Hey!!!!!
and they say Ho!!
Me Go ; Heyyyyyyyy
Them: Hoo!!

We do good because we sell wratchets

[BangkokB]

Here's Our Mantra

here it comes the sound of terror from above
he flex his Texas twisted tongue
the poor lined up to kill in desert slums
for oil that boil beneath the desert sun
now we spit flame to flip this game
all the targets are taking aim
all targets are taking aim
we're the targets are taking aim

[faz]

Dance/chart music. But I do work in a night club.

[hardnox71]

I get to listen to the melodious sounds of spoiled rotten traders whining and complaining and asking me why they are down 18 ticks in a fast market. (Hey, I don't fucking tell you what to buy and sell! Your position is your fucking fault!) Asking me what the hell happened to the 10 lot of July Wheat they did with BBA/135. (Fucking trade is still in their fucking pocket. They never gave it to me!!) Asking me to decipher their fucking writing because they were so busy when they wrote it down they can't remember what the hell they were trading. (How the fuck am I supposed to know what the fuck you were trading and with whom?) Fucking millionaire morons.

Music to my ears.:mad:

[DipDipDive]

I work at the front desk at my job. Everyone else (with the exception of the accountant and the president who both have their own offices) is together in cubicles in one big room, but I'm in the front by myself most of the day. The only radio in the office is right behind my desk, and I listen to the classical station. I like it.

[BangkokB]

I get to listen to the melodious sounds of spoiled rotten traders whining and complaining and asking me why they are down 18 ticks in a fast market. (Hey, I don't fucking tell you what to buy and sell! Your position is your fucking fault!) Asking me what the hell happened to the 10 lot of July Wheat they did with BBA/135. (Fucking trade is still in their fucking pocket. They never gave it to me!!) Asking me to decipher their fucking writing because they were so busy when they wrote it down they can't remember what the hell they were trading. (How the fuck am I supposed to know what the fuck you were trading and with whom?) Fucking millionaire morons.

Music to my ears.:mad:

hardnox hit me on a Pm
Let's compare and contrast~ where your at now and now I can guarantee god damn tee you you'll have more $ in 6 months than you have today as long as you can keep your mouth shut


Let's Talk PM

BB

[alruggs]

I am watching Science of Sleep on my laptop while I work. We have 5 large windows and it's usually sunny. We've acquired a small refrigerator, a microwave and a toaster oven. Sometimes we bake cookies. The only down side is the obnoxious new manager that has decided it would be a good idea if he sat next to me.

[R. Kelly]

bitches in da studio..makin hot trax....good environment son

i sip criss

the bitches sip piss

[hardnox71]

The only down side is the obnoxious new manager that has decided it would be a good idea if he sat next to me.
He's probably diggin' your new doo.

[Loppfessor]

Non stop debauchery is a good way to describe my work center. I’m assuming that most of the shit we pull wouldn’t really fly in the corporate or civilian world at all but that’s one reason I do really enjoy being in the military. We get the job done but spend a lot of the day making fun of each other’s friends, family, religion, sexuality, and any other thing that we think might be funny. Even though there’s two females in our area it’s pretty much a boy’s club and that’s a lot of fun. Grown ups acting like high school kids makes the day go by faster

[hardnox71]

but spend a lot of the day making fun of each other’s friends, family, religion, sexuality, and any other thing that we think might be funny. Grown ups acting like high school kids makes the day go by faster
Sounds just like jail. I mean exactly like jail.

edit-except in jail, there's usually a fight after too much of the wrong thing gets said. But it does pass the time, though.

[Gareth]

i think my productivity would drop by at least 40% if i could listen to music at work.

[hardnox71]

BangkokB

You're in box is full. I'm just gonna post this here because I gotta go and I don't have time to wait for you to empty.


I can't buy or sell. If I were trading for myself then I would have to have what's called a 'seat on the floor' which is nothing more than the right to walk on the trading floor and start trading. 'Seats' are expensive as hell. $500k - 1 million depending on the kind of seat you have (Mid-Am, Associates, Full Membership, etc.) I have no desire to gamble my own money.

If I were trading other people's money I would be called a broker, which is what I was studying to become a couple of years ago until I got sidetracked with some other shit. To become a broker you have to be licensed by the CFTC (Commodities and Futures Trading Commission) and the NASD (National Association of Securities Dealers). Because of some shit in my background I will never be licensed by the government to handle other peoples money.

Without being in either one of these situations, there is no way to either buy or sell commodities.

[Johnny Railroad]

when I ride with the car from customer to customer , I have a little Tape collection in my car - and the trainee`s are sometimes surprised about my music taste ...

on the constraction site there is a special rule that 1 radio is playing and thats all .... but we have local Radiostation who plays good music

sometimes when I`m alone on a consturction site i use my mp3 , but then I have a little paranoia that anyone is tsanding behind me and ask me something and I couldn`t hear him ....

[AdNama]

You guys had to listen to crappy commercial radio...I had to work there! Torture...complete torture. And the owner of our radio network is infamous in Australia for just being an absolute joke. He's put all these plans in to build a new building (which no one ever thought would happen anyway) then the other day he called the station and the receptionist took more than 2 rings to answer so he's cancelled building the new studios!!! It could only happen in the SuperRadioNetwork.

Check out everyone crapping on him on "his" myspace page...still trying to figure out who set this up. PS, so is the owner - he'll try and sue...he always does (and always loses)

www.myspace.com/fatbillcaralis

Some of the comments are SO true...and his profile is spot on!

[Junker]

My office is one of the smallest in the whole company. It only has 8 people so it's quite calm here. But I can listen to music at anytime. Right now for example. I found my Oasis 'Be Here Now' cd on my drawer and put it on.

*all my people right here right now....blah blah blah blah...yeah yeah*

[camo]

My Ipod, my speakers, my choice of music :rolleyes:

[Junker]

My Ipod, my speakers, my choice of music :rolleyes:

*SPAM*

[camo]

*SPAM*


?:confused: ?

[Junker]

Your post sounded like those advertisements. Not a spam. My mistake.

[icy manipulator]

a toyota yaris

[mikizee]

yeah for 10 hours out of 12 a day my environment is a mitsibishi triton.

[camo]

Your post sounded like those advertisements. Not a spam. My mistake.


My post, my mistake, your bad (y)

[QueenAdrock]

I love my working environment. There's 4 other girls who run the library with me. So 5 of us altogether, we're all pretty close. We're all early 20's, except for one woman who is 50, which does make it a little awkward because she's usually not included in our stuff. Like when I sent to the other 3 girls the Black Sheep trailer (thank you Cosmo) they all laughed their asses off, and so she wanted to see it, but I don't think she really got it. It's not like we purposefully want to exclude her, but she is of a different generation. Also, if we all do something like go out to happy hour together or have a drunken party, well...that's not her thing, so she's excluded. And I feel awkward making plans with the other girls if the other isn't invited, but um, she's our parents age and stuff, you know?

Anyways, my task manager is awesome, but she sees us all with halos. So does my program manager. He thinks the library girls can do no wrong and loves us to death and thinks we walk on water. Which is nice, but he's sorely mistaken. We're still human. :p

I love it here. Minus the constant flow of fatty snacky food, because I'm trying to eat healthier and it's hard when you've got a table full of baked goods right in front of you. But other than that, it's sweet.

[abcdefz]

In the mornings, before others get here, I can pretty much listen to what I like. I share an office, though, so once my co-worker gets here, I try to keep his tastes in mind to some extent. But he likes rock, jazz, classical, soul, etc., so basically I just don't play rap or house and he's fine. Now and then he surprises me when he recognizes an artist or some particular piece of music. And he's only complained once -- Ricardo Villalobos kind of drove him batty, but, to be fair, it was a 37 minute slice of microhouse, and he made it more than halfway through.

[mikizee]

what the hell is microhouse?

[abcdefz]

Short version: it's usually spare, minimalist house.

Long version:

From AMG:

Coined in a 2001 article in The Wire by writer and DJ Philip Sherburne, microhouse was a term used to categorize dozens of largely German producers whose approach to house music emphasized subtleties and space as much as deep house producers relied on anthemic hooks and emphatic vocals. Even so, microhouse productions found a meeting point between deep house and minimal techno. The stern rigidities of the latter were forsaken while the sensual and boisterous capabilities of the former were embraced; to flip the scenario, microhouse took a cue from minimal techno’s “less is more” doctrine, regularly abandoning deep house’s excessive ornamentation. Emphasis tended to fall on cushiony kick-drum thumps and the accompanying hi-hats, with faint textures provided by synthetic strings and dreamy keyboard tones. Throughout the late ‘90s and early 2000s, several small labels thriving on this approach cropped up. A fair percentage of the output from already-established labels like Playhouse (Isolée, Losoul), Kompakt (Sascha Funke, M. Mayer) and Klang Elektronik (Farben) made for some of microhouse’s most thrilling moments. Other labels -- such as Force Tracks (Luomo, MRI), Perlon (Ricardo Villalobos, Pantytec) and Trapez (Akufen, M.I.A.) –- were virtually all-microhouse in scope.

[mikizee]

I see!

[Junker]

My post, my mistake, your bad (y)

hehehe......right. My bad! (again)

[Dorothy Wood]

I'm listening to NPR. I'm alone. I'll probably switch it to a modern rock or oldies station after 5.

when my boss is here, he either likes top 40, his mix CDs of techno dance stuff, and B-52's. sometimes oldies.

my manager likes Love FM. all love songs all the time. I can only handle so much of it though.

my other coworker likes NPR or the modern rock station. I don't listen to CDs because the CD player is in the closet and it holds like hundreds of CDs and it's awkward to get to. you have to shimmy yourself in there and it's really dark so you can barely see anything.


I'd rather listen to the hard rock station sometimes, but it can get offensive and customers can hear the radio, so I wouldn't want to offend anyone. also, sometimes they play awful music.