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- dbloc0
every time he comes over turn it up one notch...If you run out of notches, buy an amp.
- voiceof0
Record the office noise and play it loud the when he asks you to turn it down, do so - just slightly. Repeat 6 times or so.
You will have then conditioned him to be annoyed by the sounds of the office and can watch him slowly go insane every time the phone rings or a hole is punched. Repeat every week or so to keep it fresh.It's like audio office version of "The Yellow Wallpaper"
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- ********0
see utopian, you can kill that hooker after all, spend 30 years inside and QBN could survive with just a dozen text strings and a random function.
- heavyt0
man, this reminds me of my old job. 1 guy thought it was his duty to share his musical taste with all of us. everyone else wore headphones, and anytime he walked away from his desk, we'd turn his speakers down or off. still, he didnt get it.
i think it is a little egotistical to think that everyone should want to hear what you think is good music. just get a set of headphones and feel free to listen to anything you want. I wouldnt expect 2, 3, 4 other people to have the same taste.
and - it isnt their problem. it isnt that they have bad taste in music. we all just have a different taste.
- detritus0
Take a handmade, roughly hewn, stone axe in to work tomorrow. Go over to your opponents' desks and bludgeon their skulls in, ensuring a clean cleave. Gouge out still warm brain remnants, jump up on to a desk and start eating up, taking care to eye out the remaining coworkers. After you've downed a few mouthfuls, heartily beat your chest, then run around slapping the other males, shouting "OOOHIEEEE OOH OOH OHH OHHIIIIEEE OOOH OOHOOOH", thereby asserting your dominance over your new pack.
After, pick a prize female and beat her 'til she succumbs to your heft and, with her underlings, grooms you into a happy state of bliss.
Demand raisins.
- utopian0
skt > how are your crop circle designs coming along?
- mom jokes. how very droll.********
- there you go by the way:
http://en.wikipedia.…******** - speaking of t-shirts, how is your helvetica one coming along?********
- mom jokes. how very droll.
- utopian0
skt seems truly bemused that people beyond his circle would be interested in his ruminations.
- Stugoo0
used to be split up into 3 diff rooms each room would play music and if you didnt like it you siad so, no harm no foul.
then moved to couple of companies where there was no music and everyone wore headphones... that was dull. except when one guy kept having 'cord fails' and his phones would unplug and we would all hear his country n western or bonkers trance.Now we have a cumulative studio server where everyone collaborates and can pick n choose. rules are you dont skip and you dont jump the que. everyone is happy.
- that sounds amazing!!!!joseprieto
- have a link to such a system we can set up here?scarabin
- vaxorcist0
all this make me soooooo glad I'm a freelancer
- PonyBoy0
i'm w/vaxorcist... I don't think I could work in an office environment anymore after 6+ years of freelance...
... I tried a 3-month stint about 2 years ago and nearly died... fuck having a job... and fuck 'workmates'...
- dan53820
GFY
- version30
don't shit where you earn your cheese
- ukit0
Imagine it was not you but someone else...playing music you hate. Are you still ok with it?
- luckyorphan0
I had the same experience, J. I showed up one morning with a big tray of fresh omelettes that I made that morning. They were onion and cheese and mushroom and tomato – yer basic spanish omelette, only with a lil' flare.
Anyhow, I went over to my new cube buds as a kind of gesture and put a plate of this in front of each of them, and handed them a fork. At first, they didn't know what to do, so I took a moment to walk up to each of them and force-feed them the omelettes. The first guy took it well – I got in a few spoonfuls. But then one other dickwad came over and said "WTF?! Stop force-feeding us this shit!!" A third retard whined "I'm allergic to cheese!!" Pssh...what a pussy.
I will never understand what the fuck was wrong with them. After all, I used aged gouda, shitake mushrooms and heirloom tomatoes in free range eggs...cuz I'm creative and creatives should really eat creative food.
They still bitch about the smell that was left behind for a week. Can't believe I have to work around such cretins.
- what a bunch of twats. you should be pissedspendogg
- ...and to think I was planning on bringing in my cologne sampler for them to experience. Pssh.luckyorphan
- luckyorphan0
^ Okay. To be fair (Mr. Hyde is gone...Dr. Jekyll here), I admire your attempt to make the workplace a better environment. But in the future, it's best to just ask first, and not assume. I can't tell you how many office wars have started over music assumptions being made. It's just better to ask, or wait for appropriate times for this to happen. No one wants to be there on a Monday. So you can imagine that hearing music you don't enjoy, or worse, is distracting you from doing your job, it's just not appreciated.
All in all, tho, I applaud your effort. Just try to find a better way of going about it. Start by just asking if it's okay to share yer music. Allow them to say 'no thanks' instead of 'STFU.'
P.s. Explosions in the Sky – you are right to think that they rule, and should be shared.
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- I'll edit next time. Forgive my writing longer than 140 characters.luckyorphan