Radio in an open plan office - does the Music get you down?

plys

I work in an open plan office, where there is a general consensus that we should listen to one particular radio station. To be honest, the choice of station isn't all that bad (the best of a bad lot, I'd say..), however I am SICK to the teeth of the same four or five songs being repeated over and over and over and over again, all day long.

Occasionally, the consensus changes and we get a new station. For a while. And really, it's not different. The same songs are played ALL DAY LONG.

Some people find it mildly amusing, to the extent that they will have little games with each other, taking mini bets in the morning as to which will be the most-played song that day etc.

How sad.

The problem is, in an open plan office, it is even more grating if you try drowning out the music of others by listening to something else - going against the consensus, as it were.

So basically, I am resigned to listening to s**te irritating overplayed songs. For the rest of my working life.

Is it just me, or does this get anyone else down?

I'd be really interested to hear novel ways of breaking up the monotony of it all......

Where To

You have no idea of the enormity of the apathy I have for your plight.

kfallon

Lucky you having the radio to listen to in work! We have nothing only the sound of printers, sniffling, coughing and the odd sneaky fart left off by someone

chin_grin

My idea of hell to be honest.

Who ever allows this sh!t should be hung, drawn and quartered.

Nothing like a schnaky earphone up the sleeve. :pac:

davet82

plys wrote: »

I'd be really interested to hear novel ways of breaking up the monotony of it all......

take a baseball bat to the radio, its your only option

tigger123

In before "you're lucky to have a job" :pac:

Nibblesworth

Get a cd with porn sounds and play it

SouthTippBass

plys wrote: »

I work in an open plan office, where there is a general consensus that we should listen to one particular radio station. To be honest, the choice of station isn't all that bad (the best of a bad lot, I'd say..), however I am SICK to the teeth of the same four or five songs being repeated over and over and over and over again, all day long.

Occasionally, the consensus changes and we get a new station. For a while. And really, it's not different. The same songs are played ALL DAY LONG.

Some people find it mildly amusing, to the extent that they will have little games with each other, taking mini bets in the morning as to which will be the most-played song that day etc.

How sad.

The problem is, in an open plan office, it is even more grating if you try drowning out the music of others by listening to something else - going against the consensus, as it were.

So basically, I am resigned to listening to s**te irritating overplayed songs. For the rest of my working life.

Is it just me, or does this get anyone else down?

I'd be really interested to hear novel ways of breaking up the monotony of it all......

Whats sad about that exactly? Woking in an office is rarely a lot of fun, sounds to me like they are just trying pass the time.

Also, a bit dramatic? You dont sound like a barrell of laughs yourself to be honest.

sea_monkey

i worked in a place where the customers were all really old.

10 hours of country western songs on repeat.

now thats depressing

PseudoFamous

chin_grin wrote: »

Nothing like a schnaky earphone up the sleeve. :pac:

If they're allowed to have a radio on, the boss shouldn't have an issue with the OP isolating themselves with some massive on ear headphones. Hey, it might even make him more productive.

Lando Griffin

Its a Radio today, next week a telly.

Radios in offices should not be allowled as they are a distraction.

Usually people in the private sector dont have radios, I suppose you do as you like when in the Public sector.:mad::mad::mad:

Nothingbetter2d

plys wrote: »

I work in an open plan office, where there is a general consensus that we should listen to one particular radio station. To be honest, the choice of station isn't all that bad (the best of a bad lot, I'd say..), however I am SICK to the teeth of the same four or five songs being repeated over and over and over and over again, all day long.

Occasionally, the consensus changes and we get a new station. For a while. And really, it's not different. The same songs are played ALL DAY LONG.

Some people find it mildly amusing, to the extent that they will have little games with each other, taking mini bets in the morning as to which will be the most-played song that day etc.

How sad.

The problem is, in an open plan office, it is even more grating if you try drowning out the music of others by listening to something else - going against the consensus, as it were.

So basically, I am resigned to listening to s**te irritating overplayed songs. For the rest of my working life.

Is it just me, or does this get anyone else down?

I'd be really interested to hear novel ways of breaking up the monotony of it all......

all irish radio stations do that.... weekly top 10 songs on a cd which they must all get a copy of and play constantly.

it's why i dont listen to irish radio anymore.

best invest in an i-pod and enjoy your own music

Chuck Stone

Where To wrote: »

You have no idea of the enormity of the apathy I have for your plight.

Passionately apathetic.

chin_grin

PseudoFamous wrote: »

If they're allowed to have a radio on, the boss shouldn't have an issue with the OP isolating themselves with some massive on ear headphones. Hey, it might even make him more productive.

If a little unsociable. I agree though. Used to work in a call centre and because I had the headphone I could just hide my earphones under them.

"Hmmm? Yeah I totally heard what you just said there about that error message you're getting.....pffffffffffffft".

Hande hoche!

Burn spin south west to the ground.

Teyla Emmagan

You have a radio IN WORK?

This can't be a proper office.

Nothingbetter2d

Teyla Emmagan wrote: »

You have a radio IN WORK?

This can't be a proper office.

lots of offices have radios on... i can hear one in my boss's office. its playing that same cd all the other radio stations have

plys

Where To wrote: »

You have no idea of the enormity of the apathy I have for your plight.

Chuck Stone wrote: »

Passionately apathetic.

Wow, all of a sudden I got this warm fuzzy feeling, and the tunes now seem AMAZING.

You guys rock
:pac:


No seriously, I know there are people with *genuine* issues, but how can these so-called DJ's look at themselves in the mirror - they're killing music..

I think we should mount a protest... now if only I could figure out how to change the general consensus...

hooradiation

Where To wrote: »

You have no idea of the enormity of the apathy I have for your plight.

They have no idea of the wickedness of the apathy you have?

what an odd thing to say......

doolox

.....they used to play "suddenly i see" at least 5 times a day in a 12 hour shift on the only radio station allowed in my place of work. Such repetition drove me mad. But I couldn't get enough of the Kaiser chiefs...."I predict a riot" and "Every day I love you less and less"...both songs which reflected my mood of working in the second last place I worked in. I am now self -employed in the entertainments sector and enjoy the freedom that doing a few hours in each of 6 or 7 venues gives me.

I wouldn't go back to working 40 hrs a week in some office or shop floor for anything.

chin_grin

plys wrote: »

No seriously, I know there are people with *genuine* issues, but how can these so-called DJ's look at themselves in the mirror - they're killing music..

Uh, that'd be the artists/labels fault. Or just all pop music in general.

So the label/artist is the toilet, the dj is the plumbing and we're the garbage that its being pumped to.

General Relativity

If you're in Dublin; Radio Nova or GTFO.

plys

Teyla Emmagan wrote: »

You have a radio IN WORK?

This can't be a proper office.

Nothingbetter2d wrote: »

lots of offices have radios on... i can hear one in my boss's office. its playing that same cd all the other radio stations have

Honestly, I would much prefer no radio at all. Printers 'n' sh*t would sound WAY cooler than Carly Rae Jipson.

Also, it wouldn't be so bad if every song wasn't so bloody repetitive in itself.. They all seem to have at least 5 choruses....

chin_grin

General Relativity wrote: »

If you're in Dublin; Radio Nova or GTFO.

Yeah there's nothing like integrity as selling yourself like a rock station and then down the line playing middle of the road indie and pop. :rolleyes:

I disliked nova ages ago for this fact alone.

FoxT

OP, I hope your employer is paying the IMRO sub, about eu100 per 25 employees. Otherwise, they are breaking the law, and killing the music industry, so they are

wilson10

Wouldn't allow a radio in my office.

It's a workplace, how could you concentrate on your work.

How could you have a conversation on the phone.

chin_grin

wilson10 wrote: »

Wouldn't allow a radio in my office.

It's a workplace, how could you concentrate on your work.

How could you have a conversation on the phone.

How loud do you think the radio is? It's not a feckin' concert.

paddyandy

Our disregard for the common good is our downfall .

chin_grin

paddyandy wrote: »

Our disregard for the common good is our downfall .

<John Wayne impression> You wander in to the wrong thread son?

wilson10

chin_grin wrote: »

How loud do you think the radio is? It's not a feckin' concert.

You've been to visit Plys office then

Duggy747

When I was tiling with another guy he used to have his radio on all the time.

It went in this order:

Gobshìte DJ
Coldplay
Katy Perry
Awful adverts
News
Another Gobshìte DJ
Popular-at-the-moment dance song
Katy Perry
Advert
Coldplay
Gobshìte talks again
News

.....and repeated this formula constantly.

*shudders*

chin_grin

Duggy747 wrote: »

.....and repeated this formula constantly.

It's nice to know some things never change, it's still like this! :pac:

Wattle

That 'ah sure everybody loves it' attitude gets on my tits. No we don't all love it.

Duggy747

chin_grin wrote: »

It's nice to know some things never change, it's still like this! :pac:

8 months I had to put up with that. It broke once and I revelled in the silence.

Until the other guys working on the same house as us turned on their giant boombox

ronjo

We have a TV on our floor too.

It was really handy during the footy world cup.

The Ice Hockey world championships are providing the entertainment now

grindle

In before jaded cynics who say things like "Whats sad about that exactly?" invade the thread, not realising that their shiitty attitudes are what make office jobs suck shiitpipe.

Edit: Fuuck, ye all got here already.

OP, we had the same problem, so we joined forces, bought an mp3 cd player, and take turns listening to albums.
The only person unhappy with this is also the only person who doesn't actually like music at all (same as most people, so). Fuuck her.
One day a week we have to listen to top 40 CDs/Matchbox 20/Paolo Nutini, 80% of the time we get educated.
May not work in a shiitty office atmosphere though.

ScumLord

I can't listen to music radio, either music these days is terrible or I'm just getting old but I just can't sit through even one song on the radio any more.

It's newstalk pretty much all the time during the day now.

Pace2008

"Still alive but I'm barely breathin'. Just prayin' to a God that I don't believe in." Kill me, now.

I know that feel bro. I worked in an office for 5 years and Spin103's endless cycle of 10 bad, bad songs was by far the worst part of the daily grind. One or two of the other workers and I tried changing it over to Phantom, Nova, or something more tolerable the odd evening when we were working late, hoping that no one noticed, or that perhaps the radio was only stuck on FM104 or Spin because no one was arsed changing it, but sure enough we'd come in the next morning and the Script/David Guetta/Katy Perry cycle had begun anew.

It's funny how adults seem to find the endless repetition of their kid's TV programmes of choice to be endearingly amusing. I honestly see no difference between the format of Teletubbies and mainstream radio stations' playlists. Again, again!

Cian92

Oh we have a radio where I work too. Why in gods name do we have to listen to some ****e local radio, I'll never know.

Try and get them to change to 4fm (the only station with a no repeats work day).

The worst part of it is the Neil "Wanker" Prendeville show :mad:

The late night love zone, was another stupid depressing show. "Mary and John married 20 years have just broken up, Mary asks are all men the same? This one is for you Mary, Lady Antebellum and Need you now."

The amount of times I have thought about "breaking" that radio.

And another thing, those listener ship figures.... There are only 2 local Cork radio stations. So when one says it is the most listened to in Cork, you would think the other wouldn't advertise it's listener ship figures at all. But no some idiot in a cheesy voice announces that it is the most listened to radio station by under 35s.

I''m sorry you are the least listened to Cork radio station - that is all.

bbam

Lando Griffin wrote: »

Its a Radio today, next week a telly.

Radios in offices should not be allowled as they are a distraction.

Usually people in the private sector dont have radios, I suppose you do as you like when in the Public sector.:mad::mad::mad:

I worked in a large MN and productivity increased then radio was piped throughout the factory floor. Workers had representatives from each area decide what stations were on.

plys

grindle wrote: »

OP, we had the same problem, so we joined forces, bought an mp3 cd player, and take turns listening to albums.
The only person unhappy with this is also the only person who doesn't actually like music at all (same as most people, so). Fuuck her.
One day a week we have to listen to top 40 CDs/Matchbox 20/Paolo Nutini, 80% of the time we get educated.
May not work in a shiitty office atmosphere though.

Sounds class... a couple of us had discussed doing something similar a while back - think it's time to bring the subject up again..! :cool:

grindle

plys wrote: »

Sounds class...

It really is. Just finished listening to Miles Davis and we're all bumping along to Move D at the moment.
Where's the jazz-hands smiley?
REMEMBER TO LABEL YOUR CDs CORRECTLY!
IN ORDER!
Or get an iPod dock-thingy that accepts mini-phono jacks!

stimpson

1. Get an iPod and FM Transmitter
2. Tune it to frequency of station
3. Blast them with AC/DC

Do I have to do everything around here?

IM0

listen to phantom

davet82

you need a licence to play a radio in the work place as far as i know, report your office or you could just sing along really badly to every song and it might just get switched off for you

DonnaHay

Where we're from, the birds sing a pretty song, and there's always music in the air

Lando Griffin

bbam wrote: »

I worked in a large MN and productivity increased then radio was piped throughout the factory floor. Workers had representatives from each area decide what stations were on.

Thats ok for a factory floor, but when it pencil pushers in the public sector making decisions is another thing.
Senario: Joe Duffy - agonising subject.
Whole Office - listening and conversation about subject.
Result more talking less ticking.:mad::mad::mad::mad:

Pace2008

Lando Griffin wrote: »

Thats ok for a factory floor, but when it pencil pushers in the public sector making decisions is another thing.
Senario: Joe Duffy - agonising subject.
Whole Office - listening and conversation about subject.
Result more talking less ticking.:mad::mad::mad::mad:

I worked in the private sector and they had a radio on. It's not uncommon, and aside from the quality of the music, or lack thereof, it wasn't a distraction. We're not talking about 140bpm hard techno blaring out of a Funktion-one soundsystem, like.

chin_grin

DonnaHay wrote: »

Where we're from, the birds sing a pretty song, and there's always music in the air

Where, Disneyland?

Crooked Jack

I totally get what the OP is talking about, last month in particular was a fckin nightmare with that "Now youre just somebody I used to know" shyte bein played anywhere between 6 and 10 times a day.
It's ten times worse when you're in an office where women are in the majority (or even worse, in a physical minority but a vocal majority, as is the case in my office.)
Feck all you can do really, I broke the last radio we had but then one of the girls came in with her own bigger, louder one

Adyx

Try working in a pub or nightclub! Even when bands play I know what's coming next. :mad: