Music at work

[8ob]

Another vote for the radio earmuffs when sharing the workshop, I can stay in Bobs world without feeling the need to adjust other radios with a sledgehammer

Bob

 

[Robert Weaver]

Open plan office for me. Music not allowed. Few years ago, we were switched from actual desk telephones to network VoIP via headsets (think call centre). Concentration is the biggest problem for me, which I've got round by endless loop of white noise played through headset to drown out the constant one-way conversations all around.

 

[roofman]

Hate radios when roof working as it effects my thought process...can just handle a bit of Classic FM on the roof and the lads hate me for it,they get there bit of pop muck in the commercials anyway...Leave them on there own and i always return to piff paff puff daddy blaring out so they get there revenge

 

[badabec]

When I worked in a pharmacy they played their own radio station (Bruno Brooks does them), it was hell. As manager I had control. The powers that be wanted a speaker in the dispensary, I vetoed that, I needed to concentrate. After a day off, the radio was set to 10. I soon put paid to that.
I embarrass my wife in shops by asking them to turn the music down. I'm just working out how many bags of dust I need then wham, Julio Iglesias at full pelt.
Being a misery guts, you are at work to work, it isn't a night club.
What also gets on my Bristols are workmen who have the radio on full blast, ever so slightly out of tune.

 

[Cobbler]

What also gets on my Bristols are workmen who have the radio on full blast, ever so slightly out of tune.

I always wondered where painters got those radios that appeared to be tuned to 2 stations at the same time, no wonder they always leave them at the other end of where they are painting

 

[bricol]

I don’t about this one but heard plenty of other stories. A team fitting interior carpets to the escort claimed it was making so much dust it was daring thier lungs. They showed me a sample of dust they had collected in a day, I did sampling with recognised science. They didn’t believe my results so I had to do it again with union observers. I found fibrous dust clumps in the sampling kit that couldn’t be sucked up with the most powerful vac in the world. I know they had interfered with my kit but I couldn’t point any fingers. The whole expertise was repeated a third and fourth time with 4 of us present. Surprise surprise dust levels were right were I expected them to be, I.e not an issue

Reason for this, that team wanted to work in a different area of the line so they could be closer to thier mates. It didn’t work

Halewood and Ellesmere Port were top of my list of places I just did not like working in due to the many of the clowns employed there.

Many tales of stuff done to stop machines for an easy life, or hassle because we weren't union when upgrading their gear to allow them to continue to build vehicles and therefore have a job!

 

[Parm]

Halewood and Ellesmere Port were top of my list of places I just did not like working in due to the many of the clowns employed there.

Many tales of stuff done to stop machines for an easy life, or hassle because we weren't union when upgrading their gear to allow them to continue to build vehicles and therefore have a job!

Oh yes. unions pushed for worker rights, protection wages resulting in much societal progress.

but they also cost many jobs and the demise of industry through thier bloody mindedness, holding back progress

a real oxymoron

 

[highseas]

I’ve worked on my own nearly all my life, never a radio or fancy phone in sight, thou I know a LOT of old trad songs and would sing them away to myself.
But this last year I was finding being in the workshop on my own in silence with just tools and steel making noise was honestly driving me nuts!! I was nipping to the garage for something every hour just to break the day up, now I have a £2 radio with a tig rod for a Ariel and it’s bliss! Just something to listen too

 

[Keith 66]

My first job was working at Thames marine, a boat factory, there was a huge old radiogram on a shelf in the middle of the factory with a large valve amplificator, it drove 4 very large speakers, It was tuned to Radio Caroline most of the time & occasionally Radio 1.
Everyone used to sing along & many pop hits had alternative lyrics. The Police's message in a bottle became "penis in a bottle".
Great fun.
Most of my life i have worked on my tod so Radio Caroline, Planet Rock are the stations of choice today, I did listen to the dutch station Arrow classic rock for a while which was good. Team rock was brilliant until they sold out & went streaming only.
I cannot understand how people listen to Garbage like Steve wright on radio 2, if i ever heard he had been outed as a paedo i would be overjoyed as it would meant the git would be taken of the air & i would never have to listen to him ever again!
Or Heart fm, a station for dullards & housewives with one braincell. Same ten songs on endless repeat. I would smash the radio & get sacked for sure.

 

[Parm]

I listen to LBC, although with the amount of time I’ve spent on calls and teams meetings in the last 18 months it’s hardly ever on these days.

Music, I listen to when chilling out, mostly when cooking or having a bit of a rumble

 

[cheb]

I like the radio stations beloved of taxi drivers on the continent, constant minor 1980s hits you can't quite remember.

 

[James1979]

One thing i miss when I’m in Orkney is Radio Caroline. If I’m ever south of teeside ish I put it on. They do transmit on Manx but only the west coast gets it.

Used to have classic gold till they went to DAB

I don’t ‘do’ music. Don’t own any. Apart from a load of Kevin Bloody Wilson CDs if that counts. Don’t mind music on but not that modern rubbish. Rather have radio 4 out of the choice I have here.

 

[bricol]

I cannot understand how people listen to Garbage like Steve wright on radio 2, if i ever heard he had been outed as a paedo i would be overjoyed as it would meant the git would be taken of the air & i would never have to listen to him ever again!
Or Heart fm, a station for dullards & housewives with one braincell. Same ten songs on endless repeat. I would smash the radio & get sacked for sure.

Which is precisely why the foreman right at the beginning doesn't want a radio on loud enough to annoy him/anyone/bosses/customers wandering through.

I notice the OP didn't say the foreman doesn't want a radio on at all, just not loud enough anyone who might just be trying to concentrate - or he's noticed in the past that when everyone is singing and dancing along, the work rate drops and the injury/tool damage rate increases? But he's the foreman - so what he says, goes. He might have been given the word from upstairs to keep it down anyway.

Me - can't do with Zoe Ball, so listen to Calgary 105 until Ken Bruce . .. back to Calgary at midday until Jeremy "I'm a cyclist" Vine is gone, then quite happy with R2 for rest of the day. Unless I'm on a call, trying to concentrate hard, or like today, on a remote training course that shoots down most of what I thought I knew about GD&T !

 

[stuvy]

I’d rather quit than listen to the now defunct radio 2

 

[brightspark]

site im on has 3 radios .its who can get theirs on 1st on each floor and the loudest i sneak in and turn theirs down a bit

 

[eLuSiVeMiTe]

*Spammer quote and link removed*
I'm covered thanks.
sneaky plug there.



Edit

Looks out of context now.

Spammer posted a link to site offering to make jingles/video music etc

 

[julianthegypsy]

I find that what I want to hear depends on what I'm doing. Since I'm in my own workshop I can do what I like, so the radio is normally on. Radio 2 for popmaster, then four extra at twelve then almost anything that isn't radio 2 until I knock off. The thing is though, it's background. Fine when I'm putting a stove together, keeps me rolling along, but if I need to concentrate, the volume goes right down or it's an annoying distraction. I've been like that since I started doing busy stuff when I was in my teens, a long time ago, so I quite understand why some places don't like music on.

 

[MattF]

but if I need to concentrate, the volume goes right down or it's an annoying distraction.

Same here. Background music is fine, but can distract when concentrating.

 

[Morrisman]

Some people love it, some people hate it, and that's just volume, not accounting for taste and genre.

Lady friend of mine used to have the music in her car so loud we had to shout to hear each other over it. And she‘d also called people at random, on her hands free phone, for inane pointless conversation, and had to shout over the music to them as well. I’m not sure if she was showing off how loud she likes her music, or what.

 

[eLuSiVeMiTe]

I find that what I want to hear depends on what I'm doing. Since I'm in my own workshop I can do what I like, so the radio is normally on. Radio 2 for popmaster, then four extra at twelve then almost anything that isn't radio 2 until I knock off. The thing is though, it's background. Fine when I'm putting a stove together, keeps me rolling along, but if I need to concentrate, the volume goes right down or it's an annoying distraction. I've been like that since I started doing busy stuff when I was in my teens, a long time ago, so I quite understand why some places don't like music on.

Same here mate. Started using my site radio again recently.
Soon as I need to concentrate off it goes.

Can't stand working in sites where the radios blasting out all day