Posted on 07/25/2011 11:57:11 AM PDT by raccoonradio
(K.D. of Cambridge writes): "I work in a two-person office with my boss. He listens to Rush Limbaugh and other conservative talk shows while we are in the office and when we are driving in the car to a job site. I am finding it harder and harder to listen to those shows, which I find increasingly offensive. In the car, I generally can tune it out by bringing something to read. Would it be rude to bring a personal music player to the office and listen to it with headphones while I’m working, explaining that I find listening to talk radio while I work distracting?"
Robin responds: "Of course it wouldn’t be rude! Stop being a stereotypical guilty liberal. You’re not even asking your boss to turn the radio off, you are merely saying that you would prefer not to listen to it. And talk radio is distracting, whether you’re listening to Rush Limbaugh or Terry Gross. If you’re working in an office, I assume you’re working with information, and it’s hard to listen to one train of thought and read another (let alone talk to clients over the phone). Presumably your boss values a productive worker more than an ideological convert, so pop on those headphones."
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I work in an office where the break area and cafe TVs
are all set to MSNBC (by company policy).
I’m tempted to ‘Fox’ them except that I’d probably be
ejected from the premises (and my job).
And by the way, that person in my office, that “unofficial office custodian of the Official Obama Version of Reality” often has leftwing tripe blasting on the speakers of his computer in his 4-person office.
I think the other 3 people are basically agnostic sheep who know how to reflexively say “yes, master” to all things commie, muzzie and Obammie, but don’t really give a flat, flying sh*t about all the garbage that comes spewing out of those speakers, at a rather high and unpleasant volume.
But being sheep, they say nothing.
Without getting involved in the politics, I would definitely refuse to work in that office. I would definitely say, “either the noise goes or I go”. It would never come to that. We are in different departments and I get a lot of respect around here, but if I had to, I would fight for the right for a decent working environment.
Good one.
I don’t know how you can tolerate the stress of such a vile work atmosphere.
“How about waiting in an airport and being subjected to CNN?”
Exactly.
My Bose Quiet Comforts give me quiet from noise in the plane and quiet from idiots on CNN whilst in the airport.
But, given that the ONLY viewers that joke of a network has are in airports... guess the airports love the money that CNN must give them.
Most of the time we’re all very busy with the work done by our company and politics just doesn’t come up that often, except in that vile room, which I pretty much stay out of.
And then there are some closet conservatives. There are just a few of us, but we know who we are.
Someone in my office who deserves special mention — on the vile side — is a woman who goes to protest rallies in the defence of “Cuban Democracy” (meaning the dictatorship that has been crushing heads, murdering people and sucking the life out of the island’s economy for decades).
Rush Limbaugh - Is that blowhard still on the air¿
;)
No earplugs/ear protection? Don’t you worry about hearing loss?
Where I work, they at long last installed a tv but only in the break room. It was tuned to CNN and only CNN (they hid the remote and disabled the channel up and down arrows). I guess somebody created a complaint because now it is on Fox News and only Fox News, not that it is that much more tolerable. If I didn’t need it as part of my job, I wouldn’t have internet access either.
Yes, though hopefully it hasn’t been too bad. I wear earplugs sometimes or radio/mp3 player but not up extremely high. I used to get tinnitus years ago but not now. I take breaks and get off the workroom floor at times...
At the post office where I work (sorting ctr) there’s a TV and they tend to keep it on one channel only...it was on CNN Headline News for a long time, then it wound up on one of the Boston network affiliates (often if a sporting event of note was on the channel). So sometimes we get Ch 4 (CBS), 5 (ABC),
7 (NBC) and lately, Ch 25 (Fox). In break room.
Be careful, man!!!
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