Daily Discussion Thread: Mon 07 Aug 2023
Daily Discussion Thread: Mon 07 Aug 2023
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I want to preface by saying I understand, I'm annoyed but I understand.
One of the things I've enjoyed about my job is I can listen to my own stuff. I find total silence annoying so being able to do my own thing while doing my job is great. However, I just got off the phone with my job provider who said how my boss and her spoke and that I shouldn't be using my phone to listen to things because it's distracting. Which I'm annoyed about because it's accommodation for me.
So she suggested that she'd get a radio, and I replied saying that I find it distracting to listen to music with lyrics in them. And she said how "there's probably a classical music station" which fine, I don't mind classical music, I still hate it. I asked for a Bluetooth one and she said she'd look into it but yeah.
I'm just annoyed, like I enjoyed the fact that I could listen to my own stuff but having to listen to my boss chewing or snorting is going to be absolute hell on Earth. And it's not going to make my concentration better. I just, ugh.
Wait, so you're not allowed to listen to music through headphones but having a radio that everyone can hear is deemed okay?
Like at the moment it's just us two, but he talks on the phone to clients and freelancers. So it'd be annoying having to talk on the phone with music playing.
Did the last hour of work W/O listening to my own thing and he was talking to a freelancer and I was about to bash my head into the monitor.
That sucks, what an archaic way to look at things. I constantly have something playing on my phone (a podcast, a TV show I've seen 100 times, music) as background noise, it drowns everything else out and it's a lot easier to sink my teeth into my work. People function in different ways and they should at least try to understand that.
Like I appreciate the offer to get a radio, but what I listen to doesn't affect how I work. I'm just annoyed and frustrated. Might actually commit to that mental health day off sometime this week.
You should do it! I applied for next Monday off so I can have a long weekend, it's tough out there.
Yeah thinking about Friday. Though not too sure how I can ask for a sick day off into the future.