Music in the office

[barrydidit]

last place I worked at had a resident DJ

[psychocandy]

I'm usually too busy posting bollox on here to notice

FTFY

[GJABS]

An update today,

This morning I spoke directly to the head of the team who are most keen on having music, presenting them with some quotes from web pages output by a Google on the subject. Some positive, some negative.
In summary some people react well to working around music, others poorly. I am definitely in the latter category.

Anyway I must have had an impact, because the music stopped, and call me paranoid I got the impression people were talking about me behind my back. I definitely heard someone say "who's GJABS?"

Later in the afternoon the boss called me into a private meeting, where he gave me a right telling off for discussing the issue with other people without going through him first. As he had requested yesterday.
He said "You're just a contractor - you don't have the right to interfere in company procedures".
But all I did was discuss the issue - I didn't tell them what to do, only what effect it would have on my productivity, and that probably of several others.
The truth of the matter is that I didn't think he would present the case assertively enough if just left to him - his "solution" being to have me work from home a lot, which is not ideal.

Anyway the boss said that they were going to carry on playing the music.

This might well result in a shorter contract than it would otherwise be, but at least I tried to persuade them.

[northernladuk]

Erm.. Well done? :

[clearedforlanding]

An update today,

This morning I spoke directly to the head of the team who are most keen on having music, presenting them with some quotes from web pages output by a Google on the subject. Some positive, some negative.
In summary some people react well to working around music, others poorly. I am definitely in the latter category.

Anyway I must have had an impact, because the music stopped, and call me paranoid I got the impression people were talking about me behind my back. I definitely heard someone say "who's GJABS?"

Later in the afternoon the boss called me into a private meeting, where he gave me a right telling off for discussing the issue with other people without going through him first. As he had requested yesterday.
He said "You're just a contractor - you don't have the right to interfere in company procedures".
But all I did was discuss the issue - I didn't tell them what to do, only what effect it would have on my productivity, and that probably of several others.
The truth of the matter is that I didn't think he would present the case assertively enough if just left to him - his "solution" being to have me work from home a lot, which is not ideal.

Anyway the boss said that they were going to carry on playing the music.

This might well result in a shorter contract than it would otherwise be, but at least I tried to persuade them.

You must be popular.

[GJABS]

You must be popular.

But at least I'm no longer a nobody

Who knows what will happen. It will be discussed in a management meeting next week.

The other thing I had said to them is that I have worked in around 50 offices over the past 20 years, and not one of them had played music. And that if playing music was found to be overall beneficial to worker productivity I think a few of them would have caught on by now.

[clearedforlanding]

But at least I'm no longer a nobody

Who knows what will happen. It will be discussed in a management meeting next week.

The other thing I had said to them is that I have worked in around 50 offices over the past 20 years, and not one of them had played music. And that if playing music was found to be overall beneficial to worker productivity I think a few of them would have caught on by now.

So a popular worker then?

It seems to be in Spearmint Rhino's

[MarillionFan]

An update today,

This morning I spoke directly to the head of the team who are most keen on having music, presenting them with some quotes from web pages output by a Google on the subject. Some positive, some negative.
In summary some people react well to working around music, others poorly. I am definitely in the latter category.

Anyway I must have had an impact, because the music stopped, and call me paranoid I got the impression people were talking about me behind my back. I definitely heard someone say "who's GJABS?"

Later in the afternoon the boss called me into a private meeting, where he gave me a right telling off for discussing the issue with other people without going through him first. As he had requested yesterday.
He said "You're just a contractor - you don't have the right to interfere in company procedures".
But all I did was discuss the issue - I didn't tell them what to do, only what effect it would have on my productivity, and that probably of several others.
The truth of the matter is that I didn't think he would present the case assertively enough if just left to him - his "solution" being to have me work from home a lot, which is not ideal.

Anyway the boss said that they were going to carry on playing the music.

This might well result in a shorter contract than it would otherwise be, but at least I tried to persuade them.

Do you work in a call centre?

If someone said 'You're just a contractor' to me I'll tell them to **** off.

[original PM]

I agree mostly with this if you want to listen to your tunes use headphones

[sasguru]

Jeez. So many people on here don't really understand this contracting lark, do they? You're there to bill not to moan about or influence company policy.
If you couldn't stand it you should have walked out, otherwise leave well enough alone