I already know this is going to come across snobby
You know how most offices have music playing? You know, something to keep people from going crazy from the incessant typing and mouse clicking? Well, my office is no different... except in one respect, and I can't figure out why this seems so weird to me.
On my floor, one of the partners was nice enough to bring in a radio to break the silence. He tuned it to classical-type music (one of the CBC stations, if I were to guess), which is actually not bad considering the wide variety of supposed "Easy Listening" stations which are, in fact, anything but easy to listen to. They actually sometimes make my ears bleed. But that's neither here, nor there....
Point being, a couple of my co-workers seemed to strenuously object (to borrow from Demi Moore in "A Few Good Men") to this choice of music, and switched it to more popular stations. Now, I'm a fan of just about every type of music out there (they could have switched it to quite literally anything, and it wouldn't have bothered me), but somehow the idea of Eminem blaring when a client walked into the office struck me as unprofessional. Maybe I'm a prude?
Anyway, it seemed that I wasn't the only person who felt this way, as the boss on my floor changed the radio back the following day. Which led to the same person changing the station back to the popular one. Is it too much to ask to submit to your bosses wishes as far as radio station selection goes? Especially considering he supplied the radio itself? Is classical music really all that objectionable?!? If anything, it has to be about the most work-conducive music to the greatest number of people (keeping in mind that we have people on this floor ranging in age from 25 to 76, with just about every demographic in between).
Am I really that beaten down from growing up around just adults that I don't mind when I'm expected to act like one? And who actively fights (this went on for about a week) with their boss over radio station, anyway? How childish is that?!? (not to mention stupid... he's your boss, remember... he can fire you!)
But my larger point is this: Since when was I part of a demographic (the people above that I have lumped into one person for the sake of literary continuity are all within a year of my age) that abhorred something that I thought was a universally loved art form. I had never considered the symphony, or anything of that nature to be overly snobby, or anything. I've certainly never really considered myself "cultured" (most of my familiarity with opera comes from Bugs Bunny in the Rabbit of Seville and What's Opera, Doc?, for crying out loud), it's just that I honestly thought everyone liked it, because, well... it's just good.
Apparently I was mistaken.
On my floor, one of the partners was nice enough to bring in a radio to break the silence. He tuned it to classical-type music (one of the CBC stations, if I were to guess), which is actually not bad considering the wide variety of supposed "Easy Listening" stations which are, in fact, anything but easy to listen to. They actually sometimes make my ears bleed. But that's neither here, nor there....
Point being, a couple of my co-workers seemed to strenuously object (to borrow from Demi Moore in "A Few Good Men") to this choice of music, and switched it to more popular stations. Now, I'm a fan of just about every type of music out there (they could have switched it to quite literally anything, and it wouldn't have bothered me), but somehow the idea of Eminem blaring when a client walked into the office struck me as unprofessional. Maybe I'm a prude?
Anyway, it seemed that I wasn't the only person who felt this way, as the boss on my floor changed the radio back the following day. Which led to the same person changing the station back to the popular one. Is it too much to ask to submit to your bosses wishes as far as radio station selection goes? Especially considering he supplied the radio itself? Is classical music really all that objectionable?!? If anything, it has to be about the most work-conducive music to the greatest number of people (keeping in mind that we have people on this floor ranging in age from 25 to 76, with just about every demographic in between).
Am I really that beaten down from growing up around just adults that I don't mind when I'm expected to act like one? And who actively fights (this went on for about a week) with their boss over radio station, anyway? How childish is that?!? (not to mention stupid... he's your boss, remember... he can fire you!)
But my larger point is this: Since when was I part of a demographic (the people above that I have lumped into one person for the sake of literary continuity are all within a year of my age) that abhorred something that I thought was a universally loved art form. I had never considered the symphony, or anything of that nature to be overly snobby, or anything. I've certainly never really considered myself "cultured" (most of my familiarity with opera comes from Bugs Bunny in the Rabbit of Seville and What's Opera, Doc?, for crying out loud), it's just that I honestly thought everyone liked it, because, well... it's just good.
Apparently I was mistaken.
posted by Iain @ 1:37 PM
1 Comments:
At 8:15 AM,
Anonymous said…
??? are you talking about me here??? anyhoo, it's funny because k.t. was on our floor thursday (i think) and he goes, "my, the people down here are so cultured!" lol... i shouldve told him that i chose the station...
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