When I worked at a fast food restaurant we were allowed to listen to the radio, but we did get it taken away a few times because some moron's just couldn't understand why we weren't allowed to play the music loud.
When I worked at Canadian Tire I had a few shifts where we started a few hours before the store opened and we were able to listen to whatever we wanted, but had to turn it off when the music was played over the store intercom (when the stereo was working).
My 1st IT job we didn't listen to the radio in the office but we were on the road quite a bit, so that didn't matter, plus when we were in the office we always had about a dozen customers in the "store".
My 2nd IT job we listened to whatever we wanted... just not Greenday, my boss hated Greenday. We had a radio that we sometimes tuned into, and sometimes we'd listen to internet radio. Whoever got in to the office 1st usually got to pick. Often the guy in the corner had 80s music playing and me in the opposite corner would be listening to the FAN960 and it didn't interfere with each other.
My current job in the common area (not really cubes), there is about two or three radios(so everybody can hear), all tuned to the same station and if somebody wants to listen to something else they can put on earphones. People in the offices (depending on the person) will listen to whatever they want. The person who wants music banned has a hard time concentrating when there is background noise.... I don't understand it because the department just outside of our offices is full of a bunch of chatterboxes and that bothers me, but not him. But he'll come into my office if I'm listening to something and ask me to turn it off because he can't talk to me while I have it on... I keep it so low that you can't even hear it when you are just outside my door.
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