What am I listening to THIS VERY SECOND?
Our phone sales team in a row of temporary cubicles ten feet away talking REALLY LOUD into their phones, explaining to our outside sales people how to rob people of their life savings to make a better commission. Somehow these two guys' voices can cut right through any sound dampening, headphones, you name it. Doesn't help that they like to stand in their cubes and turn around as they talk...
Oh, you meant music. No idea, I can't hear it. Two pairs of NC headphones have been 'borrowed' by the church group that uses our building on the weekends so now I just keep a relatively cheap pair of around-the-ear non-cancelling 'phones at my desk.
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“For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.”
―Carl Sagan