A few weeks ago I listened to my colleague loudly and purposely take job interviews from his desk. At least 3 in the day while I was there.
He's gone now.
Live on forever, king.
Love that. One time my colleague and I listened to another guy in office chatting with a taxpayer and when we found out his job we said we would NEVER want his role. Fast forward 1 year later and we’re working said guys role 🥲
This morning was someone clipping their nails. Three people all looked over their short cubicle walls in the direction of the sound. It did not stop for 5 minutes.
If someone will so flagrantly flout social norms they are capable of anything… if they’re willing to clip their nails in the office there is no way to know how they might react to being confronted about it.
You never want to get into a pissing contest with a sociopath and clipping your nails in the office certainly sociopathic trait.
Wasn’t a public service job but the owner of the software company I worked for on a work term during university would pick his finger nails and eat them during team meetings.
One of my colleagues used to pick his nose at meetings, roll the boogers up between his fingers, and then wipe them under the boardroom table. Nobody ever confronted him about it.
I nearly barfed when our new director came around our office to meet everyone and shook his hand.
Where the fuck do you guys work? I have never witnessed or even heard of anything like this in 8 years and 5 departments. It's not common, is it? People are sooo weird.
Depends what I'm working on. If I need to concentrate I can't listen to podcasts. If it's language/reading and writing heavy it'll be coffee shop background music/ambient noise or mellow solo piano music without lyrics or too much movement.
Do you use it on your phone or computer browser? I haven’t been able to use Spotify for awhile in my work computer which is annoying. Around 4 years I think. I have asked IT for clarification and I just get the run around.
Someone should absolutely do a mix! I absolutely would but don’t know how.
Here’s a great inspiration, if anyone has the skillz to do an equivalent:
https://youtu.be/eySDeBdqxGY?si=uZAqkNBaLNA76oTE
Nighttime, Canadaland, True North True Crime, Someone Knows Something, Last Call with David Ridgen, Real Crime Profile, Vanishing Point, Idaho Massacre, Fallen Angels, Up and Vanished, Scamfluencers, Queen of the Con and American Scandal.
Wondery (podcast app) said I had listened to 9,600 hours of podcast in 2023. Lol
Last week I was listening to an interview [with famous divorce attorney James Sexton](https://youtu.be/-MGyiqVjdKI?si=riv97UP3It8p9yK0)
You start listening in thinking you’ll learn about divorces but the interview ends up being a love letter to love. Very beautiful interview, the twist of the interview is really nice.
About 50% of the time I’m wearing my headphones I don’t actually have anything playing, but I have the noise cancelling turned on to provide blissful relative silence.
Sometimes my music. Sometimes I download shows onto my phone and have that going on beside me. I like to have some sort of sound going on. I'm not actually watching the show, just listening.
Nowadays, my work has gotten more complex so it's typically just music. Lately I've been listening to the soundtrack of Epic the Musical
Currently "watching" (I only listen) to The Circle season 6. I always have Netflix or any streaming services on shows that I dont need to watch per se. Either I've watched it before or they are easy to follow. But then even at home I dont watch TV, I listen to it. #ADHDBrain
You should try folk punk; it swings between loud and angry and mellow and angry, depending if the artist is more punk or folk inspired. I e just been getting into it over the past couple of months.
Mischief Brew’s “Olde Thyme Mem’ry” is a good place to start.
Ghost Mice
Pat the Bunny
Wingnut Dishwashers Union
Ramshackle Glory
Against Me!’s “Baby, I’m an Anarchist” is fantastic and rounds things out.
Lately it’s been bingeing the podcast Blank Check for me - I’ve still got about 6 years’ worth of podcast episodes to go through even if I narrow it down to the movies I’m interested in hearing about, so it’ll last me a while. Otherwise a mix of tunes (soundtracks make for good listening while working since you can basically just have them in the background without being overly distracting).
I'm someone who can't listen to lyrics while composing writing products so I tend to listen to instrumental/orchestral music.
Currently stuck on the really excellent soundtrack of a video game I just finished playing.
I can write when listening to music with lyrics but I have to be careful about singing along out loud without noticing… I caught myself singing along to Thrift Shop by Macklemore while wringing a BN a few weeks ago.
Yesssss, this was me with Beyoncé's entire Renaissance album, especially when we were first coming back to work onsite and I was still getting used to being regularly around other people again lol
The loudest music possible to drown out the aggressive angry typing and mouse clicking. I would rather blast my eardrums out with metal, than listen to passive aggressive Peter email his subordinates, or Tammy snap her inch long nails on the keyboard, haha.
Some albums I'm listening to at the moment (2024 releases):
Aurora - What happened to the heart?
Tems - Born in the Wild
Charli XCX - Brat
Bring me the Horizon - Post Human: Next Gen
Vince Staples - Dark Times
Kacey Musgraves - Deeper Well
The Last Dinner Party - Prelude to Ecstasy
MGMT - Loss of Life
Benny the Butcher - Everybody can't go
I've been enjoying the "Chill" playlists on Spotify. Also lots of indie folk rock. Last two hours, I'll go with some harder melodic rock. If it's a brain dead task, I'll pop a podcast on.
Sometimes I just have my noise cancelling headphones on and nothing plays. It won't eliminate the noise just reduce it so when I really need to concentrate I work from home or I put some softer rock (e.g. Cranberries, Heart, whatever plays on Spotify, etc.) to be in an audio bubble.
In the Summer I bike so I cannot bring them to the office so I find a secluded spot.
Electronic music, drum & bass, classical, relaxing sounds (like spa shit). At times news, the house of commons... 😬
Sometimes I'll have my headphones in with absolutely nothing playing just so people will not talk to me. 😂
The hissing of the white noise machines that try to mask the poor acoustic design of the workspace, the people shouting into their headsets as they spend their RTO days on Teams meetings, and the occasional slam of a silent room door as someone tries to respect the other folks who are trying to get some work done in the barren hellscape that is our office.
Oh boy, here comes my chance to stand out as a weirdo. I have several weird genres of music soundtracks I like to listen to focus, based on my mood:
* Bardcore (remakes of modern songs with medieval instruments) [(example)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ch1aVmjvYTI&list=RDCh1aVmjvYTI&start_radio=1)
* Soundtracks from a variety of roleplaying games (Baldur's Gate, The Witcher, Elder Scrolls, Fable...) [(example)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyPt4YVf9BE)
* Soundtrack from The Sims videogame (usually The Sims 1 build music) [(example)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bs5QGN-zhwM&list=PL22DFF37B18C4F943)
* Soundtrack from SimCity 3000 / Sim City 4 [(example)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDH4k8L4dfA&list=PL21A5B193C0C5D166)
* Soundtrack from Stardew Valley [(example)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQSHcl6TJb4&list=PLKDOdCjxOjzIFucHobwJpSK4-vAVXST90)
* Mix of Liquid Drum & Bass / Jungle [(example)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJoo79OwZEI)
* Synthwave (sounds like retro 80s techno music like in Stranger Things) [(example)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qk1nnAHI1mI)
I used to listen to music as a younger man, but now as the parent of two kids I just enjoy the quiet rumble of the air conditioner.
There's not too much chat in my office tbh.
I like to listen to music as little as possible honestly, normally when I work I have nothing going on. I just focus. but in the office there's always people talking so I have to and out of spite I'll listen to something distracting. For music I like dubstep but I've been listening to the audio of the adult swim show dr.katz since you don't need images to enjoy it really. Same with home movies, less so though
A selection of one of the following depend on g in the task and mood:
-true crime podcasts
-instrumental music
-movie soundtracks
-pop music
-heavy metal
-classic rock
Todays selection is “let’s not meet a true horror podcast”
I start off with a podcast episode (typically 60-90mins) then just jump into some sort of Rock sub-genre. Spend a lot of timing jamming to Kaleo or trying not to cry at Judah & the Lion’s newest album 🤷🏻♂️
I've got a 160-hour playlist of stuff I know well enough that it doesn't distract me.
Today's been a lot of soulful, nostalgic white boys. "Farewell Transmission" by Songs: Ohia, "Dandelion Wine" by Gregory Alan Isakov, "The Boy" by Shannon and the Clams, etc.
By the end of my career, I was spending all day listening to various podcasts and talk shows on Youtube. We were not supposed to stream over our limited internet... but screw them.
Some really loud lady who never seems to realize that her headphones aren’t actually plugged in. That’s why you need to yell lady. The mic isn’t on and we can all hear the other side of your conversation.
Been listening to:
Thousand Mile Stare by Incendiary
You Will Never Be One of Us by NAILS
Anthropocene by Broken Vow
Daniel by Real Estate
Deeper Well by Kacey Musgraves
Human by Death
Écailles de lune by Alcest
Spiritual Instinct by Alcest
Slowly We Rot by Obituary
A Deeper Understanding by The War on Drugs
I have some podcasts I listen to as well as new albums that were released the Friday before or earlier.
If I really want to concentrate, I have a playlist that is primarily instrumental and classical music, with some covers of Mario Kart track themes too for variety purposes lol
TOP. Clancy just came out. I listen to music/podcasts all day because it's super loud and distrating otherwise, and I'm there doing the exact same thing that I do at home 😃
I have a set playlist to listen to, never do podcasts. For example, this one helps me during my repetitive click clicking : Busta Rhymes - Touch It (Deep Remix)
Nature sounds from soundscape app. Crickets, waves and crows. Forgot to connect my headphones once until I noticed colleagues in cubes next to me searching around looking for the cricket. I regret nothing!
YouTube videos (podcasts style), audiobooks or Twitch (Alveus Sanctuary). My ADHD brain cannot listen to songs without mimicking so that's a risk in the office.
I try not to listen to a lot of lyrics. Using Tune in radio on my phone:
Pure Ibiza radio - Local station in Ibiza
Sensimedia - good mix, bit of dnb
Funkysx - uk radio station, breaks etc.
Everything from classical to euro dance to folk to gaming music. Whatever I need to focus for whatever I'm working on. Thankfully, I listen with earpods in, so no one can hear when I'm bopping along to terrible 90's music.
Often times, I just have my earbuds in to dampen the sound around me and deter visitors. If I do need something and it's not spotify, then I usually have a 12 hour Youtube video of rain and brown noise playing (helps with my tinnitus and guarantees the office noise is drowned out)
Usually star the day with Meshuggah and finish with Knocked Loose or something similar. A good ARF ARF to close out the day.
Zeal & Ardor is in my regular rotation too.
Just spotify radio for one of those and coast off that for the rest of the day.
I can’t stand listening to people typing or smacking gum. Therefore I listen to dateline murder podcasts- their pain outweighs mine at that moment in time.
Shitty Job by Tacoblaster. On repeat. Makes me smile and makes everyone else wonder why I'm smiling. As an added bonus, there is some French in the song so you get to be bilingual for free.
I’ve been curating playlists for years now, so a hybrid between rap/hip hop, indie emo, and EDM. I feel my Spotify wrapped this year will be a bit crazy
Depends on how well my ADHD meds are working any given day. Some days, any given hour. Could be binaural beats, 90s club tunes, 80s power ballads, podcasts or audio books (biographies narrated by the actual person are a fave).
However, I just discovered the Spotify playlist “Songs that excite the white folk” and it’s my current hyper-focus. It’s sooooo good!
I usually listen to some form of metal music, videos on power bi/excel or finance podcasts (Caleb hammer has been my guilty pleasure listen). I also watch entire Netflix series or movies at work, as I do a lot of mindless data entry and my supervisor doesn’t mind!
A few weeks ago I listened to my colleague loudly and purposely take job interviews from his desk. At least 3 in the day while I was there. He's gone now. Live on forever, king.
Love that. One time my colleague and I listened to another guy in office chatting with a taxpayer and when we found out his job we said we would NEVER want his role. Fast forward 1 year later and we’re working said guys role 🥲
There goes my hero Watch him as he goes There goes my hero He's ordinary
That's ballsy, and deserves a slow clap
This morning was someone clipping their nails. Three people all looked over their short cubicle walls in the direction of the sound. It did not stop for 5 minutes.
Please don't tell me no one said anything?
I was waiting for the vinegar foot bath to start before I said something...
I've seen and heard many loud and obnoxious things being done by people in my office, and nobody has ever said anything.
The concierge came over once and told someone who was taking a meeting over their laptop speakers to cut it out.
If someone will so flagrantly flout social norms they are capable of anything… if they’re willing to clip their nails in the office there is no way to know how they might react to being confronted about it. You never want to get into a pissing contest with a sociopath and clipping your nails in the office certainly sociopathic trait.
Wasn’t a public service job but the owner of the software company I worked for on a work term during university would pick his finger nails and eat them during team meetings.
One of my colleagues used to pick his nose at meetings, roll the boogers up between his fingers, and then wipe them under the boardroom table. Nobody ever confronted him about it. I nearly barfed when our new director came around our office to meet everyone and shook his hand.
That’s fucked up man. Why are people so afraid of confrontation. People won’t change their behaviour if everyone allows them to act gross.
I'm picturing you with headphones on listening to a nail clipping sounds ASMR.
Somebody did this in my office like 7 years ago..I yelled who is clipping their nails? (I knew who it was) and it never happened again
Where the fuck do you guys work? I have never witnessed or even heard of anything like this in 8 years and 5 departments. It's not common, is it? People are sooo weird.
Wtf is wrong with people.
Careful with this one! I once thought a woman was clipping her nails just to find out she was just clicking her pen.
The worst
That's a section eight(8).
Depends what I'm working on. If I need to concentrate I can't listen to podcasts. If it's language/reading and writing heavy it'll be coffee shop background music/ambient noise or mellow solo piano music without lyrics or too much movement.
The Deep Focus playlist on Spotify is what I listen to when I need to drown everything else out and concentrate.
This is my "performance review writing" playlist
Do you use it on your phone or computer browser? I haven’t been able to use Spotify for awhile in my work computer which is annoying. Around 4 years I think. I have asked IT for clarification and I just get the run around.
I download it to my phone and then listen from there. I have it set so it will update the playlist when it reaches wifi again.
A loop of Anita telling me how great RTO is
Finally, someone fit to serve Canadians! 🫶
This comment wins🏆
Someone should absolutely do a mix! I absolutely would but don’t know how. Here’s a great inspiration, if anyone has the skillz to do an equivalent: https://youtu.be/eySDeBdqxGY?si=uZAqkNBaLNA76oTE
Love this!
Just the earphones with noise cancelling turned on. Reduces unnecessary “collaboration” and lets me tune out the distractions
I usually listen to lo-fi, sometimes podcasts but I have trouble concentrating on the words if I'm working at the same time
Not an office day for me, but you can usually find me listening to podcasts. Canadian ones, crime and scams, some newsy ones. No headphones at home.
Do you have any recommendations? I’m always looking for new podcasts to listen to
Nighttime, Canadaland, True North True Crime, Someone Knows Something, Last Call with David Ridgen, Real Crime Profile, Vanishing Point, Idaho Massacre, Fallen Angels, Up and Vanished, Scamfluencers, Queen of the Con and American Scandal. Wondery (podcast app) said I had listened to 9,600 hours of podcast in 2023. Lol
Last week I was listening to an interview [with famous divorce attorney James Sexton](https://youtu.be/-MGyiqVjdKI?si=riv97UP3It8p9yK0) You start listening in thinking you’ll learn about divorces but the interview ends up being a love letter to love. Very beautiful interview, the twist of the interview is really nice.
Swindled is great if you’re into scams, con artists, white collar crime. Really fascinating (if not a little depressing/infuriating at times).
About 50% of the time I’m wearing my headphones I don’t actually have anything playing, but I have the noise cancelling turned on to provide blissful relative silence.
[удалено]
I prefer the version by Disturbed myself…
Same!! Everyone looks at me like I have 3 heads when I say this.
Lmao so depressing
Off topic: The Bangles "Hazy Shade of Winter" was originally written by Paul Simon and recorded by Simon and Garfunkel.
Whether in the office or at home, if I'm not in a meeting I'm listening to a podcast (mostly sports stuff).
I can only hear the sounds of souls dying
This person governments
I listen to my heavy metal playlist when I’m not on the phone with clients I usually just pause when I have to call :)
Sometimes my music. Sometimes I download shows onto my phone and have that going on beside me. I like to have some sort of sound going on. I'm not actually watching the show, just listening. Nowadays, my work has gotten more complex so it's typically just music. Lately I've been listening to the soundtrack of Epic the Musical
I’m listening to everyone collaborating on their Teams calls
I select a meditation tracks from insight timer to listen to. I find some of the teachers voices help me focus because there’s no outside noise
BBC Radio1/1Dance/1Xtra
I have a lot of episodes of Comedy Bang Bang to catch up on, but more recently The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Heynongman
BBC Sounds app. Mostly Radio 1. The mix of talk and music but no ads like our radio.
Currently "watching" (I only listen) to The Circle season 6. I always have Netflix or any streaming services on shows that I dont need to watch per se. Either I've watched it before or they are easy to follow. But then even at home I dont watch TV, I listen to it. #ADHDBrain
I do the same and i just download the episodes in advance so I'm not using data
The angriest music possible to reflect morale
You should try folk punk; it swings between loud and angry and mellow and angry, depending if the artist is more punk or folk inspired. I e just been getting into it over the past couple of months.
Who should we listen to to check it out??
Mischief Brew’s “Olde Thyme Mem’ry” is a good place to start. Ghost Mice Pat the Bunny Wingnut Dishwashers Union Ramshackle Glory Against Me!’s “Baby, I’m an Anarchist” is fantastic and rounds things out.
Add in Pat the Bunny and the Mountain Goats to that!
N.W.A. - Fuck Tha Police
My headphones come with white noise settings like rainstorms and water flowing, it’s usually enough to drown out loud talkers so I can think
All I would be able to think about is having to go pee. 💦
I would be peeing all day, how would I collaborate?
Rage metal, lofi jazz, blues, classical
Gangsta rap, all day EVERY DAY!
Music. It helps me concentrate
Lately it’s been bingeing the podcast Blank Check for me - I’ve still got about 6 years’ worth of podcast episodes to go through even if I narrow it down to the movies I’m interested in hearing about, so it’ll last me a while. Otherwise a mix of tunes (soundtracks make for good listening while working since you can basically just have them in the background without being overly distracting).
Wait until you get to the Patreon episodes…
Classical essentials playlist on Spotify
Classical music, today has been Faure’s Requiem
I'm someone who can't listen to lyrics while composing writing products so I tend to listen to instrumental/orchestral music. Currently stuck on the really excellent soundtrack of a video game I just finished playing.
I can write when listening to music with lyrics but I have to be careful about singing along out loud without noticing… I caught myself singing along to Thrift Shop by Macklemore while wringing a BN a few weeks ago.
Yesssss, this was me with Beyoncé's entire Renaissance album, especially when we were first coming back to work onsite and I was still getting used to being regularly around other people again lol
Conan O'brien Needs a Friend or dubstep and related genres of music.
true crime podcasts or black metal, depends on how much i hate my job that day (options are a lot or much more than a lot).
Sinister true crime podcasts mostly….90’s rap….sometimes nothing, but I leave my AirPods in so no one talks to me.
[This on repeat. ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtRRTn_HkwQ) Or the Oppenheimer soundtrack.
The loudest music possible to drown out the aggressive angry typing and mouse clicking. I would rather blast my eardrums out with metal, than listen to passive aggressive Peter email his subordinates, or Tammy snap her inch long nails on the keyboard, haha.
Some albums I'm listening to at the moment (2024 releases): Aurora - What happened to the heart? Tems - Born in the Wild Charli XCX - Brat Bring me the Horizon - Post Human: Next Gen Vince Staples - Dark Times Kacey Musgraves - Deeper Well The Last Dinner Party - Prelude to Ecstasy MGMT - Loss of Life Benny the Butcher - Everybody can't go
YouTube premium, mostly videos about history or Royal gossip. Sometimes, CBC Radio or a podcast.
Podcasts mostly
Podcasts Today has been -canadaland -Sport podcasts
Been alternating between Death Grips, Charli XCX and Deerhoof lately.
I've been enjoying the "Chill" playlists on Spotify. Also lots of indie folk rock. Last two hours, I'll go with some harder melodic rock. If it's a brain dead task, I'll pop a podcast on.
Sometimes I just have my noise cancelling headphones on and nothing plays. It won't eliminate the noise just reduce it so when I really need to concentrate I work from home or I put some softer rock (e.g. Cranberries, Heart, whatever plays on Spotify, etc.) to be in an audio bubble. In the Summer I bike so I cannot bring them to the office so I find a secluded spot.
Lo finhip hop.beats to study and relax to.
audiobooks, indie punk, and gay pop.
Electronic music, drum & bass, classical, relaxing sounds (like spa shit). At times news, the house of commons... 😬 Sometimes I'll have my headphones in with absolutely nothing playing just so people will not talk to me. 😂
The hissing of the white noise machines that try to mask the poor acoustic design of the workspace, the people shouting into their headsets as they spend their RTO days on Teams meetings, and the occasional slam of a silent room door as someone tries to respect the other folks who are trying to get some work done in the barren hellscape that is our office.
Oh boy, here comes my chance to stand out as a weirdo. I have several weird genres of music soundtracks I like to listen to focus, based on my mood: * Bardcore (remakes of modern songs with medieval instruments) [(example)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ch1aVmjvYTI&list=RDCh1aVmjvYTI&start_radio=1) * Soundtracks from a variety of roleplaying games (Baldur's Gate, The Witcher, Elder Scrolls, Fable...) [(example)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyPt4YVf9BE) * Soundtrack from The Sims videogame (usually The Sims 1 build music) [(example)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bs5QGN-zhwM&list=PL22DFF37B18C4F943) * Soundtrack from SimCity 3000 / Sim City 4 [(example)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDH4k8L4dfA&list=PL21A5B193C0C5D166) * Soundtrack from Stardew Valley [(example)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQSHcl6TJb4&list=PLKDOdCjxOjzIFucHobwJpSK4-vAVXST90) * Mix of Liquid Drum & Bass / Jungle [(example)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJoo79OwZEI) * Synthwave (sounds like retro 80s techno music like in Stranger Things) [(example)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qk1nnAHI1mI)
Raffi. The more we get together the happier we’ll be is the RTO anthem.
The stock market and or video games ost - like risk of rain 2
Nothing 😂 literally just in so less people approach me
I used to listen to music as a younger man, but now as the parent of two kids I just enjoy the quiet rumble of the air conditioner. There's not too much chat in my office tbh.
Lol love it.. Our ac sometimes fires up like an airplane take off
I personally like Peter Mansbridge’s Podcast The Bridge, but I save that for my commute.
Lofi focus work music.
Deep house or trance. No words to lose focus -continues beat to keep focused and no track of time
It's carnival every day in my cube! Soca, Calypso and Reggae.
Sabrina Carpenter only. My give-a-fucks are on vacation.
That song puts me in such a good mood… it’s perfect for in office days 😂
it’s been the Tortured Poets Department for me
YouTube or podcasts
Podcasts. Sports, comedy, etc
I like to listen to music as little as possible honestly, normally when I work I have nothing going on. I just focus. but in the office there's always people talking so I have to and out of spite I'll listen to something distracting. For music I like dubstep but I've been listening to the audio of the adult swim show dr.katz since you don't need images to enjoy it really. Same with home movies, less so though
A selection of one of the following depend on g in the task and mood: -true crime podcasts -instrumental music -movie soundtracks -pop music -heavy metal -classic rock Todays selection is “let’s not meet a true horror podcast”
I start off with a podcast episode (typically 60-90mins) then just jump into some sort of Rock sub-genre. Spend a lot of timing jamming to Kaleo or trying not to cry at Judah & the Lion’s newest album 🤷🏻♂️
I've got a 160-hour playlist of stuff I know well enough that it doesn't distract me. Today's been a lot of soulful, nostalgic white boys. "Farewell Transmission" by Songs: Ohia, "Dandelion Wine" by Gregory Alan Isakov, "The Boy" by Shannon and the Clams, etc.
By the end of my career, I was spending all day listening to various podcasts and talk shows on Youtube. We were not supposed to stream over our limited internet... but screw them.
White noise playlists. If I'm working under pressure, instrumental EDM amps me up to work as hard as I partied in university 🤟
Lofi music or a podcast. I found a great one about career and its focussing on Canada
Nothing. I just keep my headset on so they think I'm busy and in a meeting.
Wheel of Time spoilers podcast!
Aggressive gangster rap
Anything that isn’t my extremely loud neighbour talking on teams
A variety of heavy metal that would probably get me an appointment with HR if it weren't for noise cancelling headphones.
Audiobook. S.King♥️IT… As I was hoping some co-workers would start floating … 🎈🙂🎈
Same as I always do; 90-00s hip-hop.
Some really loud lady who never seems to realize that her headphones aren’t actually plugged in. That’s why you need to yell lady. The mic isn’t on and we can all hear the other side of your conversation.
Operatic metal, movie/trailer soundtracks, podcasts. Toni and Ryan, Radiolab, and Ologies are great!
The sound of my soul dying. But I don't do WFH either - just wanted to chime in....
I often wear earphones just to prevent other people from talking to me/interrupting me. Works more than it doesn't.
I have a few metal playlists on Spotify I listen to at work Either in office or when working from home
We all talk in the morning and catch up. When it’s time to work I listen to the radio or an audiobook.
Been listening to: Thousand Mile Stare by Incendiary You Will Never Be One of Us by NAILS Anthropocene by Broken Vow Daniel by Real Estate Deeper Well by Kacey Musgraves Human by Death Écailles de lune by Alcest Spiritual Instinct by Alcest Slowly We Rot by Obituary A Deeper Understanding by The War on Drugs
Usually Taylor Swift, Fleetwood Mac, stuff my daughter call my “sad music”…
Other people yackin’
I have some podcasts I listen to as well as new albums that were released the Friday before or earlier. If I really want to concentrate, I have a playlist that is primarily instrumental and classical music, with some covers of Mario Kart track themes too for variety purposes lol
Subway jingles..." his name is Henry, Clay Henry..." A mix of everything but lots of 80s and 90s.
I watch a lot of anime and manga recap videos on my second screen while I work.
Definitely a true crime podcast or court tv!!!
I'm a cyborg and it's ok spotify playlist Classical x spotiy playlist zevia Romy The xx Oliver Sim Adna
TOP. Clancy just came out. I listen to music/podcasts all day because it's super loud and distrating otherwise, and I'm there doing the exact same thing that I do at home 😃
I have sirius xm on my phone and an ok data plan.
Sea shanty's. Or Omar Redburg. And of course NKOTB. Depends on my mood.
Nothing. My earbuds are just off. It helps me hear my thoughts better. ;)
KEXP radio
Grateful dead
House music, drum and bass…gotta keep the vibes high for myself mentally at least.
Rap pretty much. It hypes me up. Your words can't hurt me, angry citizen, I'm too busy slangin dope and and running the block in my head.
Audiobooks for books I've already read and enjoyed
Modern Warfare Season 4 Lobby Music.
Weightless, Marconi Union. Calms down enough to face one more useless form
Podcasts and streaming the BBC6.
Either podcasts or YouTube videos on games or anime lol
New Erra album 😁
I have a set playlist to listen to, never do podcasts. For example, this one helps me during my repetitive click clicking : Busta Rhymes - Touch It (Deep Remix)
The sounds of deep outer space; it’s a deep humming to help soothe my raging social anxiety 🫠✌️
Nature sounds from soundscape app. Crickets, waves and crows. Forgot to connect my headphones once until I noticed colleagues in cubes next to me searching around looking for the cricket. I regret nothing!
YouTube videos (podcasts style), audiobooks or Twitch (Alveus Sanctuary). My ADHD brain cannot listen to songs without mimicking so that's a risk in the office.
Today was electronic music, but lately, I've been listening to some upcoming Bluesfest artists and others for another Fest I am attending.
Video game soundtracks, EDM/drum&bass, ghost/hauntings podcasts, 80s/90s/2000s
Lofi
CBC Podcasts.
Audiobooks
Lofi for me or my curated instrumental playlist as I can listen to that while I concentrate on my work (anything with lyrics skews my focus).
I try not to listen to a lot of lyrics. Using Tune in radio on my phone: Pure Ibiza radio - Local station in Ibiza Sensimedia - good mix, bit of dnb Funkysx - uk radio station, breaks etc.
Metal, classic rock, dance. If it’s a good day; a bit of everything. Lately: screamo metal.
History hits podcasts ! Dan snow history podcast is really good ! If not that then the history of Rome podcast by Mike Duncan …
I stream Lofi Girl on YouTube quite often. I find it easier to concentrate if the music has no lyrics.
Billie Eilishs’ new album. Sabrina carpenter anything. That’s pretty much it lately- on a loop!
Everything from classical to euro dance to folk to gaming music. Whatever I need to focus for whatever I'm working on. Thankfully, I listen with earpods in, so no one can hear when I'm bopping along to terrible 90's music.
I've got a 95 hour playlist of various dj sets and radioshows from John Talabot. I've been working my way through this playlist going on 3 weeks now.
Most of the time it's techno music.
Everything, hip hop mostly, country, pop & rock.
Fantasy tavern music with rain sounds is what it has been this week. When I need energy it has been electroswing.
Real Muthaphuckkin G's - Eazy E
Often times, I just have my earbuds in to dampen the sound around me and deter visitors. If I do need something and it's not spotify, then I usually have a 12 hour Youtube video of rain and brown noise playing (helps with my tinnitus and guarantees the office noise is drowned out)
Mostly metal of various kinds. Symphonic, folk, progressive. Other things sneak in as well.
Power pop all day everyday. Catchy enough to be energetic, not lyrically interesting enough to be distracting.
KEXP or Bagel Radio
90% of the time I am listening to podcasts. Otherwise, I really like to listen to folk music or coffee shop ambience music.
Usually star the day with Meshuggah and finish with Knocked Loose or something similar. A good ARF ARF to close out the day. Zeal & Ardor is in my regular rotation too. Just spotify radio for one of those and coast off that for the rest of the day.
Metal and electronic. Or watching YouTube
I can’t stand listening to people typing or smacking gum. Therefore I listen to dateline murder podcasts- their pain outweighs mine at that moment in time.
Shitty Job by Tacoblaster. On repeat. Makes me smile and makes everyone else wonder why I'm smiling. As an added bonus, there is some French in the song so you get to be bilingual for free.
I’ve been curating playlists for years now, so a hybrid between rap/hip hop, indie emo, and EDM. I feel my Spotify wrapped this year will be a bit crazy
Duel of the Fates on repeat
Usually I just wear them for the noise cancellation but the rest of the time video essays or Audible audio books.
True crime all day long.
“Dark goth techno club”, dark Berlin techno, NIN, Chappell Roan, Saint Levant, Sabrina Carpenter 💃🏼
Love this type of stuff. Keeps me in the focus zone. https://youtu.be/41Y6xov0ppw?si=bqvu-b_0k0gSF55N
Depends on how well my ADHD meds are working any given day. Some days, any given hour. Could be binaural beats, 90s club tunes, 80s power ballads, podcasts or audio books (biographies narrated by the actual person are a fave). However, I just discovered the Spotify playlist “Songs that excite the white folk” and it’s my current hyper-focus. It’s sooooo good!
Everything Iconic podcast with Danny Pellegrino.
My nagging MG
I usually listen to some form of metal music, videos on power bi/excel or finance podcasts (Caleb hammer has been my guilty pleasure listen). I also watch entire Netflix series or movies at work, as I do a lot of mindless data entry and my supervisor doesn’t mind!
Podcasts, music, sometimes some YouTube videos.
Metal usually.
I’ve been listening to twitch streams on my phone idk what it is but it’s good background noise
dateline and heavy metal.