The Silence Is Deafening

Radios and CD play­ers have always been strictly for­bid­den at work and when the Inter­net on our net­work became avail­able, they added stream­ing music to the ban too. And over the years there have been peri­odic reminders that this is a no-no. In spite of this I have always lis­tened to music by stor­ing mp3s on the hard drive and play­ing them using Winamp (which makes it dou­bly wrong because load­ing unau­tho­rized soft­ware and using the work PC for any­thing besides work is for­bid­den by a dif­fer­ent set of rules.) I do play the music at such a level that unless you are in my cube, prac­ti­cally sit­ting on my lap, you can’t really hear it, so I don’t think any of my neigh­bors complained.

Last Fri­day another reminder on the music ban made the rounds via email from Human Resources, for some rea­son I took this one seri­ously and deleted sev­eral gigs of music and unin­stalled Winamp. The last two days have been really quiet in my cubical.