Syrilrian posted:
Quazimortal posted:
I know this might be a strange suggestion, but bear with me. You could try working during your working hours.
There are far too many people who want to work but can't find a job to be taking your job that lightly, in my opinion.
Sorry if this came off badly, but being someone who was laid off a few years ago and been unable to get another real job seeing someone make a topic like this disgusts me.
I do work, and I work hard, and I do my work well.
And just so you don't assume I am doing something untoward, my own boss recommended we take 5 minutes out of every half an hour to look at something else, whether we do it at the end of the half hour, or interspersed throughout it. His words, not mine.
For me, I actually concentrate far better and am far more productive in my job, when I have some background noise going, IE allowing episodes of (insert show here) to run in the background on another monitor. Or blasting music, which I also on occasion do. Hence my request for shows or movies to allow to run whilst doing my job.
I know first hand how hard it is to find a job and believe you me, I am more than grateful for the one I have. Yes, your words did come off a bit badly to me, as you automatically seem to have assumed I was not working, or that I was mucking about instead of working. I'm sorry if it disgusts you that I do better when I have some kind of background noise whilst I am working, but that's just the way it is.
I've tried working in silence, with nothing but my computer monitor in front of me, and I am a: far less apt to stay concentrated on my work, b: get far less done when I work that way, and c: far more likely to become distracted by any random thing, if there is no background going on. It sucks that you've been unable to find a job, and I commiserate, but not every job requires intense, silence-enveloped concentration for every single second that you are working. If my job was that kind of job, I probably wouldn't last long at it, lol.
@ Stiger and Aroith, thanks I will put 'em on the list to check out. Also @Stiger, my tastes are wide and varied, but I don't need something that I will absolutely love. I just need something decent to run as background noise, that I can glance at every once in awhile to get away from the black text on a stark white screen that I stare at for 8+ hours a day. =D
Well see that isn't what I thought you were talking about. The thing I was talking about hating was when someone sits there for large periods of time when they could be working instead. You weren't really informative in your post so I had to draw my own conclusions. I do apologize for implying you don't work hard, but you have to admit there's enough lazy jerks in this world that it's the better bet to assume they want to just watch the videos instead of do their work.
As for the person who compared listening to a radio to watching a TV... HA! That is freaking hilarious.
“A painter paints his pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.
We provide the music, and you provide the silence.†~Leopold Stokowski
It is noise, much like Syrilian said I have to have something going to keep my mind from distracting at every little thing. 
