Timeline for What's the most polite way to tell a manager "shut up and let me work"?
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| Jun 1, 2019 at 13:03 | comment | added | Gray Sheep | @GeorgeM The essence of the open workplace is that you have continuous, close, direct contact with your co-workers. Using a headphone cuts this contact off. Annoying others with the "music" coming from the headphone, is a strong, rude and very hostile workplace custom. | |
| S May 30, 2019 at 12:02 | history | suggested | Greenonline | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 29, 2019 at 22:41 | comment | added | Gray Sheep | @MiloP The primary focus of the answer is not the headphone, but the cut of the communication. For that, a firing is possible. For a headphone, not, it only worsens the case. | |
| May 29, 2019 at 22:36 | comment | added | user90842 | It is incredibly rude to put on headphones in order to cut conversation. But Gray Sheep probably doesn't realize that many if not most US workplaces are now open space, which means you're practically sitting on coworkers' lap, and that you need headphones in order to get any work done at all | |
| May 29, 2019 at 16:18 | comment | added | Milo P | This answer focuses a lot on the fact that the OP uses headphones at all, which in my (US-based) experience is standard enough in focus-based work to be essentially mandatory. The manager's complaint seems to be that the OP is visibly disengaging rather than listening to music at work at all. | |
| May 29, 2019 at 12:55 | history | edited | Rui F Ribeiro | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 29, 2019 at 9:40 | comment | added | Jan | Just wanted to point out that opinions vary on whether "istening headsets on the workplace is a bad practice". At least when it comes to software development, as in the case described by the OP. | |
| May 29, 2019 at 8:27 | comment | added | Gray Sheep | @Jan Somehow I have the impression that it has exactly zero importance for the OP, to not share his "music" with his co-workers. | |
| May 29, 2019 at 6:50 | comment | added | Jan | codingsupply.com/best-headphones-programming | |
| May 29, 2019 at 1:07 | history | edited | Gray Sheep | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 29, 2019 at 0:52 | history | answered | Gray Sheep | CC BY-SA 4.0 |