Do they forbid music at your office? They do at mine. It's always like a weird atmosphere until the loud people come in. lol. Not a sound, not a peep. If you didn't look around, it's as if people weren't there.

Seriously. It's a bad idea to have music?! I understand that from a concentration perspective, but come on. Let's make business even more boring. lol.

On the other hand, I did work at a place where they had radio playing but they never changed station. It felt like Groundhog day. lmao.

Actually, I often forget to put on music or the background YouTube on TV for a whole day. Just concentrated working. Those are the best days. If it's so easy to listen music during work, it's maybe better to do something more complex of something.

I am working on a chatapp and make some challenges on purpose to keep it exciting since a chatapp is kinda meh. Something that I didn't think about is that as chatapp is a lot of frontend. Don't know really how to make that fun.

Forbidding is music is a bit hardcore, because that's a personal preference. Kinda sucks if it gets forced on you. If someone goes well on it, it's fine right.

But it sounds you're heaving a serious business what would kinda appreciate as well. It wouldn't be a showstopper for me. Music very optional.

@retoor Concentrated working is good.

It's fun to think about how your chatapp will be as good or better than the current ones and perhaps fix flaws others have.

I just don't like it when I'm at the office and if I'm not using headphones, it's eerily quiet, like people aren't people.

I remember being annoyed school didn't like me listening to music so I snuck earphones under my shirt and hair (from the back)

guess now everyone has wireless earphones so that wouldn't fool anybody anymore

I was relieved when I got hired at an internship that they didn't mind me listening to music. people seemed to kind of humanize me more by my habit of doing it even

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if loud people come in maybe they ban music so you guys can socialize instead of being "antisocial"

We work remotely, but I worked in an office before where they had a TV right above my head playing music all day long and I had trouble focusing. It wasn't bad music, but it's still bothersome.

Taste in music varies widely. You don‘t want to be annoyed by some shitty music that someone else likes.

Silence is the best, but if there is any noise, music wins

@jestdotty Wtf lmao jestdotty. Clever.

I don't those wireless earphones, at least not the buds.

They don't mind me listening to music either, as long as it doesn't play out in the open. lol.

But it's fucking funny when management devices to have a lol and play their music out loud. Suddenly then it's ok.

Face. Palm. Oil. jk

Yes, when you show yourself as human, people can relate to you. I project myself as business as fuck, so people are scared of me, sadly.

Socialize, hm, it depends. Some projects are so fucking busy that I don't find a moment's time to take a break because the fucking PM it always needy. You can see my fucking frustration in my swearing. lol. Thankfully it's not always like that and I take breaks.

@Lensflare There must be some way to resolve it without having everyone muted. lol

@CaptainRant

Well from what I gather, it means music playing out loud outta speakers is banned, which, like @Lensflare said, should be a must.

In your headphones? I'm gonna play whatever the fuck I want, management be damned.

I hate close quarters bs

@CaptainRant some people say it looks like Irc, but I don't get it. It supports YouTube embeddings, fast file transfer and stuff. Also you have an avatar. The interface is just very roomy and black, like everything is floating. But yes, it has the decency of IRC and it's pure chat. It has AI built in. Also the AI bot can add devrant users to the spam filter.

@retoor Finally a useful application of A.I. jk jk. Yeah, it has nice features. And bot approval, which is great.