Independents:
How many of you have music, background or otherwise, playing at your practice ?
Independents:
How many of you have music, background or otherwise, playing at your practice ?
Smoooooooth jazz!
High Abbe,
Do you use Muzak, radio, computer, or CDs ?
Johns
Radio.....it's free!
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We don't play music in our office, but I wouldn't mind hearing some soft classical in the background...
It's like being a travel agent... I help people see the world!
Easy listening radio station, or sometimes NPR.
We have a radio that we turn on.
Smooth Jazz. . .
on the radio. Every once in awhile one of the youngsters tries to crank some rock and roll up. We usually thump them upside the head and make them buy lunch. We're proud to be an office where old people rule!!
Several people mentioned jazz. For some reason listening to smooth jazz bothers me and makes me feel jumpy.
In the lab we play old rock (50's - 70's), it helps us get more done. And anyway, we're all old enough to remember it.
John Coltrane, Richie Havens, Ray Charles, Charlie Parker, Louie Armstrong, Al Dimeola-J.Mclaughlin-Paco Delucia, Miles Davis, David Grisman, Tangos Esternos, Boleros, After Silence...
Music all the time:)
I'm totally for smooth jazz, too. Not original, but this many optical professionals can't be wrong.
You should try Chris Botti. Other than getting dumped by Katie Couric (eeewww), this guy's cool.
Question to those more knowledgeable than I: How easy is it to install sattelite radio? Do you need to put a dish on the roof?
I like that comment.....................what about the customers? If you have a young crowd they hate the oldie stuff. They want the boom boom box.Originally Posted by Framebender
Darn. I was hoping you were playing hip-hop. I value incongruity highly.
metal in the lab.some crummy easy listening station in the optical and office area.
:hammer:
Smooth jazz in the offices,
70's - 90's lens lab area,
Metallica- in the metal plating/powder coating area.:hammer:
Classic Rock in the shipping and receiving.
Whatever it takes to achieve greatness :idea:
OKOTEAM :cheers:
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Guns and Roses, AC/DC and Aerosmith....circa 1988-1990.
This is what the kids blasted away with in our Optical Products Develoment Center in Tallmadge Ohio. Back when WMMS 100.7 ruled the nations airwaves.
In 1990-1991 our Florida plant pretty much played the same but with more heavy metal...now you know why early Transitions lenses may have had hard coat chatter. Metallica blasting away at 100 decibels can cause vibrations in hard coat tanks. Of course once we found the cause of the vibrations, we fixed that right away!
Today there is no music in our offices except for ipod and mp3 players, in the plant it runs the full gamet of talk radio, r&B, every genre of rock into hip-hop/rap.
On 2nd shift you get different Asian (Thai and Vietnamese) along with latin music.
Jim Schafer
Retired From PPG Industries/
Transitions Optical, Inc.
When you win, say nothing. When you lose, say even less.
Paul Brown
No dish needed but an antenna will help. we use XM radio. If you already have it in your car you can add up six radios for 6.95 each. We don't have to listen to comercials from the local Lasik cowboy or lenscrafters.
Cheers
:cheers: Life is too short to drink cheap beer.
Jim,
The bands you decribed are known as "hair bands".
I listen to those on occasion, and haven't missed the irony that most of us that listen to hair bands are of the age where we're losing ours.
Radio - Golden Oldies, very softly, or a CD, anything from Michael Buble to Glenn Miller, or some smooooooooooooooth jazz or "intimate piano" from a collection from Costco!
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