"Annie is a nice and fun person to chat with, but whenever our shift starts, she starts playing her music out loud on her phone and doesn't turn it off for the entire 12-hour night. It's not uncommon for someone to play music, usually a radio station or something at a low volume, so the music itself isn't an issue ... it's her."
"She plays the same songs over and over and sings horribly off-key for the entire shift. She's really quite terrible. If she's not singing, she's loudly humming, harmonizing, or something similarly noxious and intrusive. I realize that any one of the rest of us could opt to play our own music, but for the most part, the rest of us like to quietly read or scroll on our phones during downtime."
The writer works 12-hour night shifts in small teams of three to six people. A coworker named Annie plays music out loud on her phone from the start of each shift and keeps it on for the entire 12-hour night. Others sometimes play music quietly, but Annie sings off-key, hums loudly, harmonizes, and repeats the same mid-2010s pop songs. Headphones cannot be used because of the job and the cramped workspace. The writer suspects others may be annoyed but hesitates to complain for fear of appearing like the office grump. The constant live singing disrupts quiet downtime like reading or scrolling phones.
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