Poll: Would it bother you if...

[mjc0961]

No, you aren't following. For whatever reason you left before you could be asked and the radio was on. You didn't announce you were leaving, and the other person didn't notice right away because they were working or maybe there is a divider between your desks but otherwise still in the same room. You have been gone for an extended period of time, not just to the restroom, supply room, meeting with your boss. You have left the building. So you radio or whatever you were listening to is turned down or off by the time you get back. That is the scenario at hand. The question is, does it bother you that it was turned off while you were gone?

You didn't ask about such a specific scenario. You did not specify that the person in question turned it on and then left before the other person had a chance to even ask. You said that I left the radio on and it was too loud, so it got turned down. Don't accuse me of "not following" when it was you who didn't flesh out the scenario you wanted to discuss well enough. I answered the given question based on what parameters you set forth and what I would have done if it was my radio: not left it on in the first place if I was leaving for such a long period of time, and yes I would find it rude if I just left for the bathroom and someone who didn't just simply ask to turn it down AND lied when I asked if the volume was okay (meaning they were aware I had turned it on) rushed over to turn it down.

If you want to have such a specific scenario, put it in the OP so people know about it from the start. Don't ask a rather open question and then accuse people of not following when their answer doesn't fit a specific scenario you were thinking of. We shouldn't have to sift through 5 pages of replies to look for more details you wanted us to be thinking of when answering: put everything in the OP so everyone sees it before answering and you'll find that a lot fewer people stray from that one specific scenario you had in mind.

Now, as for that one specific scenario you just presented me: no, that instance wouldn't bother me at all.

 

[DarthFennec]

... um no, why, would you be bothered? I think it's pretty rude to put your radio on at all if it was bothering other people, I'd have not turned it on at all or I'd be using headphones at least.

 

[Evil Moo]

No, not at all, I'd expect them to turn it off, especially if it was bothering them even slightly. It would bother me much more that I had left it on in the first place.

In fact I would be far too conscious of the noise of having a radio on in what is essentially a public area to have it on at all. And I probably wouldn't want to use headphones or anything like that, in case I inconvenience someone who needs to talk to me and I can't hear them because of them.

Sometimes I think I'm almost scared to impose myself on others in even the most insignificant and unobtrusive or indirect of ways. It is quite unhelpful at times... v_v

 

[Dango]

I'd tell them it's OK to just ask me to turn it down, but no, it wouldn't really bother me.

 

[bdcjacko]

No, you aren't following. For whatever reason you left before you could be asked and the radio was on. You didn't announce you were leaving, and the other person didn't notice right away because they were working or maybe there is a divider between your desks but otherwise still in the same room. You have been gone for an extended period of time, not just to the restroom, supply room, meeting with your boss. You have left the building. So you radio or whatever you were listening to is turned down or off by the time you get back. That is the scenario at hand. The question is, does it bother you that it was turned off while you were gone?

You didn't ask about such a specific scenario. You did not specify that the person in question turned it on and then left before the other person had a chance to even ask. You said that I left the radio on and it was too loud, so it got turned down. Don't accuse me of "not following" when it was you who didn't flesh out the scenario you wanted to discuss well enough. I answered the given question based on what parameters you set forth and what I would have done if it was my radio: not left it on in the first place if I was leaving for such a long period of time, and yes I would find it rude if I just left for the bathroom and someone who didn't just simply ask to turn it down AND lied when I asked if the volume was okay (meaning they were aware I had turned it on) rushed over to turn it down.

If you want to have such a specific scenario, put it in the OP so people know about it from the start. Don't ask a rather open question and then accuse people of not following when their answer doesn't fit a specific scenario you were thinking of. We shouldn't have to sift through 5 pages of replies to look for more details you wanted us to be thinking of when answering: put everything in the OP so everyone sees it before answering and you'll find that a lot fewer people stray from that one specific scenario you had in mind.

Now, as for that one specific scenario you just presented me: no, that instance wouldn't bother me at all.

Everyone else seemed to follow along alright.

 

[feeback06]

No, but I would expect to be told if I was bothering someone.

 

[Kamehapa]

Ya... if I had to be told I was bothering someone with my noise I would be pretty ashamed... Personal music is for personal enjoyment, so it SHOULD be turned off when you are not there, and should not be loud enough to bother people around you in the first place... If I want to listen to my music, I use my headphones...

Can't tell you how pissed I get when people decide it is perfectly appropriate to have their music Knock pictures off of my wall... BTW that's not an exaggeration.

To answer the question more directly, No turning down someones music when they carelessly left it on is perfectly appropriate. Leaving music on when you leave is NOT unless those around you also wish to listen to said music.

 

[The Apothecarry]

Nope. Not when I can stream my radio station through my Android or my computer and pop in headphones while I work. KISW FTW!!

 

[Chairman Miaow]

It would only bother me because they didn't have the levels of maturity needed to just ask me to turn it down/off.

How can they ask you if you aren't there?

I assume I didn't just turn it on and then instantly leave.

No, the point isn't when you turned it on. It is that you left it on for whatever reason when you left and someone turned it off while you were unreachable.

And why didn't they ask me before I left? The fact they waited until I was gone still says a lot to me. and if you are doing all this for the sake of the hypothetical fine, It would not annoy me.

 

[GeorgW]

No, I'm gone for a damn hour, I should have been considerate enough to shut it off myself!!

 

[tharglet]

No, not at all. In fact I'd probably apologise to my co-workers for not turning my radio off before I left in the first place.

I agree with this - if I was playing music, I'd ask if people want me to leave it on or not, tho it's not likely to happen cos I prefer to use me headset or earphones to listen to music.