six-string
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Are you deaf yet????Funny as it may seem but this kind of shit factored into me retiring early ....... I worked 12 hr shifts and we couldn't leave the premises for breaks etc... so I usually had to eat at least 2 meals there. After 30 years you get fed up....... small cafeteria, some filthy pigs ... and my biggest irritation was the farting...... guys would wait till you were eating your supper then sit beside you and start letting them rip...... then the madder you got the more the guys would ride you... then the whole place would be shitting themselves.... closest I ever came to physical violence in my life. Finally I lost it one day and told the goof if you shit near me while I'm eating you're gonna wear my food...... eventually I would take my breaks in my truck when I could.... actually started bring my acoustic with me on night shifts.
That came to an end with the no smoking on the property law cause guys were sitting in their cars to have a smoke. The final straw was cell phones. The newer employees couldn't put the fucking things down .. so the plant manager said OK ... no more personal electronic items on the shop floor...... so everybody suffers right ......I couldn't listen to my iPod for a few hours of the shift anymore.........
Anyway, I installed some Bose headphone speakers into a set of the ear muffs we wore and you couldn't even tell ...... I still used the iPod but I found it fatiguing on the ears after awhile, I guess because regular headphones are vented... the plant was so loud that when people experienced it for the first time it scared them! We made pop ,beer and the steel Campbell soup cans .... all that going through the track work made a god awful noise....... and the hiss was unbelievable, like a jet engine. Eventully I wore ear plugs and the best sound deadening muffs I could get..........