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Listening to radio/tape/cd/music/etc. while working is prohibited. To help this along, the radios are removed from our cars when they are marked. Those of us in plainclothes assignments with cars bought for the purpose tend to have radios, but we are still not supposed to turn them on. White shirts and the IA and Inspections folks who enforce this rule seem to be exempt.
Similar here in that when I'm driving with the CB radio up, the radio tends to be off. It is easier to hear that traffic without the music.
As far as my previous answer? I didn't see it as applying to work.
At work, I don't listen to any music past my set up at the computers. I find having music, from music videos going, helps keep me focused to setting up the computers.....as oppose to "dashing" off to see about some question...."just for a moment". But after set up, I turn the music off because I find it distracting.
It is rather interesting in my work place since it's the show and tell room for my organization. There's a walk pass through behind me with large windows so people can see my space, my back, the control room. It is sort of like this:
with eight computer screens and two huge TV screens over my head.
When I come in at midnight, I turn those TV's off darn quick. It is very hard to do a turn over when you are glancing up to what the previous shift has been watching. Then, they stay off till the last hour of my shift when I have to have them on for "show and tell". As I said, I find them very distracting. When I do turn them on, it's to Telemundo and Galavision. More informative and less distracting.....and I'm sure it drives those walking behind me with wonder. I do turn on the sound at times, mostly for immersion. Some of my comrades in other areas are Mexican and don't speak English that much, so between that and LEO concerns, it is to my benefit to learn Spanish.
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