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If so, you could appeal to the owners that the radio selection is having a negative effect on your customers. Tell management you've seen many clients look disgusted and that they've left in a hurry or, better yet, haven't returned as often as they did before reichwing radio started playing in the shop. Not many owners are going to consent to a radio playing that drives away business. Of course, you may lose the radio entirely, but the silence of a monastery is preferable to the blatherings of those idiots.
Good luck. Hope you can at least get the radio tuned to muzak if nothing better.
As a personal aside, I've never understood why anyone wants to impose their tastes on another in a closed situation like a workplace. The last shop I supervised had a radio/CD player I bought, but I never insisted everyone listen to just my music. We didn't play the radio -- most of us found it obnoxious -- but we played CDs all day long and everyone was encouraged to bring their own selections. Rarely did anyone complain about another's choice, but we had a rule that if anyone did we'd turn it off and not play it again. There's just too much good music available that everyone can tolerate, if not enjoy, for any one person to impose a detested piece on the rest of us. And I've gotta say, most everyone had their horizons broadened, for we all came out of it liking music we hadn't heard before.
And as I write this, I remember another shop I was in where the vice president played a couple of shock jocks each morning. The shop was loud so to hear it over the machinery it had to be played at top volume. One day, the president had a client in to check a job and the shock jocks had a fake orgasm contest going on (this was at the time of When Harry Met Sally). The client was mortified, the president incensed, and all radios were banned that afternoon. The president was a reasonable guy, however, and finally relented to the idea of individual speakers being set up at each work station. In this manner, if someone didn't want to listen to the radio, or if a client happened to be about, each station had the option to turn off the sound. Maybe you can get something like that in place.
Again, good luck. Sorry to hear you work for such an inconsiderate boor.
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